FLORA AEABICA, 
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Habitat : II. Near Heathalim (Ellenb.). 
Distrib. : Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
Vern. name ; gemirn (Ellenb.). 
3. Lulfa Tourn. 
1 . L. cylilulrica Roem. dyn. £asc. 2, p. 63 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 
Plianerog. ili, (1881) 4^56. — L. arabuni Dill. Cat. PI. Giss. Append, p. 157, 
t. 11. — Turia monoica pentandra Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 165, 
n. 35. — T.folUs cordatis Forsk. 1. c. CXXI, 551 and p. 166, n. 37. 
Habitat : II. Mor (Ehrenb. !); cultivated in Yaman (Forsk.). 
Distrib. : Tropics of Old World. 
Vern. name : turia (Forsk.). 
Sjoecies dubia. 
Turia Leloja Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXXI, n. 552 and p. 165. 
( = Luffa sp. ?) 
4. Eclialliuill A. Rich. 
1 . E. Elaterium Rich, in Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vi, 19 ; Boiss. FI. Or., 
ii, (1872) 760 ; Post FI. Syr. etc. (1896) 324. 
Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (ex Post). 
Distrib. : Mediterranean region. 
Vern. name : giththd-el-hamdr (Post). 
Note: The inspissated juice is an exceedingly drastic and irritating, oflBcinal 
cathaitic. 
5. Cuouniis L. 
1. C. daucus indicus Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXXII, n. 581. 
H ABiTAT : II. Zebid, Beit el fakih (Forsk.). 
Distrib. j Endemic. 
Vern. name : DJussar henii (Forsk.). 
[ Indis : Gadjer, Schekarkand (Forsk.).] 
3. 0. dipaceus Ehrenb. in Spaoh Veg. Phan, vi, 2II; Oliv. FI. Trop. 
Afr. ii, (1871) 543; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii, (1881) 5U0. — 
Momordica dasycarpa Hochst. ; Rich. FI. Abyss, i, (1847) 291, 
Habitat : I. Wady Kamme (Ehrenb. !). 
II. Cultivated in Yaman (Dell.). 
Distrib. : Upper Guinea, Kordofan, Abyssinia, Nubia, Arabia. 
3. C. ficifolius Rich. FI. Abyss, i, (1847) 294, t. 53 bis; Cogn. in' 
DC. Monogr. Phanerog. (1881) 493.— -C. abysHnicus Rich. 1, c.— • 
