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description of the fruit of Balanites (Agialid), and there can be little 
doubt that his description was drawn up from a specimen which he 
himself had collected in Senegal in 1750, and identified with Agihalid 
of Prosper Alpinus. This specimen is the type of Agialida 
senegalensis, Van Tiegh, (Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 9, vol. iv. p. 232). 
ough Agialid, Adans., is the earliest name for the genus under 
consideration, it does not seem to have been adopted by other 
botanists until 1891, when Kuntze revived it in the modified form 
Agialida (Rev. Gen, vol. i. p. 163). The name Agialid was used 
by Hiern in 1896 (Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. vol. i. p. 119) and the form 
Agialida by Van Tieghem in 1906 (Ann, Se. Nat. ser. 9, vol. iv. 
p. 223). Most botanists, however, prefer to adopt the later generic 
name Balanites, which was accompanied by an excellent description 
and figure, and has now been in use for a century (Rep. Bot. Congr. 
Vienna, 1905, p. 245). 
who pointed out that the Indian plant described by Roxburgh 
under the name Ximenia aegyptiaca (Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, vol. it. p. 
253) differed from the African in the petals being villous on the 
i i . vol. i, p. 522). 
perhaps only a variety of that species (FI. Brit. Ind. vol. 1. p. 52 | 
In 7896 Siacine ee only a single species of Balanites, 
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