a half in circumference. Captain Stewart, the gentleman with 

 whom I was travelling, remarked that it had a striking resemblance 

 to the broom, but it did not, we were informed, bear a yellow flower. 

 The leaves were small and narrow, and underneath we saw the gez 

 spread all over the tender bi-anches like white uneven threads, with 

 innumerable little insects creeping slowly about. 



These little creatures appeared to derive their subsistence from 

 the leaves and young bark of the bush they inhabit; and this is the 

 opinion of the country people. They are either three distinct species 

 of insects, or one in three different stages of existence : one kind is 

 perfectly red, and so diminutive as to be scarcely perceptible ; the 

 second, dark and very like a common louse, thous-h not so lar^e ; 

 and the third, exactly like a very small fly. They are extremely 

 dull and sluggish, and are found lying or creeping about between the* 

 bark of the qavan and the gez. The peasants, as well as the 

 inhabitants of Khonsarj were decidedly of opinion that this curious 

 substance is the production of these minute animals, as neither the 

 insect nor the get are found on any other tree in the neighbourhood ; 

 nor can we be allowed to imagine it may be a vegetable gum, as no 

 appearance of any gummy liquid oozing from fissures in the bark 

 of the bush could be observed on the closest examination. The people 

 Avho are engaged in the collection of this curious article continue 

 their occupation every thh'd daj ior twenty-eight days during 

 September, A journey, which I subsequently made to Baghdad, con- 

 Vmced me that the gezis not exclusively confined to this district, but is 

 found in the ranere of mountains runnm/^r throiigh Koordistan, 

 dividing Persia from Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, where it is called 

 manna by the Armenians, and said to be exported in quantities 

 through Erzeroom to Constantinople. (JBy Captain B. Frederick^ 

 from the " Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay,''^ Sep- 

 tember 2Qth, 1813.) 



^oie, — The ^avan is Tamarix tallica, var. mannlfera^ Ehrenb., and the aphis, 

 Which feeds upon it and produces the geZy is the Coccus jnanniparus of Ehrenberg. 

 The name G-eaaugabeen is loosely applied by the Persians to the true mauna 

 obtained from Coionemter mmmnlana m Korasan, the correct name of which ia 

 ^hii'Uisht. 



TERNSTRCEMIACEiE. 



Camellia theifera, Griff, 

 Tea seeds contain 35 per (ient. of a somewhat thinly fluid, taste- 

 less, inodorous oil, of a straw to amber colour, which resembles olive 



