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each cell, pendulous; testa crustaeeous ; albumen scanty; cotyledons 

 oblong. — DiSTRiB. Natives chiefly of the Cape and Australia; species 

 about 54. 



Annual; leaves simple, cylindric 1. Z. simplex. 



Pei-ennial ; leaves 2-foliolate 2. Z. cuccincum. 



1. Zygophyllum simplex, Linn. Mantiss. v. 1 (1767) p. 68. 

 A succulent watery much - branched procumbent herb; branches 

 slender, reddish, striate, glabrous. Leaves small, subsessile, cylindric, 

 oblong or obovate, obtuse, fleshy ; stipules lanceolate, acute. Flowers 

 small. Sepals obovate, cucullate at the apex. Petals yellow, spathulate, 

 spreading, margins flat. Staminal-scale bipartite, hyaline, the segments 

 obovate. Ovary turbinate, glabrous, ribbed ; style tapering. Capsules 

 deflexed, rugulose, separating- into 5 compressed 3-5-seeded cocci. 

 Seeds minute, oblong, attenuated at both ends, smooth. El. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 424; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 1. p. 912; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 266; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 375.— 

 Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Veen. Puildni. 



Very common all OTer Sine). The plant is eaten by camels. Sind : Boyle !, Stocks ! ; 

 Hala range, Vicar//]; Karachi, Cooke ], Woodrow] — Disteib. Arabia, tropical Africa, 

 Western Asia. 



2. Zygophyllum coccineum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 386. 

 Suffruticose ; branches woody, striate and papillose, hoary at first with 

 a white powdery tomentum, at length glabrous. Leaves 2-foliolate, 

 powdery ; petioles stout, fleshy, grooved, longer than the leaflets ; 

 stipules triangular, scarious ; leaflets oblong, cylindric or semicylindric, 

 obtuse, minutely powdery. Flowers solitary, white or tinged witli 

 yellow. Sepals fleshy, cucullate, the margins membranous. Petals 

 spathulate, spreading, longer than the sepals, undulate on the margin. 

 Staminal-scale ovate-lanceolate, entire or lacerate at the apex. Ovary 

 glabrous or velvety. Capsules | in. long, oblong or obovoid, 5-ribbed, 

 truncate at the base and the apex ; cocci 3-5-seeded. Seeds small, 

 ovoid, acute, tubercled, compressed. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 425 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 1, p. 915. 



Rare. Sind : on hills, Stocksl 



5. FAGONIA, Linn. 



Branching herbs woody at the base, erect or prostrate. Leaves 

 opposite, 1-3-foliolate, the leaflets quite entire, mucronate ; stipules 

 often spiny. Flowers solitary from among the stipules, rosy or violet, 

 rarely yellow. Sepals 5, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 5, clawed, 

 caducous, imbricate. Disk short, inconspicuous. Stamens 10, inserted 

 on the disk ; filaments filiform, naked ; anthers shortly oblong. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-gonous, 5-celled, narrowed into a 5-gonous svibulate style ; 

 ovules 2, near the base of the cell, collateral, pendulous from ascending 

 funicles ; stigma simple. Fruit 5-gonous, of 5 1-seeded cocci which 

 dehisce along the ventral suture and separate from a horny endocarp. 

 Seeds erect, compressed, broadly oblong ; testa mucilaginous ; albumen 

 horny ; cotyledons broad, flat, ovate. — Distbib. Widely dispersed 

 throughout the Mediterranean and the Eastern regions, rarer in S. 

 Africa, California and Chili ; species 2 or 3, well-defined. 



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