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_ Chakradatta.) Tn Mahometan works, under the names of Haj 
_ and Khér-i-shutr, or camel thorn, a description of the plants 
_ willbe found. They are considered to be aperient, attenuant 
_ and alexipharmic. A poultice, or fumigation with them is re- 
' commended to cure piles, the expressed juice is applied to opaci- © 
_ ties of the cornea, and is directed to be snuffed up the nose as 
_ @remedy for megrim. An oilis prepared with the leaves as an 
4 'sonrces of manna. In the Bengal Dispensatory and Pharma- 
_ copeia of India it is also noticed on this account. Under the 
_ name of Taranjabin Mahometan writers describe Alhagi manna. 
Mir Muhammad Husain says that it is collected in Khorasan, 
_ Mawarunnahr, Kurjistan, and Hamadan by cutting the plants 
* and shaking them in a cloth to separate the manna. According 
to Aitchison the country round Rui-Khauf is famous for this — 
Manna. An inferior kind is made by dissolving what still 
adheres in water and evaporating it to a suitable consistence. 
He describes it as aperient and cholagogue, more digestible 
than Shirkisht, expectorant, a good purifier of the blood from 
a corrupt and adust humours when given in diet drinks such as 
_ barley water, &c.; diuretic, and with milk, fattening and 
_ aphrodisiac. In Bombay fine clean white samples of Taranja- 
a bin are sometimes obtainable during the season of import 
_ {November to January), but unless very carefully preserved 
it soon spoils in the moist climate of the Western Coast, 
running together, and becoming a brown sticky mass. 
The dried plant of A. Maurorum is always obtainable under the 
name of Jawdasa, and the ripe fruit with manna adhering to oe 
under the name of Taranjabin, In the Concan ,the plant ne 
smoked aloug with Black Datura, Tobacco, and Ajwén seeds 
aS a remedy for asthma. ? 
Description.—A. Maurorum is a low shrub, armed with 
ious subpatent hard pungent spines, } to 1 inch long j leaves 
mple, drooping from the base of the spines or branches, obinn, 
