TAMARISCINE A. 161] 
the puncture of an insect. According to Ehrenberg, the 
Insect which attacks the Tamarisk is the Coceus manniparus. 
The name Gazangabfn signifies Tamarisk-honey, and is used, 
confer. Pharmacographia, p. 371). _ This account agrees with 
hat found in Persian works on Materia Medica, which 
lescribe Gazaugabin as the produce of several trees. Rich 
Residence in Koordistan, Vol. I., p- 142,) describes the 
ollection of Gazangabin, ealled by the Koords Ghezo, by 
icking the leaves of the trees, letting them dry, and then - 
ently threshing them over a cloth. The season commences 
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ing thickets: the manna forms in July and is shaken 
a cloth. 
Chemical composition.—Tamarisk manna from Sinai, exam- 
aed by Berthelot, was a thick yellow syrup, and was found 
consist of cane sugar, inverted sugar (levulose and glucose) 
extrin and water, the last constituting one-fifth of the whole. 
L specimen of Persian Gazangabin yielded to Ludwig, 
<trin, uncrystallizable sugar and organic acids. The galls 
ontain as much tannic acid as oak-galls and are readily pur- 
ased by manufacturers when offered for sale in Europe. — 
_Commerce.—Gazangabin is imported into Bombay from 
ersia. Value Re. 4 per lb. ; it is kept in most druggists’ 
ps. The galls are sometimes abundant ; at others un- — 
inable. Value, Rs. 12 to 13 per maund of 37% lbs. 
amarix articulata, Vahi. Symb. ii., 48, t. 32. The 
The leaves found in the Gazangabin imported into India are 
f Cotoneaster, as may be seen by a comparison with 
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