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Fig. 14 gives an outline of it. 



Fig. 14. — From No. ^^, basement, British Museum: 

 (a) with flowers in bud, [b) with flowers expanded. 



THE BAOBAB? {Adansonia digitatd). 



There is one other plant on the Monuments, the 

 identification of which appears to be hopeless. It is 

 on Nos. 6 and 7, Nimrood Gallery. 



There are two specimens near each other. The plant 

 consists of a thick and short stumpy stem, with two 

 thick stumpy side branches, all three ending in short 

 and wavy branches. At first I conjectured it might be 

 a Euphorbia, but there is nothing like it in Boissier's 

 Flor. Orient. It may not impossibly have been intended 

 for a Baobab tree {Adansonia digitata) shown in its 

 leafless period, which is the more striking. The Baobab 

 is found in the Soudan and South-East Africa, but there 

 are several old trees of it in Lucknow, and in Salsette, 



