FLORA ARABICA , 
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Habitat : I. Summit of Mt. Hor (Hart) ; from Wady Zewerah to 
Bir es Seba and Tel Abou Hereireb (Hart). 
Distrib. of type : North temperate region. 
6. C. distans L. Syst. ed. X, 1263. 
Habitat : I. Arabia Petraea. 
Distrib. : Western Asia, N. America. 
€X1X. GRAMINEAE. 
1. Imperata Cyrill. 
I. I. cyiindriea Beauv. Agrost. 165, t. 5, fig. 1. 
Habitat : I. Desert of Sinai (Bov6 16 !J ; Sinai (Holland 1) ; Wadies 
Zelegah and Elain : Ghor es Safieh (Hart). 
Fr. : June 1832 (Bov4). 
Distrib. : The hotter parts of the Old World. 
Vem. name ; Halfeh (Bov4). 
Saccharum L. 
I. S. biflorum Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. 16. 
Habitat : I. Sinai (Herb. Kew !). 
Distrib. : Egypt, Syria, Sinai, Palestine. 
%. S. spoutaneum L. Mant. (1771) 183. 
Habitat : II. Oasis of Lahadj (Defl. 147). 
Fr. : Dec. 1889 (Defl.). 
Distrib. : Tropics of the Old World. 
3. S. officinale L. Sp. PI. 54. 
Habitat : II. Yaman (Herb. Kew !). 
Distrib. : Cultivated in warm regions. 
4. S. Ravennae L. Syst. ed. XIII, 88. — Erianthus Ravennae Beauv. 
Agrost. 162. 
Habitat : I. Ghor es Safieh (Hart). 
Distrib. : Western Himalaya, Pimjab, Upper Gangetic Plain, Sind, 
extending westwards to the Mediterranean. 
3. Rottboeliia L. f. 
I. R. hirsuta Vahl Symb. Bot. I, 11. — Coelorackis hirsuta Brongn. 
in Duperr. Voy. Coq. Bot. 64, 1. 14 (1829) 65, in obs. — Saccharum hirsutum 
Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. 16. 
Habitat : I. Desert of Sinai (Bov6 18) ; Sinai (Bov4 !). 
II. Perim Island (H. K. !) ; near Jedda (Schimp. 791 !) ; 
