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[ Enclosure. | - : 
Nore on an Article of Food prepared from the Flowers of “ Phog " 
(Calligonum polygonoides). 
Exrracts from Dr. J. L. Stewart’s Punjab Plants, p. 183. 
Calligonum. polygonoides, L. Vernacular Trans-Indus, balanja 
berwaja, tatuke, Cis-Indus, phok, phog ; flowers phogalli. This which- 
Mozaffargarh for some miles. It is also common near the southern 
and eastern skirts of Shaikh Budin, and occurs near Rajanpur in the’ 
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southern Trans-Indus. also saw it in Sind, * * Cis- 
Sutlej, and in the southern Punjab. The flowers, having fallen off, are 
swept up from the and used largely as food (not, however, 
Trans-Indus apparently). Coldstream states that in Mozzaffargarh they 
Exrracts from Dr. J. L. Stewart’s MS. Forest Flora of Northern 
India. 
‘ommon on plains, locally in various arid parts of the Punjab, Cis- 
and Trans-Indus, south of a line and somewhat north of the latitude of 
Lahore; most abundant of all for some way west of Mozzaffaigarh, 
where it constitutes in places half of the larger vegetation, and except 
after showers there is almost no herb us growth, Salvadora oleoides 
being the other half.‘ Also occurs in Sind along bases of bills, and 
although it has not been got in Ferozpur or Harriana, east of the Sutlej, 
is noted to be one of the most abundant and characteristic plants of the 
Arabia, Syria, Armenia, Egypt, Algeria, and the Canaries 
G t riously, often on hummocks of heavier soil, 
spreading, 
igh, rather showy and peculiar-looking when fresh and in flower 
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