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RHAMNEZ:. 
ZIZYPHUS VULGARIS, Lam. 
Fig.—Sibth. Fl. Gree. I. 159, # 241. Jujube (LHng.), 
Jujubier (Fr.). 
Hab.—N. India, Persia, China. The dried fruit. 
_ Vernacular.—Unniéb (Arab., Ind.), Sinjid-i-jiléni (Pers.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This is:the Jujube of Arabic and 
Persian works on Materia Medica, and is largely imported in a 
dry state both from the Persian Gulf and China. Mir 
Mohammad Husain describes it as “ the fruit of a well-known 
tree of nearly the same size as the kun4r* and olive, but 7 
having leaves a little thicker and longer than those of the 
kun4r, with one side downy. The bark, wood and fruit of the 
tree are red. The best fruit comes from Jurjan, China and 
Nipal; it should be sweet and moderately astringent, about 
the size of a dried date and with a small stone.” He gives & 
long account of the medicinal virtues of the Jujube, from 
which we gather that he regards it as a suppurative, expecto- 
rant, and purifier of the blood. Pliny (15, 14,) mentions 
Zizyphus as an exotic fruit coming from Syria, more like a 
berry than an apple. Sibthorp informs us that it is called in 
modern Greek zadioupi, and is probably the zadlovpos of Diosco- 
rides.t The bark of the tree is used to clean wounds and sores, 
the gum in certain affections of the eyes, and the leaves when 
chewed are said to destroy the power of the tongue to appre- 
ciate the taste of disagreeable medicines. The French prepare a 
Paté de jujubes by extracting 5 parts of jujubes in sufficient 
water to obtain 35 parts of infusion, in which are dissolved 
gum Arabic 30 parts and sugar 20 parts; the solution is eva- 
porated, two parts of orange flower water added, kept slowly. 
boiling for twelve hours, and then poured into moulds. 
‘* Kunar or Kinar, Zizyphus Jujuba, or wild Jujube, a generative tree of 
__ Persia from which the first spark of fire was obtained. (Bundehesh, cap. 15.) 
: 2 Tt Dios. Ins 106, : 
