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Ximenia aegyptiaca Jussieu.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX174. In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh writes: 'This seems to me a new genus rather than a species of Ximenia. It is an hostile-looking, small tree, or large shrub, grows on the most inhospitable, dry, barren, uncultivated places in the Circars. Flowering in May.' Roxburgh also describes the use of the nut of this species in fireworks: 'A small hole is drilled in it, at which the kernel is extracted, and being filled with powder, and fired, bursts with a very loud report, so exceedingly hard is the nut...' Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.253.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

Circar Mountains, India

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Flora
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Category

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