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16. Caffia fophera p. Caffia or Wild Senna. 
This tree is cultivated in the gardens at Cairo, 
and by the Arabs called Sopher. 
1 7. Caffia fiftula 1. The Caffia Fiftula. 
I have feen and defcribed this plant in a fertile 
Plain, near the canal, which leads trom the Nile to 
Alexandria. There were feveral of them growing 
amongfl: the Date-trees, being about twelve feet 
high, and from two to three fpans thick. It flow- 
ers in May. The Arabs call it Hearfciambar. 
18. Caffia Ketfchta. 
This plant is a native of India and Arabia, but 
is very feldom to be met with in the gardens of 
Egypt, where I faw only one tender lhrub of it. 
1 have been informed that the fruit of it is full of a 
ffiickifh white juice. The Arabians call it Ketfchta. 
19. Punica granatum r . Pomegranate-tree. 
I met with a variety of this. The ftem was 
htialler than in the common fort; the leaves greener, 
y nd the flower barren. The inhabitants of Cyprus 
c alled it Balauftia, and ffiewed it me as a lingular 
tf ee, becaufe it bore no fruit, for which they could 
«ot account, being ignorant of the myiteries of 
^‘tture. 
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