FLORA ARABICA. 451 



XCIX. GNETACEAE. 



1. Ephedra Tourn. ex L. 



1. E. alata Decne. Enum. pi. rec. par Bove. Ann. Sc. tfat. Iser. 

 II (1835) 239, var. Decaisnei Stapf in Denksehr. d. Mathem.-Naturw. 

 Classe d. Kais. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien (1889) 37. 



Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (McDonald !) ; Oasis Farrun, Wady 

 Shellal, between Kas Abu Zenime and Wady Charandel, and between 

 Wady Charandel and Wady Werdan (ex Kneuck.) ; Tih Desert (Boiss.) ; 

 Sinai Valleys (Bove, Auch.). 



3. E. foliata (Boiss.) Stapf in Denkschr. d. Mathem.-Naturw, 

 Classe d. Kais. Akad. der Wissensch. Wien (1889) 49, t. 2 and 10, f. 

 1-11, var. ciiiata Stapf 1. c. — E. ciliata Aitchison Fl. Kurum Valley 

 (1882) 187.— E. foliata Aitch. Bot. Affghan. Bound. Comniiss. 112.— 

 E. Alte Brandis For. Fl. 501, t. 69. — E. peduncularis Boiss. 1. c. 717. — 

 E. asparagoides Griff. Not. II, 340. 



Habitat : II. Aden (S. 106 !, Thomson, Den. !, Perry!). 



Fl. : Apr. 1878 (Perry), May 1886 (Den.), Dec. 1888 (S.). 



Fr. : Feb. 1857 (Thomson), Apr. 1878 (Perry), May 1886 (DefL), 

 Dec. 1888 (S.). 



Distrib. : Punjab, Sind, Persian Baluchistan, Turkestan and west- 

 wards to Syria. 



3. E. Alte C. A. Mey. Monogr. d. Gattung Ephed. (1846) 75, t. 3, 

 fig. 4 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. V (1884) 715.— E. aphylla et distachya Forsk. Fl. 

 Aeg.-Arab. (1775) LXXVIL— E. altissima Del. Descr. de l'Eg. 110 (non 

 Desf.). 



Habitat : I. Eaphidim (Schimp. 280 !) ; Bestam (Schimp. 316 !) ; 

 Sinai (Auch. 2873 !) ; Mt. Catherine (Drake 2 !) ; top of Mt. Sinai 

 (Bove 214 !). 



Fl. : June 1832 (Bove), July 1835 (Schimp.). 



Distrib. : Egypt, Syria, Cyrenaica, Somaliland. 



Vern. name : Aelde-gammel (Bove), Alte (Schimp.). 



4. E. fragilis Desf. Fl. Atlant. II, 372. 

 Habitat : I. Wady Arabah (Hart). 

 Distrib. : Mediterranean, Arabia. 



C. CONIFERAE. 



1. Cupressus Tourn. ex L. 



1. C. sempervirens L. Sp. PL 1002. 



Habitat : I. Jebel Musa, ca. 2,100 m., probably cult, (ex Kneuck) ; 

 Arabia Petraea (McDonald !) very likely planted. 



Distrib. : N.-W. India, planted only. The horizontally branches 

 variety is wild in N. Persia, Syria and Asia Minor. 



