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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. 



Name from Pliny. 



Persica or Peach* 

 Cuci 



■{ 



Spina ^^gyptia, 

 Acanthus of 

 dotus and Strabo 



Quercusf, Oak. 



(Persea) 



,, the r 

 Hero--| 

 abo - [_ 



Oliva, Olive - | 

 Prunus iEgyptia 



Papyrus or Biblus -\ 



Lotus - - -j 



Punicum malum or 

 I Granatum, Pome- 

 granate. 



Ub. c. 



13. 9. 

 15. 13. 



13. 9. 



I 



13. 

 24. 



13. 

 13. 



13. 9. 

 15. 3. 



13. 10. 



9. 11. 1 

 11. 12. J 



Botanical Name. 



13. 11. 

 24. 11. 

 13.§ 17. 

 24. 2. 

 13. 19. 



12. 



Amygdalus Persica. 



(Arab. Khokh.) 

 Cucifera Thebaica. 



(Arab. Dom.) 



Mimosa Nilotica. 

 (Arab. So7it.) 



Quercus 



{ 



Balanites ^Egyptiaea. 

 (Arab. Egleeg. fruct 

 Lalob.) 



Olea Europaea. 

 (Arab. Zaytoon.) 



Rhamnus X Spina Christi 



or R. Nabeca, Forsk. 



(Arab. Nebk.) 

 Cyperus papyrus.) 



{ Ar <ih. Berdi?) 

 Nymphaea Lotus. 



(Arab. Beshnin.) 

 Punica Granatum. 



(Arab. Roomdn.) 



* Pliny appears to have confounded the Peach and Persea together in lib. xii. 

 9. In lib. XV. 13. he is evidently speaking of the peach. 



-j- In this sentence, " Circa Thebas haec (spina) ubi et quercus, et Persica et oliva," 

 on the authority of Theophrastus (who says, lib, iv.3. "Silvaingens circa agruniThe- 

 banum est,ubietrobur, et Persea, et olea,") the Persica should be Persea; supposed 

 to be the Balanites iEgyptiaca. The trees now growing at Thebes are principally the 

 Mimosa Nilotica, Tulh, Sellem, and Albida ; Ochradenusbaccatus; and sycomore. 

 The wood Pliny mentions was at some distance from the Nile : but there must 

 be an error in his expression, 300 stades (about 37 miles) from the river. I 

 have introduced the Persea as well as the Peach. The former, if it be really the 

 Egleeg, is now only found in Southern Ethiopia, and in the deserts south of the 

 latitude of Ombos and Esouan ; and indeed it appears, even in the time of the 



