HECOBDS OF THE BOTANICAL SVUVEY OF INDIA. 
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8. Gyuandropsis DC. 
I. 0. peBtaphylla DC. Prodr. i, (1824)238; Boiss. FI. Or. i, (1867) 
410; Baker in Kew Bull. (1894) 329. — Cleome gynandraYovs^.^X. Aeg. 
Arab. (1775) CXVl, n. 401. C. pentaphylla L. Sp. pi. ed. 2, 938. Pedicellaria 
fentaphylla Sebrank in Roem. & U?teri Ma», Bot. iii, St. VIII (1790) 10 ; 
Schweinf, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. (1896), App. II, 185. 
Habitat: I. Border of the desert of Ka^a (Museh.). 
II. Yaman : Wady Fatimah and near Jiddah (Fischer 154 !)j near Unsert 
along the edges of fields (Schimp. 832 !). 
HI. Hadramaut : In cultivated fields at Katan, 1100 ft. (Lunt. !). 
IV. In fields near Masqat (Burnmiiller 27 I). 
FI. : Jan« 1893 (Bornmiiller); Feb. 1836 (Sohimp.) ; Feb. 1837 (Fischer). 
Fr. : Jan. 1893 (BornmUller); Feb. 1836 (Schimp.), 
Dtsteib. : Cosmopolitan, common weed. 
Vern. name •• Oheifahan (Forsk.). 
3. Maeroa Forsk. 
I. H. trassifolia Forsk. FI. Aeg. Arab. (1775) CXIII, p. 104 ; Schweinf. 
FI. d^Eg., p. 43 ; in Bull. Herb. Boiss. (1896), App. II, 119; Blatt.-Fl. Aden 
(1915) 103.— A/, unijiora Vahl Symb. i, 36; DC. Prodr. i, 254; Oiiv. FI 
Trop. Afr. i, (1868) 86; Baker in Kew Bull. (1894) 329. M, rigida R, 
Br. in Denb. & Clapp. App. 21 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i, (1868) 86. 
Habitat : I. Arabia Petr. : Sahara (Schimp. 898 1); Sinai and southward 
•(ex Post), 
II. Between Hodeidah and Massana (S. 178) ; foot of J. Bura, 1300 m. 
{S. 191); near Jiddah (Fischer!); Yaman (Eorsk) ; Aden (S. 70 I Birdwood I); 
Little Aden on J. Ishan (Defl. I) . 
III. Hadramaut (Lunt 161 !). 
IV. Masqat (Auch.-Eloy 4186 !)• 
FI.; Jan. 1835 (Schimp.); Jan. 1894 (Lunt) ; Dec. 1888 (S.)* 
Fr. : Jan. 1894 (Lunt) ; Dec. 1888 (S.). 
Disteib. : Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia, Libya, Kordofan, Senegam® 
bia, Angola. 
name : Meru (Forsk.): Morgam (Mosch.); Sserk (S.). 
S. Bl. neryosa Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i, (1838) 84; Defl. Yemen (18.89) 
WM.^Niehvhria nervosa Hoebst. in Flora (1844) 289. , Btrehlocarpus 
puhescens and >S. scandens Klotzscb in Peter^s Mossamb. Bot. 165. 
Habitat: II. Neighbou'’bood of Taez, alt, 1300 m (Defl. 683), 
Disteib. ; Zambesi, Cape, Arabia. 
