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2. The Plane, platanus Orlentalis, Deleib, is found, but feems 
rather to have been brought from Egypt, than indigenous. 
3. Sycamore of Egypt, Ficus Sycomorus^ Gimmeiz^ a few 
near Cobbe ; faid to be much more common to the fouthward. 
I did not obferve that it produced any fruit. « 
4. Nebbek Ar. Paliurus Athenm. Of this there are two 
fpecies in Dar-Fur. They term the largeft Nebbek-el-arab. 
There is a difference in their fruit, as well as in their external 
appearance. The one is a bufh, with leaves of dark green, not 
very different from thofe of the ivy, but much thinner. It 
appeared to be the fame I had feen in the gardens of Alexandria. 
The other a tree, growing to confiderable fize, but having both 
the leaves and fruit fmaller, and the fruit of darker colour, and 
fomewhat different flavour. Both of them equally thorny. 
The natives eat the fruit frefh or dry; for it dries on the tree, 
and fo remains great part of the winter months. In that flate 
it is formed into a pafte of not unpleafant flavour, and is a 
portable provifion on journies. 
5. Heglig or Hejlij, Ar. This tree is about the fame fize as 
the one laft mentioned, and is faid to be a native of Arabia, 
though I have feen it only in Fur. — The leaf is fmall, and the 
fruit it bears is of an oblong form, about the fize of a. date. 
Colour brown, tinctured with orange ; dry, and of a vifcous 
quality. The nucleus is large in proportion to the fruit, which 
adheres to it with great tenacity. This is alfo formed into a 
pafle, but of no agreeable flavour. It is however eaten by the 
Arabs, 
