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In connection with this plant and its manna a very 
interesting accoun its occurrence was brought to light in 
Thomas Holland, forwarded to the Reporter on Economic Pro- 
ducts samples of earth sugar collected in Seistan by a member of 
Col. (now Sir Henry) McMahon’s Mission, and the samples 
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region liable to inundation. The note proceeds: ‘‘ On the 17th 
May 1905, when Zillahdar Amir Singh was crossing the dry 
bed of the inundated area near Chah Muhammad Reza, the 
Baluchis showed him a sticky, saccharine, treacle-like substance 
in the cracks of the ground. This ground had been under 
several feet of water in the summer of 1903, but it became 
dry at the end of 1903 or beginning of 1904. The people called 
this sticky viscous substance shira-i-zamin (sugar of the soil), 
and they said it was found on lands which had been flooded 
owing to atmospheric exposure. 
From Mr. Ward’s note we gather the following further 
information about the subject. There are two kinds of tama- 
risk growing near Seistan, named shora gaz and lees-gaz. Shora 
gaz is so called because it is weak and brittle, and its branches 
either large or smail can be broken by the hand without any 
great effort. Lees-gaz, on the contrary, is stronger and harder, 
and its branches are not easily broken. A flowering specimen of 
the spring floods, some water reached this tract and filled up 
the deeper portion of the bed down to Ziarat-i-Pir Kisri. Three 
