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''Leguminosae''. CAMELSTHORN. MANNAPLANT.
The Orient and central Asia. This indigenous shrub furnishes a manna by exudation<ref>Don, G. ''Hist. Dichl. Pls.'' 2:310. 1832.</ref>.
== ''Alhagi maurorum'' Medic. ==
PERSIAN MANNA-PLANT.
North Africa to Hindustan. Near Kandahar and Herat, manna is found and collected on the bushes of this desert plant at flowering time after the spring rains<ref>Brandis, D. ''Forest Fl.'' 145. 1876.</ref>. This manna is supposed by some to have been the manna of Scripture but others refer the manna of Scripture to one of the lichens.
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