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FLORA OF THE 



globular, very sweet, and green-spotted externally, on 

 a pale yellow ground, called Chitla Kharbuza. 



From all this it would follow that, although the 

 Assyrians may have been acquainted with the water- 

 melon, it is more probable that the one the artists 

 represented on the sculptures was some fine kind of 

 Cucuniis melo, such as are still grown in Persia at 

 the present day. 



THE PINE TREE {Pinus Brutia). 

 On several bas-reliefs of the Monuments ^ there is 

 a pine tree, which occurs both on level and hilly 

 ground. It is shown in two forms in fig. ii. 



Fig. II. — Pine trees : — 



((/) As usually seen on the Monuments, from pi. 8i, and [b) from 

 pi. 46, Layard's Monuments, ist Series. 



^ Numbers 51, 52, 53, 54) and 55) Kouyunjik Gallery, and numbers 45 and 

 121, basement, British Museum. 



