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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
3. A. abyssiuica Sch.-Bip. iil Herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. Ill, ii. 
1862 ; Rich. FI. Abyss, i, (1847) 420 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. iii, (1877) 400. 
— A. pontica Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXIX, n. 489. 
Habitat : II. Culfeivated in the plains and mountains of Yaman 
(Forsk.). 
Distrib. : Abyssinia, Yaman. 
Vern. name : Baetran, Qhohaejre, Rand (Forsk.). 
3. A. arboroscoiis L. Sp. PI. (1762) 1188 ; Boiss. FI. Or. iii, (1875) 
372 ; Post FI. Syr. etc. (1896) 441; Krause in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxv, 
(1905) 737. 
Habitat: IT. I'^ear Lahaj (Busse). 
Distrib. : Mediterranean region, Arabia. 
Vern. name : athaldn, ihser (Ellenbeck). 
4. A, Herba alba Asso. Syn. Stirp. Arag. (1 779) 117, t. 8, f. 1; Boiss. 
FI. Or. iii, (1875) 365; Post Fb Syr. etc. (1896) 440; Musch. Verb. Bot. 
Ver. Prov. Brandenb. xlix, (1907) 125. 
FIabitat : I. Wady er-Raha (Holland!); Wady Barak and Wady 
Lebweh (Hart!) ; Wady es Sle, Wady Hebiun, Jebel Hammam-Sidna- 
Musa (Musch.). 
Distrib. : Canaries, N. Africa, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria, Persia, 
Afghanistan. 
Vern. name ; ghorerd (Musch.), (Post). 
5. A.jn(laica> L. Amoen. ii, (1756) 463; Djne. FI. Sin. in Ann. Sc. 
Nat. ser. 2, ii, (1834) 265; Schenk Sp. PI. it. Aeg. Arab. & Syr. (1840) 
n. 180 ; Boiss. FI. Or. iii. (1875) 371 ; Post PI. Syr. etc. (1896) 441; Musch. 
Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. xlix, (1907) 124. 
Habitat : I. Sinai : Om Shomer (Drake 38!); Desert of Suez and Sinai 
(Bov^ 98!); Wady Shaikh (Schimp. 128! Riippell) ; Sinai to Egypt 
(ex Post) ; Aiubia Petraea (Pinard! McDonald!); Desert of Ka^a (Musch.) ; 
all over the Sinai Peninsula (Kneuck.). 
Fl.: Mar. 1877 (S.), Apr. 1835 (Schimp.), June 1832 (Bove). 
Fr.: Mar. 1877 (S.),*Apr. 1835 (Schimp.), June 1832 (Bove). 
Distrib.: Egypt, Arabia Petraea. 
Vern. name ; Berteranui Baskarann ou chejh (Bove), Bu’laiterdn (Post). 
Baatkeran (Schimp.), of Genes. II, 5 — XXI, .5, the scJiib of Holy Ahbas 
and of Aviconna (Musch.). 
Note : The Bedouins put branches of this plant into the nose of the camel in order to 
prevent the camel-tly from laying its eggs in the nostrils of the animal (Kneuck.). 
Arabian woimwood from whence worm powder. 
