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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF iNDtA. 
VI. €RU€l]^eRAl:. 
1. Matthiola R. 
1. M. arabica Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat, (181<2) 49 ; Fi. Or. i> 15*:^.— 
31. tristis Decne. (non R» Br.) FI. Sin. in Ann. Sc^ Nat. eer. 2 iii, (1835) 
270. 
Habitat : I. Wady Arbain (Hueppell ex Bene.), roclry places of Mfc. 
Sinai (Schinap. 314 !), Mt. Sinai (Lord ! ), near the Mona.sttry of Sinai 
(Aucher-Eloy 132 I), Sinai desert (Bov4 133 !, H. James !) El Tor 
(Miisch.), Arab. Petr. (McDonald ! Boiss !). 
IV. Sprinkled all over the plain from Kuwait to Begat in Central Arabia 
(Pelly !) 
FI.: March 1846 (Boiss, ); May 1835 (Schimp.) ; June 1832 (Bov6) ; NoV, 
1870 (H. James*) 
Fr,: March 1846 (Boiss) , May 1835 (Schimp.) ; May 1868 (Lord) ; 
dune 1832 (Bov^) ; Nov. 1870 (H. James). 
Distrib.: Apparently endemic. 
Vern. names : Chomchom (Schimp.)* ffomhom (ex Dene.). 
3. M. bieornis DC. Syst. ii, (1821) 177 ; Boiss. FI. Or. t, (1867) 155.— 
C/ieirantkus bieornis Sibth. & Sm. Prodr. xi, 26, 
Habitat : I. Arab. Petr. : Mt. Hebran (Schimp. 142 !). 
FI. : Jnne 1835 (Schimp.), Fr. : June 1835 (Schimp.), 
DismtB. : Mediterranean region. 
3. M. hlimilis DC. Syst. ii, (1821) 177 ; Boiss. FI. Or. i, (1867) 154 ; 
Mnsch. FI. Eg. i, (1912) .397, — M» pumilio subsp. kirta Conti in Mdin. Herb, 
Boiss. fasc. xviii, 69* M. acaulis DC. Syst. ii, (1821) 168 ; Prodr. i, (1824) 
133. 
Var. typica Musch. in Fedde Rep. iii, (1906) 214. 
Habitat : I. Neighbourhood of El Tor (ex Musch.). 
DiSTKiB. *. Egypt, Arabia Petraea. 
4. M. incana F-* Dr* Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv, (1812) 119 ; Boiss. Fl. 
Or. i, (1867) 148 ; Musch. Fl. Eg. i, (1912) 397.— Cheiranthns iiicanus L. 
Sp. pi! (1753) 662. 
Habitat : I. Arab. Petr, (ex Musch.). 
DisTeib. : Mediterranean region. 
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5. M. livida DC. Syst. ii, (1821) 174 ; Boiss. FI. Or. i, (1367) 156.— 
Cheiruui/ius tris',is Forsk, Fl. Aeg.-Arab, (1775)^ 116 (non L,), 
