THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF ARABIA. 
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Plants described by Scbenk. 
Scheuk, A. — Plantarum, species quas in Itinere per Aegyptuni 
G. H. de Schubert, M. Erdle et J. R. Roth colligerunt. 
Monachii, 1840. 
I83t. — Botta, Paul Emile. — A French botanist and physician to Mehemet 
Ali. He was conrmissioned by .the Museum of Natural History of 
Paris. He arrived at Hodeida in 1837 and pushed bis researches 
further into the western highla^ids of Yemen than Forskall had done. 
He ascended Mt. Sabor behind Tais, famous for its wealth of vegeta- 
tion. 
Botta, P. E. — Relation d’un voyage dans I’Jemen, entropris en 
1837 pour le Museum d’histoire naturelle de Paris. Paris, 1841. 
Becaisne, J. — Observations sur quelques nouveaux genres et 
espies de plantes de P Arabic heureuse. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, 
IV, p. 65. 
Becaisue, J. — Plantes de PArabie heureuse recueillies par P. E. 
Botta. Paris, 1841. (Arch, du Museum, II, 89-199.) 
Roth, J. R. (Dr.), M. Erdle and G, H. de Schuhert visited in 1837 
Arabia Petraea, Palestine and* the Libanon. Roth was at Aden in 
1847. He returned later on to* Palestine where he died. Plants 
at Kew. 
Schenk, August. — Plantarum sp^ies in itinere per ^gyp 
turn, Arabiam et Syriam .... coUectae. Monachii, 1840. 
Schenk, August. — Plantarum species quas in itinere per ^Egyptum, 
Arabiam Petraeam ; . . . G. H. de Schubert, M. Erdle et J. R. Roth 
colligerunt. Monachii, 1840. 
Roth, J. R.— Ueber die Halbinsel Aden. Miinch. Gelehrt. Anz. 
XXYI (1848) col. 313-318; Miinch. Bull. Akad. (184b) col. 137- 
142. 
Roth, J. R. — Notice on the Peninsula of Aden. Hook. Journ. 
Bot. I (1849) 216-19. 
1838.— Wellsted, James Raymond (1805-1842).— Surveyor and traveller. 
In 1830 he was appointed second lieutenant of the East India Com- 
pany’s ship Palinums, then engaged in making a survey of the Gulf of 
Akaba and the northern part of the Red Sea. They then surveyed 
the southern coast of Arabia (1833) and Oman (1835). His books 
contain many botanical observations. In the Sinai Peninsula he 
made a very large collection of plants which, according to his own 
statement “ are now in the possession of A. Bourke Lambert Esq.,- 
V.P.L.S.” Others were sent to J. Lindley. 
Wellsted, J. R.— Travels in Arabia. 2 vols. London, 1838. 
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