ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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kind of tree, whatever it may be, was rare, and it 

 may strengthen the conjecture that they were meant for 

 introduced Baobab trees. 



I can make nothing else of these stumps of trees. 

 An outhne of one of these is given in fig. 15. 



Fig. 15. — Two trees like this on ba, Ninirood Gallery, British Museum, 

 reproduced in pi. 33, Layard's ist Series. 



Finally there is another tree shown on Layard's 

 Monuments. Nothing can be made of it. It may be 

 a plum tree, it may be an apple tree, or something 

 else. Both these fruit trees were indigenous in the 

 regions south of the Caucasus, and the vicinity of Persia. 



This completes the Flora of the Assyrian Monu- 

 ments. 



