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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Morula Adenensis. A systematic Account, with Descriptions, of 

 the Flowering Plants hitherto found at Aden. By Thomas 

 AndeesoI, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., H.M.'s Bengal Medical Service. 

 [Read November 1, I860.] 

 Much attention has of late years been directed to the military 

 station of Aden, owing to its rapidly increasing importance, both 

 in a political and commercial point of view ; and now that it is 

 visited weekly by the large steamers in their course to India, 

 China, and Australia, its name has become as familiar as that of 

 any of our Eastern settlements. From its commanding position 

 at the entrance to the Ked Sea, and from its forming an indis- 

 pensable link in the chain of communication with our Eastern 

 Empire, the importance of the settlement will increase with the 

 development of our Indian possessions. 



Besides the interest attaching to Aden as an isolated stronghold 

 of Britain, and as the probable starting-point whence European 

 civilization will spread over the rich territory of Arabia Felix, its 

 physical peculiarities have always attracted considerable attention ; 

 and the anomalous appearance of its rugged, barren pinnacles of 

 rock leaves an indelible impression on the memory of its nume- 

 rous visitors, while a closer examination of its narrow valleys, and 

 of the steep cliffs that almost encircle them, discloses a strange, 

 though' scanty, assemblage of plants and insects. Indeed, so 



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