496 RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



11. A. ciliata Desf. in Schrad. N. Journ. Ill (1809) 255. 



Habitat : I. Wadies Ghurundel and Arabah ; Ghor es^ Safieh 

 (Hart); foot of Jebel Musa (Kneuck. 249!); Jebel Musa, 1,500 m. 

 (Kneuck.) ; Wady Hebran (S. 165 !) ; Mt. Horeb (Auch. 2989 !) ; Mt. 

 Sinai (Schimp. 161 !) ; Wady Sewook (Lord !) ; WadyMokateb (Boiss. !) ; 

 Arabia Petraea (McDonald !) ; neighb. of Sinai (Bove 20 !). 

 II. Aden, Khamfer (Defl.). 



Fr. : Mar. 1846 (Boiss.), Apr. 1868 (Lord), Apr. 1835 (Schimp.), 

 Apr. 1902 (Kneuck.), May 1835 (Schimp.), June 1832 (Bove). 



Distrib. : N. Africa, S. Africa, Arabia. 



Vern. name : Massje (Bove). 



12. A. obtusa Del. Fl. Aeg.475, t. 13, fig. 2. 



Habitat : I. Wadies Nasb, Sudr, and Ghurundel (Elain) ; Debbet 

 er Kami eh (Hart) ; Wady Ghurundel (Post 49 !) ; Wady Hebran (Schimp. 

 163 !) ; Arabia Petraea (Figari !) ; Eamleh (Hart !). 

 II. Yaman (ex Boiss.). 

 IV. Central Arabia (Pelly !). 

 Fr. : Mar. 1882 (Post), Apr. 1835 (Schimp.). 

 Distrib. : N. Africa, S. Africa, Arabia. 



Observ. : Grows in tufts and forms the principal part of the grass 

 of the desert (Pelly). 



13. A. paradisia Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI (1847) II, 

 1219. — A. calojjtila (Jaub. et Spach) ; Schweinf. in Boiss. Fl. Or. V 

 (1884) 497. 



Habitat : I. Jebel Musa, 1,500 m. (Kneuck.) ; Arabia Petraea 

 (McDonald !) ; Sinai Peninsula (Holland !). 



II. Ghissan (Ehrenb. 241 !) ; Aden (Anders !, Balfour !, 

 Perry !, Thomson !, Hook. 108 !, Lunt 307 ! 336 !, S. 28 ! 48 !). 



III. Plains of Dhofar (Bent 49 !) ; El Hami (S. 202 !). 



IV. At the Persian Gulf (Auch. 5445). 



Fr. : Mar. 1881 (S.), Apr. 1861 (Thomson), Apr. 1881 (S.), Nov. 

 1888 (S.), Dec. 1847 (Hook.). 



Distrib. : Persia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Arabia. 



14. A. imugens Desf. Fl. Atlant. I, 109, t. 35. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai. 



Distrib. : N. Africa, Arabia, Turkestan, Siberia, Nubia. 



15. A. cocrulcscens Desf. Fl. Atlant. I, 109. 



Habitat : I. Wady el Tihyeh (Hart) ; Arabia Petraea (Schimp. 

 368). 



Distrib. : Mediterranean, Nubia, Abyssinia, Senegal, Cape of Good 

 Hope, India, New Holland. 



