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Grecian Islands ; Arabia Petroea ; Southern Persia, at 

 Buschir. 



L. cystisoides, L. ; Kotschy, pi. ^gypt. exs. no. 949. 

 Lotus creticus, ^. cytisoides, Boiss. F. 0. p. 165, 



L. creticus, L. ; Rchb. Icon. t. 134. 



Var. a. genuinus, Boiss. F. O. p. 165. 



See Prod. Florae Hispanicas of Willkomm and Lange, 

 p. 341, for a good discrimination of these two species or, 

 varieties. They both occur around Alexandria. 



L. ornithopodioides , L. 



Scorpiurus subvillosa, L. Mar. 



S. sulcata occurs more in the interior ; but I have not 

 seen it in this district. 



Tetragonolohus palcestinus, Boiss; Lx. Exs. 185. 



Sesbania (Bgyptiaca, Pers. Syn. ii, 316 ; Lx. Exs. 57. 



Mxchynomenc sesba7i, L. Roxb. 



JE. indica, Barm. 



Coronilla sesban, Willd., Rheede. 



Plains from the Himalayas to Ceylon and Siam, ascend- 

 ing to 4000 feet in the north-west ; cosmopolitan in tropics 

 of the Old World '(/. G. Baker, F. I.) ; Senegal; Nubia; 

 Afghanistan and Eastern India (Boiss. F. 0.). 



This plant reminds one of the genus Coronilla, under 

 which it is placed by Willd. Boissier, in his ' Flora Ori- 

 entalis/ asks whether it is really spontaneous in Egypt — a 

 question I must echo. I never saw it looking truly wild. 

 It has probably been introduced from India in very ancient 



