The Acacia seyal is the shittah or shittim tree of the Bible, John Douglas Woodward, 1881

Wood engravings. The outlet of wâdy nagb buderah, in the seih sidreh. The acacia seyal is the shittah or shittim tree of the bible. The "seyal" is the only timber tree of any size in the arabian desert. Date: 1881.