150 
ItECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SVRVEY OF INDIA. 
Distrib. : Upper Egypt, Nubia, Libya, Abyssinia, highlands of Somali* 
land, Socotra, Arabia. 
Vern. name: Tawil (Burton), Amyixnah (Post), Obeira. 
J^ote : Eaten by animals (Burton). 
3. T. Boivini nov. comh.-^Poyonostiyma Boivini Jaub. & Sp. 111. PI. 
Or, V, (1853-57) t. 476. 
Habitat : II. Near Hes (Boivin). 
Ff.. : Jan. 1845 (Boivin). Fr. : Jan. 1845 (Boivin). 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
4. T. decorticans Taub. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii, 184. 
Habitat : III. Hadramaut (Hirsch 79 !). 
Distrib. : Somaliland, Hadramaut. 
5. T. desertorum Scheele in Linnaea> xvii, (1843) p. 338. 
Habitat : II- Jiddah (Schimp. 770 ! Fischer 85 I Zohrab 120 ! 124 !)-. 
Fl. ; Mar. 1881 (S.), Dec. 1835 (Schimp.), Dec. -Jan. (Fischer). 
Fr. :Mar. 1881 (S.), Dec. 1835 (Schimp.), Dec.-Jan. (Fischer). 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
6. T. diffusa w. fe A. Prodr. 213 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
(1896) App. II, purpurea Pers. var. pumila Baker in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. ii, pt. iv, (1876) 113. 
Habitat : II. Wasil, 1,400 m. (S. 1147 1), above Hille, 700-1,000 m. 
(S. 403); Aggara 600 m. (S. 1026). 
Fl. : Jan., Feb. 1889 (S.). Fb.: Jan., Feb. 1889 (S.), 
Distrib. : Everywhere in the tropica. 
T. dura Baker in Kew Bull. (1804) 331. 
Habitat : III. Hadramaut •: near Skibara, 2,000 ft. (Lunt 171 !)• 
Fr. : Jan. 1894 (Lunt)-. 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
8. T. elata Defl. Yemen (1889) 130. 
Habitat : II. Yaraan : Foot of Mt Suinaru, 1,800 ft. (Defl. 653 !)• 
Distrib.: Endemic. 
9. T. geminiflora Baker in Kew Bull. (1895) 3l6i 
Habitat : III. Hadramaut (Hirsch 94). 
Distrib. : Endemic, 
