Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c40.210

v3.c40.210

Shrubs and Fruits.—We have often had occasion to mention the *khair* or *karil*; the *khejra*, whose pod converted, when dried, into flour, is called *sangri*; the *jhal*, which serves to hut the shepherds, and in Jeth and Baisakh affords them fruit; the *pilu*, used as food;¹ the *babul*, which yields its medicinal gum; the *ber*, or jujube, which also has a pleasant fruit; all of which serve the camel to browse on, and are the most common and most useful of the shrubs: the *jawas*, whose expressed juice yields a gum used in medicine; the *phog*, with whose twigs they line their wells; and the alkaline plant, the *sajji*, which they burn for its ashes. Of these, the first and last are worthy of a more detailed notice.