vom 20. December 1866. 883 



Distemon angustifolius Ehrenb. et Hempr. ms.! (1825). 



Anticharis arabica Fenzl in Kotschyi pl. Aeth! Höchst, in 

 Kotschyi it. nub. ! et Schimp. it. abyss. !, A. Richard tent. flor. 

 abyss. II p. 119, non Endl. 



Doratanthera linearis Benth. in D. C. Prod. X. p. 347! 

 (1846). Webb spicil. gorgon. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 167. 

 Schmidt, Beiträge zur Fl. der Capverd. Ins. S. 245. Edgeworth 

 Florula Mallica in Journ. of Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. VI. p. 191. 

 Speke Journ. of the discovery of the source of the Nile p. 641. 

 Schweinfurth Beitr. zur Fl. Aethiop. p. 241. 



Anticharis linearis Höchst, in litt, ad Cl. A. Braun anno 

 1856. Sitzungsbericht der Ges. naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 18. Dec. 

 1866 Schweinfurth Beitr. zur Fl. Aeth. p. 275 n. 1609. 



Aream inter congeneres latissime patentem occupat; huc- 

 usque innotuit ex insulis Caboverdicis St. Antonii (Vogel 1841 

 ex Webb 1. c), St. Vincentii (Schmidt 1. c, Bolle!), Boa Vista 

 (Schmidt 1. c); ex Senegambia pr. Richard-Tol (Lelievre!) et 

 Dagano-Uallo (Leprieur!); e Kordofan pr. Obeid (Cienkowski 

 1848!) et in arenis porphyriticis infra montem Arasch-Kol 

 (Kotschy 1837, pl. Aeth. n. 59! et 1839, it nubic. n. 90!); 

 e Nubia juxta Gossypii agros in ripa Nili dextra infra Chartum, 

 16° lat. bor. (Grant 1863 ex Thomson in Speke 1. c); e re- 

 gionis Etbai Wady Selem ab urbe el Meherif (Berber) Orientem 

 versus sito (Schweinfurth 1866 n. 171!), monte Gebel Uaratab 

 pr. Suakin (id. 1864 n. 170!), monte a nautis anglicis Castle 

 Hill dicto (Soturba) (id. 1865 n. 414!); ex Abyssiniae regionibus 

 demissis (3000 — 4000'), sc. valle pr. pagum Ailet prov. Modat 

 (W. Schimper 1839, it. abyss. sect. II n. 1050!) et territorii 

 Agow loco Gageros (id. 1854 ed. Buchinger n. 153!); ex Arabia 

 (Botta ex Benth. 1. c), e. gr. pr. Gunfudam (Ehrenberg et 

 Hemprich 1825!): ex Indorum Pentapotamia [Pendjab] (Herb. 

 Ind. Or. Hook. fil. et Thomson !) e. gr. e regione Mallorum 

 [Multan] (Edgeworth 1. c.) Florida Febr. ad Junium et Sep- 

 tembri, Octobri. 



Obs. Indici majore quam congeneres copia praedita, sic- 

 cando semper, etsi cautissime praeparata, nigro-eoerulescit; quod 

 jam Viri Cl. Ehrenberg et Hemprich indicaverunt: „Siccus coeru- 

 leus evadit, an igitur tinctorius?" Cl. Schimper in schedula idein 



