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BECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
3. R. damasceiia Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, n. 15 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. (1896) App. II, 205. 
Habitat : II. Manakhah, 2,500 m. (S. 15S3 !); above Hille in the 
coffee region (S. 420). 
Distkib. : Orient. 
4. E. iiidica L. Sp. PL (1753) 492 ; Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 
CXIII, 11. 327. 
Habitat : II. Hadiyab (Forsk.) Cultivata ? 
Distrib. : China. 
5. E. villosa L. Sp. PI. (1753) 491 ; DC. Prodr. ii, (1825) 619 ; 
Dene. FI. Sin. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. iii, (1835) 264. 
Habitat : I. Gardens of Sinai (Bov^ !). 
Distrib. : Europe, Central Asia. 
8. Neiirada L. 
1. N. procumbeiis L. Sp. PI. (1753) 441 ; Dene. FI. Sin. in Ann. Sc. 
Nat. ser. 2, iii, (1835) 263 ; Schenk Sp, PI. it. Aeg.-Arab. & Syr. (1840) 
n. 209 ; Kotschy in Sitzb. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Hi, (1866) 13 ; Oliv. FI. 
Trop. Afr. ii, (1871) 382 ; Boiss. FI. Or. ii, (1872) 735 ; Post FI. Syr. 
etc, (1896) 309 ; C.arter in Rec. Bot, Surv. Ind. vi, (1917) 1S9. — Figaria 
aegyptiaca Viv. PI. Egypt, decad. iv, 13, t. 1. 
Habitat: I. Sinai (Auch.-Eloy 1491, Holland !); Wady Ghurundel and 
Ramleh (Lord !); Desert of Sinai (Bov5 160 !); Ras Haman (Schimp. 
240 !); Arabia Petraea (McDonald, Boiss.); between Wady Feiran and 
Maghura, Wady Shellal (Kneuck.); El Araba (ex Schenk); N. and S. Midian 
(Burton !). 
II. Jiddah (Fischer 199 ! Zohrab 89 I); Hijaz (ex Kotschy). 
IV. Zor Hills (Cox 44). 
Fl. : Feb. 1837 (Fischer), June 1832 (Bovf). 
Fr. : Feb. 1837 (Fischer), Mar. 1835 (Schimp.), Apr. 1846 (Boiss.), 
Apr. 1868 (Lord), June 1832 (Boyd), Noy. 1870 (Holland). 
Distrib. : Algeria, Nubia, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Persia, Baluchistan, 
Afghanistan, N. W. India. 
Tern, naioe : Saadan (Burton), Sadann (Bovd). 
Note : Eaten by man and beast (Burton). 
0. Cydoilia Tour a. 
t. €. vulgaris Pers. Syn. ii, 40 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii, (1872) 656 ; Ded. 
Yemen (1889) 223. 
Habitat : II. Cultivated in Yaman (Defl.). 
Distrib. : Mediterranean, Caucasus. 
