N. 0. TAMAKISCINEJE. 139 



The manna : — Gazangabin and Gazanjabin (Arab., Pers., 

 and Bomb.) 



Habitat: — Throughout India, near rivers, and along the 

 sea-coast. 



A glaucous, gregarious, small tree or shrub. Bark rough 

 greenish-brown, that of young branches reddish-brown, 

 smooth, with small whitish specks. Wood whitish, occasionally 

 with a red tinge, open and coarse-grained, fairly hard and 

 tough, but not strong. Pores small and moderate-sized, numer- 

 ous, more so in spring wood. Medullary rays numerous, broad, 

 but short (Gamble). Annual rings distinct (Brandis). Leaves 

 minute, not sheathing, apex acute, patent or loosely appressed. 

 Flowers mostly bisexual, pentamerous, white or pink, crowded 

 in long slender spikes, collected in dense panicles at the ends 

 of branches and forming a large irregular mass of flowers. 

 Bracts shorter than flowers. Disk slightly 5-or 10-crenate ; 

 filaments not dilated at base ; styles short, stigma often almost 

 sessile. Capsule -ps in. long, more than twice the length 

 of the withered sepals supporting it. Flowering time, August 

 to February (Brandis). 



Parts used : — The galls and manna. 



Uses : — The galls are employed medicinally by the natives 

 as an astringent. Dr. Stocks speaks highly of the astringent 

 properties of the galls, and from personal experience recommends 

 a strong infusion of them as a local application to foul, sloughing 

 ulcers and phagedenic buboes. By the natives they are also 

 administered internally in dysentery and diarrhoea (Ph. Ind., 

 p. 29.) 



The Hakims consider the manna to be detergent, aperient 

 and expectorant (Dymock.) 



122. T. dioica, Roxb., h.f.b.i., i. 249, Roxb. 274, 



Sans. : — Pichoola. 



Vern. :— Lei; pilchi (PI).); Gaz., lao <Sindh.) ; Lal-jhau 

 'B. & H.) 



Habitat :— From Sindh and the Punjab to Assam and the 

 Western Peninsula, near and in the bed of rivers, and on the 

 sea-coast. 



