Zygophyllum.] xxxi. ZYGOPHYLLE^E. (Edgeworth & Hooker.) 425 



pressed 2-3-seeded cocci. Seeds fusiform, smooth. The seeds are swept up by the 

 nomad tribes of the Multan desert, and eaten under the name of Alathi. 



2. Z. coccineum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. i. 706; perennial, leaves 2-f olio- 

 late. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 915. 



Rocky ground in SINDH, Stocks, Vicary. DISTRIB. Syria, Arabia, Egypt. 



Stem shrubby below, with erect or ascending hoary at length glabrous branches. 

 Leaves petioled ; leaflets terete, grooved or semiterete, minutely powdery ; stipules tri- 

 angular, scarious. Peduncle equalling the petiole. Sepals ovate, cucullate, fleshy, 

 shorter than the spathulate white undulate petals. Scales lanceolate, entire or torn. 

 Capsule erect, grooved, cylindiic-ovoid, truncate. Seeds small, ovoid, tubercled, acute, 

 compressed. The flowers open in the middle of the day. 



4. FAGONXA, Linn. 



Branching woody herbs. Leaves opposite, 1-3-foliolate, entire, mucronate ; 

 stipules usually spiny. Peduncle solitary from between the stipules. Sepals 

 5, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 5, closed, caducous, imbricate. Disk short, 

 inconspicuous. Stamens 10, inserted on the disk, filaments filiform, naked ; 

 anthers oblong. Ovary sessile, 5-cornered, 5-celled. tapering into a subulate 

 style, stigma simple ; ovules 2, collateral at the base of each cell, pendulous 

 from ascending funicles. Fruit 5-cornered, 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. DISTRIB. Species variously estimated from 

 2 or 3 to 30, being very variable and difficult to define. 



1. F. arabica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. i. 704; glandular, young branches 

 terete striate, spines exceeding the linear leaflets. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 907. 

 F. mysorensis, Roth. ; DC. I.e.; Waif. Cat. 6853; W. & A. Prodr. 145; 

 Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 45 ; Wight III. i. t. 64. F. cretica var. arabica, 

 T. Anders, in J own. Linn. Soc. v. Huppl. i. 12 ; Oliver Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 287. 



Throughout NORTH WESTERN INDIA, SINDH, the PANJAB, and the southern provinces 

 of the WESTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Westward to Egypt. 



A small green spiny undershrub, with erect branches, more or less glandular. 

 Leaves 1-3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or li..ear, acute; petiole often foliaceous. 

 Flowers small, pale rose-coloured. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, half as long as the petals. 

 Capsule pubescent, about as long as the recurved peduncle. Seeds punctulate. 



2. F. Brug-uieri, DC. Prodr. i. 704 ; glandular, young branches snbte- 

 tragonous sides grooved, spines exceeding the ovate rather fleshy leaflets. 

 Boiss. FL Orient, i. 905. F. Echinella, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 1, viii. 123. 

 F. cretica var. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 12. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA ; Peshawur, Herb. Falconer, Stewart; Chandnist, Edgeworth. 

 DISTRIB. Westward to Algeria. 



Similar to F. arabica, and like it referable by many authors to a variety of F. cretica. 

 Internodes short ; branches procumbent. Lower leaves 3-foliolate, the rest 1-foliolatu ; 

 leaflets minute. The form distinguished as Echinella by Boissier, has crowded decus- 

 sate branches, and very short leaves. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



FAGONIA MONTANA, Miq. ; see Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 596, is Monetia tetracantna. 



