Note 112 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
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Prof. Schweinfurth informs me that the tree is the dragon’s-blood tree, Dracaena ombet v. Heuglin; he himself did not see it in the Elba neighbourhood, and its occurrence has not hitherto been recorded further north than the Erkowit district of the Sudan (latitude about 19°), where the native name for the tree is to-omba or t’ombet. See Bollettino della Società Africana d’Italia: Naples, 1891.