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FLOUULA APEtfEXSTS. 



2. Saltia, B. Br. 



S. papposa {Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. pars 2. p. 325). SufFruticosa, 



cinerea, caule erecto, subtereti, pauce ramoso, eortice cinereo ; ramis 



patulis, eortice viridi, puberulis ; foliis alternis, subsessilibus, infimis 



in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis. linearibus, acutis, mucronulatis, 



crassiusculis, enerviis, glabris, glaucis ; spicis brevibus, angustis, in 



ramis terminalibus ; floribus approximatis, 2-3-bracteatis ; bracteis 



parvis, una persistente, carinatis, mucronatis, villosulis; sepalis 5, 



exterioribns duobus altera paulo superantibus, ovatis, coneavis, acutis, 



4-nerviis, villosis, interioribus 3-nerviis ; staminibus 5 ; filamentis sub- 



ulatis, compressis, basi dilatatis atque in cupulam connatis; antheris 



bilocularibus, ovatis; stylo simplici, tereti, staminibus fere duplo 



longiore ; stigmate capitato, globoso, integro ; ovario ovoideo, glabro, 



uniovulato. — Achyranthes papposa, Forsk. MSS. 



Hab. Aden, in solo arenoso (Hook. fit. ! T. Anders.). 



Distr. In Arabia Felici. 



Some confusion has occurred in the synonomy of this plant. Moquin- 

 Tandon, in De Candolle's ' Prodromus,' has cited Schimper's number 

 977 as referring to Saltia papposa. In the Hookerian Herbarium this 

 number is attached to a species of Convolvulacere, Seddera intermedia, 

 Hochst. et Steudel (Cressa mihi), and, as such, is also quoted by Choisy in 

 the 9th volume of the ' Prodromus,' p. 440. Fearing some mistake in 

 the ticket, I wrote to M. Spach ; and he kindly examined Schimper's 

 number 977 in the Paris Herbarium, the specimen seen both by Choisy 

 and Moquin-Tandon. He assures me that it is a true Seddera. M. 

 Spach, in addition, corrects an important error in the habitat of M. Botta's 

 specimens of Saltia papposa as recorded by Moquin-Tandon. M. 

 Botta did not obtain his specimens at Mount Sinai, but in Arabia Felix- 

 according to his ticket, in "Yemen, environs de Hamara et de Hais." 

 Tab. III. Fig. 1, young state of flower; 2, matured fruit and two sterile 

 flowers ; 3, single bristle from a sterile flower ; 4, one of the five sepals, 

 with stamens and ovary ; 5, showing relative position of stamens and 

 ovary ; 6, mature fruit, with the persistent stamens at the base. All are 

 magnified. 



Ordo XXXIV. PAEONTCHIACE^E. 



1. Cometes, Burm. 

 C. Abyssinica (R. Br. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. p. 18). Caule erecto, 

 ramoso; foliis oppositis, saepe uncinato-verticillatis, linearibus, lan- 

 ceolatis, breviter petiolatis; stipulis scariosis, minutis, subulato-acutis ; 

 pedunculis in ultimis ramulis, axillaribus, floribus 3-4 ; bracteis op- 

 positis, pungentibus, reflexis, villosis, demum aristis pinnatis; caly- 

 cibus 5-partitis; segmentis marginibus membranaceis, apice fim- 

 briato-ciliatis, duobus exterioribns coneavis, pungenti-apiculatis ; co- 



