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of the Afghan indigenous tree, by Colonel Miller, the 

 Inspector-General of Police, in his garden to the front of his 

 house ; and in Kashmir I saw one immense tree at Serinagar, 

 this was covered with fine fruit, showing that other trees 

 must also have been in the vicinity. This tree, from the size 

 of its fruit and the method of its growth, I believe to have 

 been raised from the seed of the cultivated form of the 

 PiSTACiA VERA. I do not scc why, with a very little trouble, 

 the cultivation of the Pistacio should not be carried out 

 with success along the whole of our north-west frontier, from 

 Abbotabad to Quetta. 



Pistacio — the tree and nut of Pistacia vera. 

 Pistalik — 



The term applied to those parts of the country that are 

 covered with natural forests of the Pistacia vera, as the term 

 Jagdalak or Jigdalik is applied to the celebrated pass into 

 Eastern Afghanistan from India, owii;g to the presence there 

 once of a forest of the Elseagnus. 



Pisum sativum, Linn. Leguminos/e. 



The common Field-pea, mash. Is cultivated here and there, 

 but not extensively, and not in any quantity in one place. 

 A pea, called chish-khdm, was also cultivated in fields at 

 Meshad. 



Pitch, or Tar, hdr, i^oghan-i-sia- — 



Is artificially prepared by the destructive distillation of 

 goat and sheep dung ; this is in great request as a remedy 

 to be applied to sheep and other cattle that may suffer from 

 sores or ulcers. A natural mineral product found in the 

 Kohistan range goes by the name of momldi, or 77iumidl ; this 

 is highly valued as an internal remedy for many complaints. 



Plain — a flat expanse of land, maiddn, hamun, 



dasht ; of clay, ^ja^. 

 Plane — -the Oriental Plane, Platanus orientalis, 



PlantagO, species, PLANTAGINEyB. 



The grass-like herb Plantain. The seeds, hdrtang, hdrang, 

 ispaghul, ispdrza, sebush, sepush, shlhavi-pdra. The seeds of 

 several species are employed in medicine for their nmcil3,ginous 



