458 RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



%. V. (xerophyta) arabica Baker in Kew Bull. (1894) 342 ; Ic. Plant. 

 2364. 



Habitat : III. Under the edges of rocks at Dobaibah, alt. 1,200 m. 

 (Lunt 205 !). 



Fl. : Feb. 1894 (Lunt). 



Distrib. : Arabia. 



?. Sternbergia Waldst. & Kit. 



1. S. cholchiciflora Waldst. & Kit. PL Ear. Hung. II (1805) 172, 

 t. 159 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. V (1884) 147 .-—Amaryllis cholchiciflora Ker-Gawl. 

 in Journ. Sc. & Arts II (1817) 345. — Stembergia aetnensis Guss. Fl. Sic. 

 Prodr. I (1832) 395.— S. dalmatica Herb. Amaryll. (1837) 413, t. 47, 

 f m 2. — S. Glusiana Ker-Gawl. ex Schult. f . Syst. VII, 794. — S. macrantha 

 J. Gay ex Boiss. Fl. Or. 1. c. 148 ; Hart Bot. Sinai & S. Palest, in 

 Transact. Roy. Irish Acad. (1885) 445. — S. pulchella Boiss. & Blanche 

 Diagn. ser. II, IV, 97.— S. Schuberti Schenk PL Sp. Aegypt. (1840) 

 11. — S. stvpitata Boiss. & Haussk. ex-Boiss. 1. c. 148. 



Habitat : I. Mount Hor, especially about the summit (Hart !). 



Fl. : Early in Dec. (Hart). 



Distrib. : S. Europe, Syria, Palestine, Persia. 



CVII. COLCHICACEAE, 



1. Androcymbium Willd. 



1. A. palaestinum Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII (1880) 445. 

 Habitat : I. Wady Arabah (Hart). 

 Distrib. : Sinai, Palestine. 



3. Cclchicum L. 



1. C. montaimm L. Sp. PL 342. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai (Holland !). 

 Distrib. : S. Europe. 



3. C. Ste\eni Kunth Enum. PL IV, 144. 



Habitat : I. Jebel Catherine (Hart !) ; Mt. Hor and Petra (Hart !). 



Fl. : Second week of Dec. 



Distrib. : Arabia, Syria. 



3. C. variegatum L. Sp. PL 342. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai. 



Distrib. : S. Europe. 



4. C. velutinum Bornm. et Kneuck. in Allg. Bot. Zeitsch. (1903) 



63. 



Habitat : I. Jebel Catherine, ca. 2,450 m. (ex Kneuck.). 

 Distrib. : Sinai. 



