Typewritten and annotated list of distribution of botanical samples prepared at Kew Herbarium, page 1. Includes corresponding notes for the report by Leonard Boodle.

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List prepared at the Herbarium,
Roy. Bot. Gardens, Kew.

DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES FROM EGYPTIAN TOMB
FORWARDED BY MR. HOWARD CARTER.

Many of the plants in this list have been widely cultivated

for a long time and it is now hardly possible to state where they

occurred as actual natives. Some of the cultivated varieties of

these species do not occur at all in the wild state.

See Boodle Report

p.4. Carthamus tinctorius L. Widely cultivated and often recorded as an

escape. Said to have probably originated in Arabia.

p.5. Centaurea depressa M.B. Egypt, etc.

p.7. Citrullus vulgaris Schrad. Widely cultivated in the Mediterranean

Region; spontaneous and cultivated throughout Sudan and elsewhere

in Tropical Africa.

p.8. Coriandrum sativum L. Very widely cultivated and frequent as an

alien or escape from cultivation. Said to be wild in Palestine,

Syria, Iraq, and Greece.

p.9 Cyperus papyrus L. Egypt, Sudan and Tropical Africa generally.

p.10 Ficus Sycomorus L. Cultivated throughout the Mediterranean Region

and occurs frequently as an escape. Occurs wild in East and

South Tropical Africa.

p.11. Grewia betulaefolia Juss. Arabia, S. Persia, Baluchistan, India,

Abyssinia, Sudan and Uganda.
See N^os. 342, 441, 506 & 562

p.15. Lens esculenta Moench. Widely cultivated in the Mediterranean Region

and frequent as an escape.

p.16 Mimusops Schimperi Hochst. Abyssinia, Eritrea.

p.17. Olea europea L. Cultivated throughout the Mediterranean Region.

Native country unknown.

p.18 Phoenix dactylifera L. Cultivated throughout the southern and

eastern Mediterranean Region. Native country unknown.

p.19 Prunus Amygdalus Stokes. Said to be wild only in Afghanistan,

Turkestan, Transcaucasia, Persia and Syria. Widely cultivated.

p.20. Punica Granatum L. Cultivated throughout the Mediterranean Region

and often subspontaneous.

p.21 Salix Safsaf Forsk. Egypt; Sudan and East Africa southwards to

Transvaal and Angola.