400 FAUNA AND FLORA OF PALESTINE. 



5. Avtarantns sylvestris. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 41. =A.virictis. L. 

 Waste places ; general. Area, Central and Southern Europe, North 



Africa, India. 



6. Albcrsia blifuni. Kunth. Fl. Ber. ii., p. 144. 



Littoral districts, Jordan valley. Area, Central and Southern 



Europe, North Africa, Abyssinia, India. 



7. yErva javanica. Juss. Ann. Mus. ii., p. 131. 

 Wady Zuweirah, Callirrhoe, Dead Sea. 



8. Achyrantlus aspcra. L. Sp. 295. 



The Ghor, near Jericho. Area, Arabia, Nubia, Abyssinia, India, 

 the Cape, Madeira, Canaries, Azores. 



9. Gomphrena globosa. L. Sp. 326. 



Probably introduced. Area, Tropical East Asia. 



ORDER CI., POLYGONE.E. 



1. Calligonnm comosjiin. L'Her. Tr. Lin. Soc. Lond. i., p. 180. 

 Southern Desert. Area, the Sahara. 



2. Calligonum polygonoides. L. Sp. 478. 

 Northern and eastern deserts. 



3. Rhatin ribcs. Gron. Fl. Or., p. 130. Moab, Lebanon. 



4. Oxyria digyna. (L. Sp. 480.) Mountain Sorrel. 



Lebanon. Area, mountains of Central Europe, Siberia, and North 

 America. 



5. Emex spinosus. (L. Sp. 481.) 



Littoral districts, inland plains, and Jordan valley. Area, Portugal, 

 Mediterranean region. 



6. Ruinex oricntalis. Benh. in Schult. Fil. Syst. vii., p. 1433. 

 Lebanon. 



7. Ruinex aquaticus. L. Sp. 479. Herb. Kew. 

 Area, Northern and Central Europe. 



