FLORA ARABIC A. 477 



%. Scirpus (Tourn.) L. 



1. S. setaceus L. Sp. PL 49. 



Habitat : II. At Menacha, source Mechander, 2,300 m. (S. 1428 !). 



Fl. : Feb. 1889 (S.). 



Distrib. : Australia, Asia, Europe. 



%. S. corymbosus Heyne in Both Nov. PL Sp. 28, var. bracliyccros 



H. in Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. II, 496. 



Habitat : II. At Jebel Shibam, above Menacha, 2,500 m. (S. 1767 !). 



Fl. : Mar. 1889 (S.). 



Distrib. of type : Africa, India. 



3. S. lacustris L. Sp. PL 48. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea. 

 Distrib. : Cosmopolitan. 



4. S. maritimus L. Sp. PL 51. 

 Habitat : I. Ghor es Safieh (Hart !). 

 Distrib. : Cosmopolitan. 



5. S. Holosclioenus L. Sp. PL 49. 



Habitat : I. S. Midian (Burton !) ; Arabia Petraea (McDonald !) ; 

 foot of Mt. Sinai (Schimp. 108 !) ; Mt. Sinai (Lord, Bove 21 ! 32 ! 33 !) ; 

 Sinai, near Senned (Drake 86 !) ; Jebel Musa ; Wady el Tihyeh to Jebel 

 Hertih (Hart). 



Fl. : Mar.-Apr. 1878 (Burton), May 1835 (Schimp.). 

 ' Fr. : Mar.-Apr. 1878 (Burton), May 1835 (Schimp.), June 1832 (Bove). 



Distrib. : Cosmopolitan. 



Vern. name : Deess (Drake). 



6. S. littoralis Schrad. FL Germ. I, 142, t. 5, fig. 7. 



Habitat : III. Brackish pool at Ghafyt, 180 m. (Lunt 91) , Dhofar 

 Mts., in streams near coast (Bent). 

 Distrib. : Europe, Asia, Egypt. 



3. Fimbristylis Vahl. 

 1. F. spathacea Roth Nov. PL Sp. 24. 



Habitat : II. S.-W. Arabia (Ehrenb. !). 



III. Near the hot springs of el Hami (S. 158 !); 

 Fl. : Apr. 1881 (S.). 

 Fr. : Apr. 1881 (S.). 

 Distrib. : Warm regions. 



%. F. ferruginca Vahl Enum. II, 291. 



Habitat : II. Above Menacha, 2,500 m. (S. 1709) ; Wady et-Tehm, 

 1,500 m. (S, 1245) ; Wady Shaari, foot of Jebel Melhan, 700 m. (S. 677)'- 



