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SOME plants of the zor hills. 
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Local name. — <l II am at” (JeU*.) 
A hairy spreading plant with leaveg lying very fiat on the sand and radiating 
from one central root that ruua deep into the soil, The flowers are pink. It is fairly 
common and is invariably found on sand hills. Animals graze on it but men have no 
use for it. 
61. Nonnea Medic. ( Xonea Moench.) 
83. Nonnea picta Sweet. Hort. Brit, ed. I, 292 ; FI. Or IV, 166* 
Zor Hills. No, 9. 
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Local name. — je Chalial ” (cF*-?). This vernacular name differs little 
from that applied to Anchusa hispida Forsk. (cf. No. 81). 
J) is tribe — From Persia westward to Armenia, Trans-Caucasia, 
Eastern and Southern Russia. Also in Afghanistan and Beluchistan. 
The plant, at its fulll height, reaches to about one foot. It grows in clumps and has 
small yellow flowers. It is found everywhere except in swamps. Camels graze on It 
readily but men have no use for it. 
XXV— LABIATE. 
62. Tewcriom Tournef. 
84. Teucrium sinaicum Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 1, 12, 91 ; FI. Or. IV, 
822. 
Zor Hills. No. 41. 
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Local name. — “J'adah” Boissier gives this name (“jaada”) 
but Muschler gives the same name (" jaade ”) to Ajuga Iva Schrb., an 
allied Egyptian plant. 
Distrib. — Known chiefly in Arabia Petraea. 
A bush about the size of the “ arafij ” (see under Centaurea No. 98), growing to 
2 feet high. It beats a white flower. The leaves are greyish white and give forth, 
when crushed, a characteristic scent. The growth is peculiar. Long roots work ont 
from a central root and each branch root carries innumerable stalks of the plant. It 
is generally found in the sandy torrent beds as they work down to the sea and is 
especially common round Sabr’a. All grazing animals except horses and donkeys feed 
on it. Both Bedouins and townsmen use the loaves boiled up with limes as a cooling 
draught in fever. Bedouins also dry the leaves and smoke them as tobacco. 
XXVI— SCROPHULARIACEJB. 
63. Scrophnlaria Linn. 
85. Scrophularia lucida Linn. Syst. ed. X, 1114 ; FL Or. IV, 403; 
F. B. I. IV, 256 
Zor Hills, without number or local name. 
