508 RECORDS OF TEE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



3. P. maxima Blatt. & McCann, var. stenophylla Boiss. FL Or. V 

 (1884) 563. 



Habitat : I. Sinai (ex Muschler). 

 Distrib. : Cosmopolitan. 



51. Ammochloa Boiss. 



1. A. palaestiua Boiss. Diagn. PL Or. Ser. I, XIII (1853) 51. 

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

 Distrib. : N. Africa, Sinai, Syria. 



52. Lamarckia Moench. 



1. L. aurea (L.) Moench. Meth. PL Marb. (1794) 201. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (Herb. Kew !). 



Distrib. : Mediterranean countries from the Canaries to the Punjab 

 and Abyssinia. 



53. Koeleria Pers. 



1. K. phleoides Pers. Syn. I, 97. 



Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (Haussk.). 

 Distrib. : Mediterranean. 



%o K. sinaica Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I, XIII, 53. 

 Habitat : I. Sinai (Auch. 3061 !). 

 Distrib. : Arabia. 



54. Melica L. 



1. M. cupani Guss. Suppl. Fl. Sic. Prodr. 17, var. patmosa Boiss. 



Habitat : I. Top of Mt. Catherine (Schimp. 104 !). 



Fr, : May 1835 (Schimp.). 



Distrib. of type : Mediterranean region, Orient, Himalayas. 



55. Sphenopus Trin. 



I. S. divaricate (Gouan) Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. I (1830) 45. 

 Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (Herb.* Kew !). 

 Distrib. : Mediterranean. 



56. Halopyrum Stapf. 



1. II. mucronatum Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2448 (1896). — Desmazeria 

 unioloides Defl. Voy. Yemen 220. 



Habitat : II. Eastern shore of the isthmus of Barriere Gate, on 

 small dunes and sandhills forming large bushes with stolons often reach- 

 ing 90 cm. and more (S. !) ; Hodeidah (Den. 31 !) ; Yaman, in salt 

 marshes (Bove 257 !). 





