882 Gesammtsitzung 



Meisarrhena tomentosa R. Br. ms. in Salt voy. to Abyss. 

 app. p. LXIV. (1814) ex Benth. in D. C. Prod. X. p. 347. 



Distemon camp anularis Ehrenb. et Hempr. ms.! (1825) 



Capraria arabica Höchst, et Steud. in herb. un. it. 1837 

 n. 748! (in Endl. gen. pl. p. 682 lapsu calami manifesto 

 C. aegyptiaca landatur). 



Anticharis arabica Endl. iconogr. gen. pl. tab. 93! (1838). 

 nov. stirp. decad. p. 23! Benth. in D. C. Prod. X. p. 347, non 

 Fenzl in Kotschyi pl. Aeth., neque Höchst, in Kotschyi it. nub. 

 et Schimp. it. abyss., nee Stocks neque Anderson fl. Aden. 



Habitat secus piagas maris rubri in Nubiae regione Etbai 

 in monte basaltico Gebel Hotarba prope Promontorium Elba, 

 (Schweinfurth 1864 n. 157!) et in monte Gebel Uaratab pr. 

 Suakin (id. 1864 n. 151!); in Abyssinia (Salt ex R. Brown), 

 e. gr. in insula Hauakel pr. Massauam (Ehrenberg et Hemprich 

 1825!); in Arabia pr. Djeddam (iid. 1825!) in Wadi Kamme et 

 monte Djara pr. Gunfudam (iid. 1825!), in montibus Sidr et 

 Kasr, in collibus Ged Lac vicinis (Fischer n. 17 ex Endl. et 

 Benth.), pr. pagum Ferihe Arabiae felicis (W. Schimper 1836, 

 herb. un. itin. 1837 n. 748!) Florida Januario usque ad Junium. 



Obs. Inter priorem, cui tarnen multo propius affinis, et se- 

 quentem media, habitu gracili ab utraque dignoscitur. Adest 

 speeimen a Cl. Ehrenberg in monte Djara Arabiae lectum, a 

 solito speciei habitu alienum, A. glandulosam fere referens, in- 

 ferne fructibus jam effoetis onustum, superne vero ramulis no- 

 vellis sub peduneulis erumpentibus revirescens. Conf. p. 880. Minus 

 caute exsiccando nigrescit. Flores 0,005 — 0,006 M. longi. Co- 

 rollae tubas coerulescenti-albidus, limbus purpurascens (Ehrenberg.) 



3. Anticharis linearis (Benth.) Höchst. 

 Tota plus minus glaüduloso-hirtella, erecto-ramosissima; 

 folia linearia acuminata; peduneuli filiformes stricti calyce duplo- 

 quadruplo longiores, plus minus patuli, supra medium, saepius 

 paullo infra florem bracteolati; bracteolae lineares, pro genere 

 majusculae; calycis segmenta lanceolata, acuminata; corolla ca- 

 lyce subtriplo longior; antherarum lobi basales acuminati, sub- 

 aequales; Capsula matura e basi ovata lageniformis, calycem 

 duplo superans. O 



