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T ereniabin falls fuper Lap ides ; but * 'Deufingius fays 
that it ought to be read, fuper Alhagi j and that his 
Tranflators were led into this Miltake, from the 
Refemblance betwixt Al-Hhagier (the Word in 
the Arabic Text, and which ftgnifies a kind of 
thorny Plant,, luch as the Alhagi is faid to be) to 
Al-Hagio. 
It is therefore evident, that the Manna T erf cum, 
now before us, is the T ereniabin , Terenjabin , Terreejen- 
bin, or more properly, the Terengjabin , of the old 
Arabians , and of Clufius * the Trungibin , or Trunf 
chibil , of the later, of Rauwolfmd Tournefort y very 
probably, the Manna mafichina orientalis of Mat- 
thiolus and Bauhine j as it is the Maftichina and 
Alhagina of Geojfroy ; tho’ this Author makes the 
Tereniabin a Species of Liquid Mama ■)-, in Com- 
plaifance to his Countryman Bellonius j who, tho 1 
in general a diligent Obferver, yet, in this Cafe, 
was milled by the Caloyers , or Monks of Mount 
Sinai. 
Bellonius fays, in his Obfervations J, and more 
largely in his Treatife de Arbor ibus ferpetua Fronde 
/ virentibus, that thefe Caloyers colled: a kind of liquid 
Manna, which they call Tereniabin b that this Species 
was known in the Shops at Cairo by the fame 
Name j and that this is the Mel rofcidum of Galen , 
and the Mel cedrinum of Hippocrates . 
I think it is very plain, that Bellonius was mif- 
taken in the firft Part of his Affertion, from what 
* Tratf. de Manna, p. iq. -f TraSl. de Mat . Med . 
Tom. II. p.587. J Bdlonii Objerv. apud Cluf. p.129. 
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