. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. to which time it appears, therefore, that in proper situations the oleander continues its The Arabs think the blossoms poisonous to their Nebek shrub grows abundantly in the plain of Jericho (where it forms extensive thickets), and in other of the warmer parts of Palestine, as well as throughout Edom and the Sinai peninsula. This branching shrub is the Rhamnus Lotus, the true lotus of the Lolophagi. The fruit, which formed so prominent an article of diet to these lotus-eaters of old, is ripe in a Th
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. to which time it appears, therefore, that in proper situations the oleander continues its The Arabs think the blossoms poisonous to their Nebek shrub grows abundantly in the plain of Jericho (where it forms extensive thickets), and in other of the warmer parts of Palestine, as well as throughout Edom and the Sinai peninsula. This branching shrub is the Rhamnus Lotus, the true lotus of the Lolophagi. The fruit, which formed so prominent an article of diet to these lotus-eaters of old, is ripe in a Th. 86. b Burckhardts editor gives Solarium furiusum as the botanical syuonyme oidefle, an error which we have inadvertently tran-scribed in some preceding page. That the defle could not be S. furiusum is evident from Burckhardt himself, who calls it atree or shrub; and that it is the oleander we have now ascertained beyond question. c ltauwolit, 49, 233; Hasselquist, 147; Burckhardt, 320, 369, 3/0, 401, 411; Buckingham, ii. 108; Lindsay, ii. 30, andelsewhere. 2 h 2. .-*-<_ [Oleander. Nerium oleander.] CCXXXV1 PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VII. April, and is still, wherever it grows, as much an article of food as in former days. Thefruit, as growing on the western verge of the plain of Jericho, is described by Monro,a asresembling in size and appearance a Siberian crab, in flavour a bad mellow apple, but itcontains a stone like that of a cherry. It is a favourite food of the Bedouins; they grind thedried fruit together with the stone, and preserve the meal, called by them bsyse, in leathernskins. It is an excellent provision for journeying in the desert, for it requires only theaddition of butter-milk to make a most nourishing, agreeable, and refreshing LordLindsay0 says that they also make it into small cakes with water or milk. He describes thefruit, of which he ate this month in Sinai, as delicious. Although their fruit is later, we may as well, for the
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