FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Many of the native shop-keepers have built houses at the village of 
Shaikh Othman, and most of those houses are surrounded by a com- 
pound. Many different crops are cultivated in these compounds, the 
most general being lucerne, Indian corn and jowari. In almost every 
compound, too, are some trees, generally date and doum palms, with 
perhaps local babuls and Gold Mohurs and, in addition a few foreign 
trees such as Thesjoesia gopulnea, ParJcinsonia aculeata , Azadirachta 
indica, Lawsonia inermis , etc. The most interesting cultivated ground 
in the village is the so called f Forest 9 where most of the plants are 
indigenous species growing under more or less natural conditions. 1 
1 Yerbury, in epist. 
