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101- Boswellia Frereana, Birdw. "Yegaar" 



ft. (1) Leafy twig ; (2) Flowering twig, with detached flowera 

 and young fniit. 



(1) Aden, Dr. Bird wood ; received by him from Captn. 



Playfair. 



(2) From a tree planted by Captn. Playfair in the public 



gardens at Aden, and gathered there by Dr. Birdwood, 



Sept., 1868. It is the Buswellia No. .3, Oliver, FI. 



Trop. Africa, I., (1868) p. 324. 

 To this sheet (a) the foUowng note from Professor 



Fluckiger is attached : — 

 "My specimen of true Bosicdlvi pa/n/i-ifcio, collected liy Schimper in 

 the I'atsokl Country, Upper Nile, does not reseniljle the ' Molir 

 Madow,' but rather the ' Mohr Add.' I think that the 'Yegaar 

 tree' is exactly what I called in my Lehrbuch, Bosioellut sacra, 5 Aug. 

 1867." 



b. (1) Twig Avithout flowers or fruit ; received in England 



Dec, 1862. (2) Detached fruits from Captain S. B. 



Miles, May, 1871. Somali Land, Captain Playfaii- ; 



received in England, Dec, 1862. On this sheet 



D. H. has ^-ritten as follows: — 

 " E.xtract of a letter, dated Aden, 16 Nov., 1862, from Capt. Playfair 

 to Sir AV. J. Hooker : ' The " Luban Maitee," the plant producing which 

 is called "Yegaar." It grows nearest the coast, and always out of the 

 smooth limestone rock. I have never noticed any roots, properly so- 

 called, the stem growing out of an intumescence at the base, which 

 adheres to the rock as a boy's sucker to a stone. The leaves, when 

 crushed, emit a powerful aroma of the gum, and in tills respect it differs 

 from the other species.'" 

 [The leaves are glabrous and glaucous.] 



c. (1) Leafy twig and (2) detached leaves. 



(1) Victoria Gardens, Bombay, Jan., 1870; E. Samuel. 



Two or three plants between 3 and 6 feet high, mtich 

 branched, bark as Dr. Carter's, leaves corrugated. 



(2) From the gardens at The Tanks, Aden ; 21 Jan., 



1872 ; Dr. Thos. Thomson. 



102. BoswelUa No. 4. Oliver, (Fl. Trop. Africa, vol. i., 1868, p. 324). 

 rt. Leafy branchlet. 



Bunder Murayah, Somali Coimtry ; Captain Playfair ; 



received Dec, 1862. 



This sheet bears the follo\ring : — 



"Extract of letter, dated Aden, 16 Nov., 1862, from Capt. Plaj-faii 



to Sir W. J. Hooker: 'The "Mohr Add," which produce-s the gum called 



"Luban Bedowi" or "Sheheri," also growsout of the rock, but sometimes 



