202 
RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
Bryonia obticsa a . — ? C. trilohatus FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 
168. — C. Figarei Del. Cat. Hort. Monsp. ex Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
ser. 4, xi^ 16 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. ii, (1871) 543 ; Defl. Yemen (1889) 139. 
VAR. eclliuoplioriis Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi, 16 ; Defl.- Y"emen 
(1889) 139. 
Habitat: IT. Jebel Bura, Hille (S. 336 !); near Hajellah, 600 m. (Defl. 
79); Mor (Ehrenb.). 
Fl. : Jan. 1889 (S.). Fr. : Jan. 18S9 (S.). 
Distrib. : Angola, Senegambia, Guinea, Abyssinia, Arabia. 
Vern. name : ^chirwe (S.). 
VAR. iicifolius Naud. 1. c. 
H abitat : I. Arabia Petraea (McDonald!). 
II. Yaman (Botta); Aden (Thomson!). 
Distrib. : Abyssinia, Arabia. 
4. C. iiiedulis Forsk. Fl, Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXXII, n. 580. — C. sativfi.sf 
aralcis Forsk. 1. c. 169. 
Habitat: II. Mor, Lohaja (Forsk.). 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
Vevn. name : AraTcis (Forsk.) . 
5. C. melo L. Sp. PI. (1753) lOll; Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 168 ; 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, (1871) 546; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 
(1881) 482 ; Defl. Yemen (1889) 225 ; Krause in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxv, 
(1905) 737. 
HaiSitat : II. Wady Kebir (Ellenb.); cultivated in Yaman (Defl. !). 
Distrib. : Indigenous in tropical Africa and S. Asia, culti^ ated in all 
warm and temperate regions. 
Vern. name: cherir (Ellenb.), Battikh asfar (Post). 
VAR. agrestis Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi, 73 and xii, 110. — 
a c/iate L. Sp. PI. (1762) 1437 ; Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 168. 
Habitat : II. Jebel Bura, Hille (S. 240 !). 
Vern. name : Miiqti (Post), Smitt (S.). 
VAR. culta Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1877) pt. 2, 102 ; Cogn, 
in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. (1881) 484.— C. satiims vars. Faking, Smlli et 
Stchemmam) Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1776)169. — Q. orientalis ? Forsk. 1. c. 
CXXII, n. 579. 
Habitat: II. Lohaja (Forsk.). 
Vern. name: StnilH (Forsk.) ; in Egypt : FaJtxt, Schemmam (Forsk.). 
6. C. olloeliic Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXXII, n. 583. 
Habitat: II. UP-hfad (Forsk.). 
