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8. Ceratonla Siliqua, Charoh, 
9. Solanum fandlum, nightlhade, Beidinjan^ or Melingdn^ 
brought originally from Egypt, and ufed for food. 
10. El Henne^ from Egypt, growing into ufe. 
1 1. Sophar^ Ar. Caffia fophera, wild fenna, native, and grows 
in plenty after the rains. 
12. Sunt^ Mimofa Nilotica, in great quantity. — It is from this 
tree, which is alfo called Seidl^ that the gum, brought to Egypt 
by the caravans, is chiefly gathered. There are alfo found the 
trees called by Bruce Ergett Dimmo^ and Ergett-el-Kurun, and 
the Farek^ Bauhinia Acuminata of the fame writer. 
13. A kind of legumen called Ful^ bean. It is not much ufed 
for food, but as an ornament by the women, being ftrung in 
the form of beads, when quite dry, at which time it is very hard. 
It is alfo ufed as a weight of four or five grains. 
14. A beautiful legumen, of a fcarlet colour, with a black fpot 
at the point of attachment to its cyft. It is called in Dar-Fur 
Shii/h ; is about the fize of a fmall pea, hard and polifhed ; grows 
on a plant refembling tares j is ftrung and ufed as an orna- 
ment by the women. 
15. The common onion. Allium cepe, Bajfal^ Ar. is abund- 
antly fupplied in Dar-Fur, but inferior in fize, tafte, and colour, 
to that of Egypt. 
16. Gar- 
