170 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



edition, 1884, doubts its being indigenous in Baluchistan 

 where Stocks found it, and also states that " Anglo-Indian 

 botanists do not allow it to be indigenous east of the Indus." 

 He must have overlooked the Forest Flora of North-west 

 and Central India, p. 241, 1874, and probably was misled by 

 the account of its distribution as given in Flora Indica, 

 pt. V. p. 581, 1879. Thomson considered it indigenous as far 

 east as Kamaon. In the trade the small Pomegranates are 

 andr-dana, whereas the cultivated fruit is always annr. 



The gardens of Anar-dara are celebrated for the very fine 

 pomegranates they yield ; the finest are as large as a child's 

 head, with a very thin papery rind, and an almost seedless 

 grain. These are exported in immense quantities to 

 Afghanistan, India, and Persia. The rind of the fruit is 

 employed in dyeing and tanning leather, for which purpose 

 the poor unripe cultivated fruit, or much more largely the 

 fruit of the indigenous shrub, is collected. 



Put — -j^i^ — steel. 

 Purze — tinder. 

 Pusht — i^llk^j — the back. 

 Puz — -j^j — or htiz — the snout of an animal. 

 Puza — s;^,. — wool ; the pile of cloth ; the down 

 upon leaves. 



Pyrus communis, Lwm. Rosacea. 



The Pear, or its fruit ,amrud ; a grafted variety of the 

 fruit, ndspati, ndshpcdi, ndk. The pear is commonly cultivated 

 in all orchards for its fruit ; this is usually poor in quality, 

 owing to the tree being raised either from scions, or self-sown. 

 The grafted trees, which are met with in the better class of 

 orchards, bear a large variety of the fruit ; this is said to be 

 much more common to the east of Herat, from whence great 

 quantities of the fruit are exported. At Meshad some of 

 the pears were very fine, and well worth the notice of our 

 gardeners. 



Pyrus, species. Rosacea. 



An indigenous pear, is called dmrucha, from its yielding a 

 smaller fruit than the cultivated garden tree does. This 

 small fruit is collected, dried, and made into flour to be mixed 



