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4 TRAVELS IN UPPER
whole appearance, would render it worth cultivat-
ing as an ornamental plant, were it not among
the number of those which nature has destined
to furnish nutriment for mankind. The second,
which bears the Arabian name of bammia *, has
likewise considerable affinity to the mallow tribe.
Its flowers are yellow. It is the kalalou of America.
This furnishes the most mucilaginous of all
dishes.
These two plants, like the banana and leshta,
are exotics, though they are very abundant in this
country: but the ail?, a large species of tamarisky,
hitherto little known, appears to be peculiar to
Egypt. Linnaeus has made no mention of it ;
though it is described in the thirteenth edition of
his Systema Naturae by Gmclin, who took his
account of it from Forskal.
This atJe, which differs from the common
tamarisk %, both in size, and in its botanical
characters, on which I shall adopt the expressions
of a traveller, whose skill in this branch of natural
* Hibiscus escukntus. Lin.—Forskal, FloraJEgyptiaco-Arabka,
p. 125.
f Tamarix orientalis. Forskal, Flora Egyptiaco-Arabica,
p. 206.—Lin. edit. 13.
% Tamarix gallica, Lin,
history
whole appearance, would render it worth cultivat-
ing as an ornamental plant, were it not among
the number of those which nature has destined
to furnish nutriment for mankind. The second,
which bears the Arabian name of bammia *, has
likewise considerable affinity to the mallow tribe.
Its flowers are yellow. It is the kalalou of America.
This furnishes the most mucilaginous of all
dishes.
These two plants, like the banana and leshta,
are exotics, though they are very abundant in this
country: but the ail?, a large species of tamarisky,
hitherto little known, appears to be peculiar to
Egypt. Linnaeus has made no mention of it ;
though it is described in the thirteenth edition of
his Systema Naturae by Gmclin, who took his
account of it from Forskal.
This atJe, which differs from the common
tamarisk %, both in size, and in its botanical
characters, on which I shall adopt the expressions
of a traveller, whose skill in this branch of natural
* Hibiscus escukntus. Lin.—Forskal, FloraJEgyptiaco-Arabka,
p. 125.
f Tamarix orientalis. Forskal, Flora Egyptiaco-Arabica,
p. 206.—Lin. edit. 13.
% Tamarix gallica, Lin,
history