378 FAUNA AND FLORA OF PALESTINE. 



high. Like the last, only found near the mouth of the Callirrhoe and on 

 the Seisaban (the plain of Shittim), at the north-east end of the Dead Sea- 



ORDER XC, ACANTHACE/E. 



1. Blepharis cdulis. (Forsk. Eg. Arab., p. 114.) = Acanthodium 

 spicahim. Del. Arab. t_.U )1 c^^, Scliok cd Dabb. 



Southern Desert, Moab, Ghor es Safieh, Seisaban. Area, Nubia 

 Tropical Arabia, North-west India. 



2. Acanthus syriacus. Boiss. Diagn. Ser. i., ii., p. 135. 

 Universal in dry places. 



ORDER XCI., SELAGINACEiE. 



Absent. 



ORDER XCII., GLOBULARIE^. 



1. Globularia arabica. Jaub. et Sp. 111. Or. iii., pi. 260. 

 Occurs in the Wady Arabah, south of Dead Sea. 



2. Globularia alypuvi. L. Sp. 139. Area, Mediterranean region. 



3. Globularia orientalis. L. Sp. 140. The Bukaa, near Hamath. 



ORDER XCIII., VERBENACE^. 



1. Lippia nodiflora. (L. Sp. 28.) 



Esdraelon and maritime plains. Area, Mediterranean region. 



South Asia, the Cape, America. 



2. Verbena officinalis. L. Sp. 29. Vervain. 



Universal. Area, Europe, North Africa, Abyssinia, North India, 

 Canaries, the Cape, America. 



3. Verbena supina. L. Sp. 29. 



Mount Carmel, Tabor, etc. Area, Mediterranean region, Nubia, 

 Canaries. 



4. Vitex agnus-castns. L. Sp. 890. 



Plains and Jordan valley, Gilead. Area, Mediterranean region. 



