“…In the following, we discuss the distribution of the genera in common between India (see bibliography above) and neighboring regions belonging to the Indo-East African Province, defined in comparison with previous publications: Madagascar (Grékoff, 1963;Sigal et al, 1970;Rafara, 1990;Hankel, 1994;Luger et al, 1994;Mette, 2004aMette, , 2004bMette and Geiger, 2004a, 2004b, 2004c, Mozambique (Whatley et al, 2005), Tanzania (Bate, 1975(Bate, , 1977Aberhan et al, 2002;Schudack and Schudack, 2002;Sames, 2008), India (Sigal et al, 1970), Australia (Lord et al, 1991;Damotte, 1992;Malz and Oertli, 1993;Lord et al, 2006;offshore Western Australia: Oertli, 1974), Somalia (Luger et al, 1990;Mette, 1993;Luger et al, 1994), Saudi Arabia (Dépêche et al, 1987). We then consider provinces lying farther north along the margins of West Gondwana: Jordania (Basha, 1980(Basha, , 1992, Lebanon (Bischoff, 1964(Bischoff, , 1990a(Bischoff, , 1990bColin et al, 2008), Syria Dobrova, 1995, 1997), Israel (Maync, 1966;Rosenfeld et al, 1987aRosenfeld et al, , 1987bHonigstein, 1991, 1998), Egypt (Wasfi et al, 1982), Tunisia (Mette, 1995(Mette, , 1997…”