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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
Habitat : I. Tih escarpment (ex Post); Jebel et Tin below Rakineh, 
4;000 ft. (Boiss. !). 
Fl. : May (Boiss.). 
Distrib, : Endemic. 
3. S. areuaria Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) LXI, n. 89 ; Boiss. "Fl. Or. 
iii, (1875) 135 ; Post Fl. Syr. etc. (1896) 102 ; Musch. Fl. Eg. ii, (1912) 
931. — S. rhizantha Viv. Fl. Libyc. 6, t. 3. £. 1, (1824 ). — Asterocephalus 
arenarius Vis. PI. Aegypt. 6, t. 1, f. 1 (1836). — S. leptopoda Boiss. 
Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, x, 78. 
Habitat : I. Borders of et Tih and southwards (ex Post); Arabia 
Petraea (Boiss. !). 
Distrib. : Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Arabia i^etraea. 
3. S. Alicheri Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, fasc. 2, (1849) 111; 
Fl. Or. iii, (1875) 145 ; Post Fl. Syr. etc. (1896) 404; Musch. Fl. Eg. ii, 
(1912) 932. 
Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea (ex Musch.). 
Distrib. : Egypt, Arabia Petraea, Syria. 
4. S. columbaria L. Sp. PI. (.1753) 99 ; DC. Prodr. iv, 658; Boiss. Fl. 
Or. iii, (1875) 131 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, (1877) 252 ; Defl. Yemen 
(1889) 146. 
Habitat : II. Jebel Kahel neai’ Manakhah, 2,500 m. (Defl. 306) ; 
Manakhah, 2,300-2,600 m. (S. 1374 !). 
Fl. : Feb. 1889 (S.). 
Distrib. : Abyssinia, Lower Gruinea, widley scattered over Europe and 
the East. 
Vern. name : Gusai'-ur-rd^yd, VP ard el hammam (S.). 
5. S. ereiiiophila Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, fasc. x, (1849) 79; Fl. 
Or. iii, (1875) 135 ; Post Fl. Syr. etc. fl896V 402; Musch. Fl. Eg. ii, 
(1912) 931. 
Habitat : I. Borders of Et-Tih and southwards (ex Post); plain of 
Ramleh at foot of Jebel Tih (Boiss.). 
Distrib. : Egypt, Arabia Petraea. 
a. S. frutescens Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, (1877) 252. — 
Plerocep/taliis frutescens Hochst. in” Herb. Schimp. Abyss, i, n. 235 ; 
A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i, (1847) 369. — P. Quartinianus A. Rich. 1. c, 
VAR. immila Defl. Yemen 146. 
Habitat : II. Yaman : Ravines of Jebel Hadhur near Yazil and Suq 
el“Khamiss, 2,400 — 2,800 m. (Defl. 569 ! 577 !). 
DiSffRiB. : Of species : Abyssinia, Eritrea, Somaliland, Yaman. 
