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of bis travels are contained in the Bulletin de V Hevbier Boissier. 

 In 1884, 1885 and 1886 the French traveller Deflers collected a good 

 many plants in Aden and Little Aden. There appeared a list of the 

 species collected by him in the Bulletin de la Societe" Botanique de 

 France, 1885 and 1887. Krause, making use of the publications as 

 well as of the herbaria, gives in his " Beitnege " the names of 178 

 plants, of which 8, however, are found only in Little Aden. We are 

 much indebted to Bird wood, as his herbarium enables us to give a more 

 complete catalogue of the interesting flora of Aden. 



After having enumerated the species we intend to add some biologi- 

 cal and plant-geographical notes. (An asterisk before the name of a 

 plant means that the species has not been examined by me.) 

 MENISPERMACE^]. 



1. Cocculus leseba, DO. Syst. veg. I, 529. — Cebatha et Leobba, 

 Forsk. Fl. seg.-arab. p. 171-172. — Menispermum leceba, Delil Fl. seg. 

 ill. 30. desc. t. 51. f. 2. 3. — Menispermum edide, Vahl. Symb. I. 80. — 

 Cocadus elliptkus, DC. Syst. veg. I. 526. Cocculus glaber, W. & A. 

 Prodr. p. 13. 



Distrib. — Gujarat, Sind, Punjab, Afghanistan, Middle and S. 

 Arabia, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Nubia, Egypt, Senegambia, Cape Verd 

 Islands. 



2. Cocculus sp. 



For want of sufficient material I have not been able to specify this 

 plant. 



CRUCIFEM. 



3. Farsetia longisiliqua, Dene, Ann. So. Nat. Ser. II. IV. 

 69. — I consider this plant to be identical with F. stylosa, Anders. Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. V. Suppl. p. 1, and Mathiola stylosa, Hochst. et Steud. in 

 Schimp. PI. Arab. Fel. n. 860. 



Distrib. — Arabia, Socotra, Erythrea, Nubia, Egypt. 



4. Diplotaxis pendula, DC. Syst. II. 630 ; Prodr. I. 222.— 

 Sisymbrium pendulum^ Desf. Fl. atl. 2. p. 82. t. 156. — Sisymbrium 

 hispidum, Vahl. Symb. II. 77. — Diplotaxis harra, Boiss. Fl. Or. I. 388. 

 — Diplotaxis crassifolia, DC. Syst. II. 629. — Diplotaxis hispida, DC. 

 Syst. II. 630. 



Distrib. — Arabia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Abyssinia, Northern 

 Africa, Sicily, Spain. 



