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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 A 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. dioiea, Roxb., h.f.b.i., i. 249, Roxb. 274. 
Sans. : — Pichoola. 
Vern. : — Lei ; pilchi (Pb.); Gaz., lao (Sindh. t ; 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. 
