260 EPHEDRA. 
Equisetum montanum ereticum Prosp. Alpin. de Plant. exot. 140. 
Equisetum polygonoides montanum creticum Morison Hist. plant. 
HI. 621. 
Ephedra eretiea, tenuioribus et rarioribus flagellis Tournef. Co- 
rollar. 53. 
Ephedra fragilis Sieser in Flora I. 213. Reise nach Creta H. 91. 
Biasoletto Viagg. 206. 
Ephedra altissima Tommassini in Flora XVII. 2. Beibl. $6. 
Ephedra distachya Durville Enum. pl. Orient. 126. 
Ephedra distachya 5. Bory et Chaub. Flor. Pelopones. 65. 
Ephedra campylopoda C. A. Meyer Ephedr. 13. 
Habitat in insula. Creta, per totam Graeciam, in Macedonia 
el Dalmatia , e rupibus pendula. 
13. EPHEDRA ALTE C. Á. Mey. 
Thraupalos arborescens, ramulis hispidulis strictis, pe- 
dunculis ad ramorum articulos verticillatis continuis v. 
internodio interceptis, amentis staminigeris in apice pe- 
dunculi aggregatis, antheris subquaternis sessilibus, gem- 
muliferis ovatis bifloris, vaginis submarginatis ciliolatis, 
infima cupuleformi obsolete biloba, intima apice semi- 
bifida nuculas ovatas quante, micropyles limbo ligulato 
tubum excedente. 
Ephedra alata Schimp. Plant. arab. ewsicc. n. 280 et 316. non 
Decaisn. 
? Ephedra altissima Delile Flor. Aegypt. n. 947. 
Ephedra Alte C. A. Meyer Ephedr. 35. t. 3. f. 4. 
Ephedra foliata Boiss. in Kotschy Plant. Pers. n. 866. 
Alte Arab. 
Habitat in Arabia , ad rupes vallis Rhaphidim , ad Bertan 
et ad. radices montis Sinai, nec non ad Persepolim. 
SEcrio II. POLYCOMPTOS.  Amenta. gemmulifera. uni- 
fora. .Nucule utrinque convexc. 
1^. EpPukDRA raAGILIS Desf. 
Polycomptos fruticosa procumbens, ramis erectis, amentis 
staminigeris ad articulos sessilibus, antheris 4 — 5, gem- 
