THE KURAM VALLEY, ETC., AFGHANISTAN. 187 
but the babit of the plant is so different, that I suspect it may 
be a distinet species. 
496, 537, 537). Ephedra ciliata, Fisch. & Mey. 
This is reduced by Parlatore and others to Z. Alfe, C. A. 
Meyer. Judging from the type specimens in the Kew Herbarium, 
it seems to be a distinet species both in habit and inflorescence. 
The male flowers of C. Alte are nearly four times as large as 
those of E. ciliata, bearing thicker non-ciliolate scales. My 
plant has ciliolate scales; the scales of the female flowers are 
at first green, becoming tinged with a russet brown; the inner 
scales, which at first only partially cover the seeds, become fleshy, 
gradually enlarge until they completely enclose the two seeds, 
and, by the close approximation of their free margin, give the 
fruit the appearance of being a drupe. The fruit, when ripe, is 
semitransparent, of a milky white (not red), clearly showing two 
black seeds oecupying the interior. 
From Thal to Mandüri, in the low hills, not above 3500 feet in 
altitude. 
I have collected the same species at Rawul-pindee in the 
Punjab, no. 536, Salt range no. 6; Stocks, Seinde, nos. 7 and 
449; Fleming, Salt range, no. 94; Vicary, Margalla pass near 
Rawul-pindee. 
CONIFERE. 
105, 226,— 1210 (1879). Juniperus recurva, Ham. 
Pinus longifolia, Lamb. 
Cultivated in the cantonments of Kohat. I did not meet with 
it anywhere in the Kuram or Hariáb districts. 
P. halepensis, Mill. 
Kuram district; occurs only as a cultivated tree near a shrine 
in the village of Zérán, at an altitude of 6500 feet. 
MONOCOTYLEDONES. 
PETALOIDEZ *. 
PALMACEZ. 
Nannorrhops Ritchieana, Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1879, p. 148. (Plate 
XXVI. figs. 1-12.)—Chamerops Ritchieana, Griffith, See Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. p. 99. 
* For the identification of the Petaloidex I am indebted to Mr. J. G. Baker, 
F.R.S. 
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