TAA i.3.2.34

                                                                                                  26.

               Zizyphus Spins-Christi Willd. [Rhamnaceae]; Christ's Thorn.

          This plant occurs in Egypt, Sudan, dry regions of Northern 

Africa from Mauritania to Arabia (Herb. Kew.). It is common in 

Egypt, especially Upper Egypt, where it as known as Nabbûkh <(Carter).>

          The specimens are stones of the fruits, and some entire fruits. 

The latter are, naturally, shrunken, and the dried skin and remains 

of the pulp are friable. As fragments, also, of these parts are 

present, it is quite possible that all the stones may represent fruits 

that were entire when placed in the tomb.

          The fruits are eaten by natives in x[?] the region of the Upper 

Nile (Woen.), and the unripe fruit is stated to have medicinal 

properties (Drag.).

                  nos. 146(?); 614B; 532, 534, 504; 454, 476, 573C; 

                  369, 426, 429, 470, 527a, 528, 530, 542, 544, 567, 573B; 
                  401, 355 one stone; 441, 342, 562, 506.

                                                      apparently also 439, 473, 531 
                                                                       (see MS. note p.3)