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to keep them healthy. And they feed Camels with 
it, who love it naturally. 
Remarks. 
This Shrub, which is fometimes large, fometimes 
fmall, is moft commonly found along high Roads, 
and in dry low Places of its Climate. As its Branches, 
which are llender and brittle, fpontaneoufly bend 
downward, and form a thick Tuft, this makes it 
generally refemble a great Bulb, which takes up a 
good deal of Ground in moft Places, where it grows 
naturally. It delights in the hotteft and drieft Places, 
lyich as thofe adjacent to the Rerfic Gulph, and 
perhaps more fo than Palm-Trees : Wherefore I doubt 
of there being any growing in the Countries that lie 
to the Eaft of the Gulph . And accordingly I have 
met with none, either? in the Neighbourhood of 
Surat , or in the Kingdom of Bengal, where there 
are regular rainy Seaions every Year. 
1 fhould rather believe, it is more likely to be 
found in the Deferts of Africa , on this Side of our 
Tropic 5 thofe being proper Places for it, and where 
it rains feldomer than in any other Part of the Globe. 
Its Leaves have frequently Excrefccncesof different 
Sizes and Shape, round, oval, and fometimes very 
large. They are the Work of thofe flying Infects, 
which commonly abound in thefe Parts. 
The Inhabitants of the Gulph call this Shrub by 
the Name oiTchuch. Perhaps its Nature would not 
allow it to grow in Lands far diftant from the Sea, 
no more than the Sea-Rlants , to which this Sur- 
name is given for that Reafon. 
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