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and lower- egypt. 3
fellow. (See a representation of it, PI. IX. fig. iv)
Its Arabic name is keshia, in English cream. Its
soft pulp, indeed, is as white as cream. The
kernels contained in it are numerous, brown, and
oblong.
Under the shade of the trees that grow in these
orchards, various plants are cultivated; and the
roots of these plants are refreshed by water, con-
veyed to them in every direction through little
trenches; each enclosure having its well, or re-
servoir, from which the water is distributed to the
trenches by a wheel turned by oxen. A great
deal of the common mallow *, called here hobeze,
. is cultivated in these orchards. It is boiled with
meat, and is one of the most common culinary
vegetables in Lower Egypt. In Upper Egypt it
is not eaten, and little is to be seen.
Two other plants, likewise frequently used as
food, are the melochia and bammia. The first, of
which the Arabic name is melochia :\, much re-
sembles the marsh-mallow, and affords, like it, a
mucilage on boiling. Its flowers resembling a
rose, of a yellow hue mingled with red, and its
* Malmc rolunJifolia. Lin.
f Corchorus olitorius. Lin.—Forskal, Flora Egyptiaco-Arabica,
p. IOI.
b i whole
fellow. (See a representation of it, PI. IX. fig. iv)
Its Arabic name is keshia, in English cream. Its
soft pulp, indeed, is as white as cream. The
kernels contained in it are numerous, brown, and
oblong.
Under the shade of the trees that grow in these
orchards, various plants are cultivated; and the
roots of these plants are refreshed by water, con-
veyed to them in every direction through little
trenches; each enclosure having its well, or re-
servoir, from which the water is distributed to the
trenches by a wheel turned by oxen. A great
deal of the common mallow *, called here hobeze,
. is cultivated in these orchards. It is boiled with
meat, and is one of the most common culinary
vegetables in Lower Egypt. In Upper Egypt it
is not eaten, and little is to be seen.
Two other plants, likewise frequently used as
food, are the melochia and bammia. The first, of
which the Arabic name is melochia :\, much re-
sembles the marsh-mallow, and affords, like it, a
mucilage on boiling. Its flowers resembling a
rose, of a yellow hue mingled with red, and its
* Malmc rolunJifolia. Lin.
f Corchorus olitorius. Lin.—Forskal, Flora Egyptiaco-Arabica,
p. IOI.
b i whole