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in the Badghis near water. It is very conspicuous from the vivid green of its foliage, 
and its long pendulous spikes of pure white flowers. 
TAMARIX MACROCARPA, Bunge; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 779. 
Northern Baluchistan : 32, October 3, 11, 1884. Native names Kirri and Gaz-surkh ; 
the latter term is applied to this shrub owing to the bright red colour of the bark. It is 
a very common large shrub throughout Northern Baluchistan, in many places forming 
thickets. At Omar-sha there were several trees, six feet in cireumference, of this species, 
but all cultivated and carefully protected. 
TAMARIX GALLICA, Linn., var. MANNIFERA, Ehrenb. in Linnea, 1827, р. 270.-- Tamarix 
mannifera, Bunge, Tent. Tam. Sp. p. 63; Boiss. Fl. GEE р 776: 
Badghis: 1029, Мау 18, 1885. This was pointed out to me by a native of Kerman, 
in Persia, as being the Tamarisk that yielded a manna in that district, and there ealled 
Gaz shakar. 
TAMARIX GALLICA, Linn., var.; Hook. f. Flora British India, i. p. 248. 
Badghis: 1030, May 18, 1885. Native name Gaz-surkh ; generally spread throughout 
the Hari-rud valley and Badghis; also common in Baluchistan, where it is called Gaz- 
khera, and where the wands of this shrub are largely employed in all sorts of basket-work. 
A Tamarisk which I believe to be the above species is called by the natives Gaz- 
таги, owing to its yielding a gall; and from the stems of this are manufactured handles 
for whips. | 
TAMARIX ARTICULATA, Vahl; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 777. 
Northern Baluchistan: 31, October 3, 1884. Native name Kirri. At Omar-sha were 
several cultivated trees of this species, from 6 to 9 feet in circumference, and 40 feet 
high. On the Helmand this species is indigenous, and occurs as a large tree, charac- 
 teristically growing on mounds, and hence called by the natives Kohr-a-gaz. I 
measured one tree which was 15 feet in circumference. 
REAUMURIA HYPERICOIDES, Willd. ; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 761. 
Hari-rud valley: 1032 (608,). June б, 1885. 
REAUMURIA HYPERICOIDES, Willd., var. В. LATIFOLIA, Bieb.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 761. 
Hari-rud valley: 608, June 6, 1885; July 28,1885. Оп slopes of hill-sides, in gravelly 
soil; common. | 
| HYPERICINES. 
HYPERICIUM sCABRUM, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 796. 
Badghis: 526, May 21, 1885; Khorasan: June 18, 1885. 
Оп the margin of streams, above 3000 feet altitude; not uncommon in gravelly soil. 
HYPERICIUM HELIANTHEMOIDES, Boiss.; Fl. Or. і. p. 802. 
_ Khorasan: 1033, July 1, 1885. 
