498 RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



4. S. capillata L. Sp. PL ed. II, 116. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea. 

 Disteib. : Southern Europe, Northern Asia. 



5. S. Lagascae Roem. & Schult. Syst. II, 333. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (Boiss.). 

 Disteib. : Mediterranean, Orient, Arabia. 



24. Oryzopsis Michx. 



1. 0. miliacea (L.) Aschers.-Schweinf. 111. Fl. d'Egypt 169, n. 1173. 

 — Piptatherum miliaceum Coss. Plant, crit. p. 129. 



Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (McDonald !) ; Raphidim (Schimp. 

 309 !) ; damp places of Sinai desert (Bove 14 !). 

 Fe. : May 1835 (Schimp.), June 1832 (Bove). 

 Disteib. : Mediterranean, N. Atlantic Islands. 



Vern. name : Sab al Abu Hossein (Schimp.). 



2. 0. coerulescens Hack, in Denkschr. Acad. Wien, I (1885) 75. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea. 

 Disteib. : Asia Minor, Arabia. 



3. 0. holciformis Hack, in Denkschr. Acad. Wien, I (1885) 8. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai region (Figari !) ; Mt. Catherine (Schimp. 312 !). 

 Fe. : Mar. (Figari) ; May 1835 (Schimp.). 

 Disteib. : Arabia, Persia. 



25. Piptatherum Beauv. 



I. P. multiflorum Beauv. Agrost. 18. 



Habitat : I. Wady es Sheikh ; wadies on both sides of the Arabah 

 and in the main valley (Hart) ; Arabia Petraea (Schimp. 309, Boiss.). 

 Disteib. : Europe, Siberia, Arabia. 



26. Heleochloa Host. 



1. H. dura Boiss. Fl. Or. V, 477. 



Habitat : II. Yaman (Traill !). 



III. Dhofar Mts., Hafa (Bent 32 !) ; near El Hami (S, 

 174 !). 



Fl. : Apr. 1881 (S.). 

 Fe. : Apr. 1881 (S.). 

 Disteib. : Baluchistan, Arabia. 



2. H. schoenoides (L.) Host. Gram.. Austr. I (1801) 23, t. 30. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai (Herb. Kew !). 

 Disteib. : Mediterranean, Persia. 



