FLORA ARABIC A. 455 



%. S. gumeeusis WiM. Sp. PL II, 159. 



Habitat : II. Yaman (ex Fiori) ; Jebel Melhan near Wolledje, 

 600 m. (S. 696a !) ; Jebel Bura, above Hille, 800 m. (S. 378). 

 Fl. : Feb.-Jan. 1889 (S.). 

 Fr. : Feb.-Jan. 1889 (S.). 

 Distrib. : Tropical Africa. 



Vern. name : Dermeg, Tiharag (S.). 



CV. IRIDACEAE. 



1. Iris Tourn. ex L. 



1. I. floreutina L. Sp. PL II, 55 ; Bot. Mag. t. 671.—/, Forsk. 

 Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) p. GUI.— I. sp. Den. Voy. Yemen 209. 



Habitat : II. Top of Shibam, below the old castle ; S. W. slope 

 of the hill between el-Hausan and Hayjera, 2,850-2,200 m. (S. 1663). 

 Fl. : Beginning of Mar. (S.). 

 Distrib. : Mediterranean. 



2. I. Sisyrinchiuin L. Sp. PL 40. — /. aegyptia Del. in Labord. Voy. 

 Arab. Petr. 82. 



Habitat : IV. From the neighb. of Koweit and here and there in 

 hollows in the neighb. of Regat (Pelly !). 



Distrib. : Mediterranean, Orient, Afghanistan, Baluchistan. 



3. I. Helenae Barbey Herboris. au Levant (1880) 159, no. 841 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Or. V (1884) 132 ; Baker Handb. Irid. 19. 



Habitat : I. Desert between Egypt and Palestine near El-Arish 

 (Barbey). 



Fl. : Mar. (Barbey). 



4. I. palaestina Boiss. FL Or. V (1884) 122. — Xiphium falaestinum 

 Baker in Seem. Journ. (1871) 108. 



Habitat : I. Tel Abou Hereireh to Gaza (Hart). 

 Fl. : Last week of Dec. (Hart). 

 Distrib. : Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia. 



2. Gladiolus L. 



1. G. segetum Ker-Gawl. in Bot. Mag. (1804) t. 719 ; Boiss. FL 

 Or. V (1884) 139 ; Baker Handb. Irid. 200 ; Musch. FL Egypt. I (1912) 

 238. 



Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (ex Muschler). 



Distrib. : Mediterranean to Persia and Turkestan. 



£. G. segetum Ker-Gawl. var. Guepini (Koch) Boiss, FL Or. V 

 (1884) 139 ; Musch. FL Egypt I (1912) 238.— G. Guepini Koch Flora 

 XXIII (1840) 466. 



