The flora, so dependent upon the nature of the ground, offers little variety throughout this tract, although a few new plants were found in the favoured plain of Sultelli. Four _Compositae_ (one Santolina), three _Leguminosae_ (one Cassia, resembling Senna), one _Euphorbia_ (rotundifolia), one _Solanum_, one _Cucurbitacea_ (Cucumis africanus), one _Crucifera_ (Farsetia linearis), three _Malvaceae_ (Hibiscus urens, Althaea spec.), one _Tiliacea_ (Grewia spec.), one _Cistinea_ (Helianthemum spec.), one _Acanthacea_ (Acanthus carduifolius), four _Gramineae_, one _Cyperacea_. There were, however, no large timber trees, though edible berries of a sub-acid taste were supplied from a Helianthemum and a Grewia. Between Waramilli and Naga Koomi the shrubs of the Balsamodendron myrrha were first discovered, and these continued as far as the Hawash. Grass too is met with on the wide plains. Large camel-thorn acacias, and a strange tree of the family Capparidea, at intervals interrupt the uniform desert waste; but even the luxuriant vegetation which prevails on the banks of the Hawash contains little besides the Tamarix africana. A high jungle of Acacia extends near the plain of Azboti, supplying an abundance of sweet gum-arabic, and the last stage to Dathara is encumbered with the Aloe soccotrina. There are also many fine forest trees in the valley of Kokai, amongst which the Tamarindus indica stands conspicuous; but no cultivation whatsoever is to be seen during the entire progress of upwards of three hundred miles from the sea-coast to the green hills of Abyssinia. Appendix, Number III. Description of the Frankincense Tree, as Found near Cape Guardufoi, on the Somauli Coast, by Captain C.B. Kempthorne, Indian Navy, Commanding the Hon. Company's Sloop of War "Clive." At Bunder Cassim, about one hundred miles to the eastward of Berbera, the mountains come close down to the coast. There is a pass and road over them, and a few hours' walking will, it is said, lead to a fine climate, and to a beautifully fertile country, abounding in the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the lion, and thickly populated by pastoral tribes. Several rivers take their source in the high land, and, flowing to the southward and eastward, fall into the Indian Ocean, 4 degrees or 5 degrees north of the equator. The chief town of the Miggertheyn Somauli is at Bunder Maryah, which lies twenty miles south-west of Ras Feeluk. The range is here about 5000 feet in altitude, and three miles from the shore. Ascending 1000 feet, a wide plain presents itself, bounded on every side by precipitous mountains studded with the frankincense and gum acacia trees, but looking bare and naked from the total absence of underwood.