Zygophyllum.] xxxi. ZYGorHYLLB^. (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. cocclneum, Linn.; DC. Prod/r. i. 706; perennial, leaves 2-f olio- 

 late. Boiss. FL Orient, i. 915. 



Eooky ground in Sindh, Stochs, 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, cyliudric-ovoid,, truncate. Seeds sAall, ovoid, tubercled, acute, 

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



4 FAGONIA, Linn. 



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

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

 S, 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 

 frotii ascending fuuicles. Fruit 5-cornered, of 5 1-seeded cocci whicli 

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

 erect, compressed, broadly oUong, testa mucilaginous, albumen horny ; 

 cotyledons broad, flat,, ovate. — Distkib. Species variously estimated from 

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



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

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

 F. mysorensis, Roth.; DO. I.e.; Wall. Oat. 6853; W. <b A. Prudr. 145; 

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

 T. Anders. inJowm. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 12 ; Oliver Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 287. 



Throughout North Western Ikdia, Sindh, the Panjab, and the southern provinces 

 of the Western Peninsula. — Distkib. Westward to Egypt. 



A small green spiny nndershrub, 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, DO. Prodr. i. 704 ; glandular, young branches subte- 

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

 Bom. 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, Steviart ; Chandnist, Edgeworth.— 

 Distrib. Westward to Algeria. 



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

 Intemodes short; branches procumbent. Lower leaves 3-foliolate, the rest l-foliolate; 

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

 sate branches, and very short leaves. . 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Fagoiha MONTANA, Mi^. ; see Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 596, is Monetia tetracantha.. 



