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BECOBDS OF THE BOTANICAL SUBVEY OF INDIA. 
Habitat : IV. Zor Hills (Cox 11). 
Distrib. : Southern Persia and Caucasia. 
Vern. name : Tar])ah (Cox). 
LVI. COMPOSITAE. 
1. Veriioiiia Schreb. 
1. V. abyssiilica Sch.-Bip. ex Hochst. in Flora, xxiv, latell. I, 26 ; Oli^r. 
FI. Trop. Afr. iii, (1877) 288; Defl. Yemen (1889) 147. — V. pol^morplia 
Vatke in Linnaea, xxxix, (1875) 476. 
Habitat: IL Wasi), 1,200 m. (S. 1173 !)• near Mefhik, 1,80() m. (Defl. 
604). 
Fl. : Feb. 1839 (S.). Fr. : Feb. 1889 (S.). 
Discrib. : Abyssinia, Eritrea, Yaman. 
Note : The leaves are used as an efficacious purgative (Steudner). 
'Z. V. areysiaua Defl. in Ball. Soc. Bot. France, xliii, (1896) 104. 
Habitat : II. Jebel el Areys near Serrya (Defl. 987 1 ). 
Fl. : Apr. 1893 (Defl.). Fr. : Apr. 1893 (Defl.). 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
3. V. atriplicifolia Jaub. & Sp. III. PI. Or. iv, 94, t. 359 : Anders. 
PI. Aden. (1860) 21 ; Bois^. Fl. Or. iii, (1873) 134 ; Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. 
iii, (18?7) 270; Blatt. Fl. Aden (1915) 222. — V. spathtdata Sch.-Bip. 
ex A sobers, in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 162 [non Hochst .). — V. arabica 
Dene, ex Boiss. 1. c. — Chrysocoma spathulata Forsk. Fl. Aejg.-Arab. 
(1775) CXIX, n. 487 and p. 147. 
Habitat : II. Yaman (ex Boiss.); Taez (Forsk.); Aden (Thomson 94 ! 
Wiesner ! Hook. f. 74 ! S. 9 110! Balfour ! Perry ! Birdw. ! Anders. ! 
Defl. ! Edgew. !). 
III. Hadramaut (Hirsch 6); Dhofar coast (Bent 51 !); Merbat 
(Bent 3 !). 
IV. Masqat : J. Akhadhar (Auch.-Eloy 4791 !); in rocky 
places of Masqat (Bornm. 396 !). 
Fl. : Mar. 1878 (Perry). 
Fr. : Jan. 1872 (Thomson), Jan. 1893 (Bornm.), Feb. 1857 (Thomson), 
Mar. 1878 (Perry), Mar. 1881 (S.), Apr. 1861 (Thomson), Nov. 1888 
(S.), Dec. 1847 (Hook.). 
Distrib. : Nile Land, Somaliland, Arabia. 
4. V, Bottae Jaub. & Sp. 111. Fl. Or. t. 358. 
Habitat : II. Yaman (Botta). 
Distrib. : Endemic. 
