204 Brigade- Surgeon J. Yj. T. Aitchison's JVoles on Products 



the trees average 6 to 9 feet in circumference (I measured 

 one 15 feet), and about 40 feet in height. 



Tamarix gallica, Linn. TAMARisciNEiE. 



The common Tamarisk, gaz-mazu, gaz-hera, gaz-surkh. Is 

 a common shrub over the whole country, well known to 

 yield a gall, but this is not collected in these parts; it is 

 chiefly employed for fuel and in basket-work of all sorts, 

 from the coarse material required to build houses, on the 

 wattle and dab principle, or in the construction of dams 

 across rivers, to the ordinary baskets required in household 

 use. There is a superstitious regard for having the handles 

 of whips made from this species, owing to the bright red 

 colouring of the bark, which much resembles, but is higher 

 in colour, than that of the Almond, Prunus Amygdalus. 



Tamarix gallica, var. Mannifera, Ehrenb. TamarisOine/e. 



This plant yields a manna, and hence its name gaz-shakar. 

 The manna it yields is called shakar, gaz-angabin, gaz-anjahin. 

 I collected the specimens in the Badghis, from their having 

 been pointed out to me by a native as the plant which 

 yielded the manna. I myself could not distinguish between 

 this variety and Tamarix fJALLiCA, but the native certainly 

 did, as the specimens subsequently proved to be the variety 

 MANNIFERA at the Herbarium at Kew. The manna from this 

 plant is said only to be collected in South-Eastern Persia, 

 in the district of Kerman, where it is obtained in large 

 quantities and exported in all directions. 



Tamarix macrocarpa, Bunge. Tamariscine^. 



The red Tamarisk, gaz-surkh. A common shrub, some- 

 times occurring as a good-sized tree, with the young bark 

 very red. 



Tamarix tetragyna, Ehrenh. Tamariscine-e. 



The saline Tamarisk, shora-gaz, gaz-shora. So named 

 either for its having an unusually large amount of saline 

 deposit on its leaves, or from being employed in the manu- 

 facture of Barilla. 



