184/.] ^ couple of hours' Herborization at Aden. 1213 



pedunculatis, sepalis insequalibus glanduloso — pilosis 2 planiusculis, 2 

 concavis, petalo unico albido longe unguiculato ungue tubuloso nectari- 

 fero limbo ovato. Stam. 5 breviter monadelphis inaequalibus 2 minori- 

 bus, 2 majoribus 1 maximo, ovario longe stipitato stigmate sepili 

 capsula stipitata setis clavatis hispida. 

 An C. glandidosa, Forsk. ? differt petalo unico nee nullo. 



Capparis uncinata. — Nov. spec : fruticosa glaberrima, stipulis 

 2 spinosis uncinatis, foliis petiolatis crassis ovatis (directione obli- 

 quis) acutis apice spinoso-uncinatis, pedunculis solitaris 1-floris folio 

 multo longioribus, sepalis saccatis, petalis 4, albis, 2 inferioribus 

 dolabriformibus intus lanatis 2 superioribus subrotundis glabris, stam. 

 numerossimis antheris albidis, thecoplioro fmctifero pedunculo longiore, 

 fructum cylindraceum longum, semina numerosissima. 



An C. cegyptiaca, D. C. ? at videtur *' foliis uncinato-spinosis ,, 

 diversa. Flores magni speciosi albi. 



Resedacece. 



Resedse species foliis grassiusculis suffrutescens. 



Having no book referring to the Resedaceee, I refrain from inserting 

 any details. 



Poly galea. 



Polygala Arabica, tiov. spec. (Sect. III. Blepharidium, D. C. 

 p. 826) ; omnino pilis sursim adpressis incana, foliis alternis brevissime 

 petiolatis ellipticis obtusis, racemis pauce floris, alis oblique obovatis 

 obtusis pubescentibus, capsulam ina3qualiter obcordatam marginatam 

 ciliatam, seminibus longe pilosis. 



An P. erioptera ? at foliis nee glabris nee acutis-valde affinis P. 

 serpyllifolise differt cupsula marginatd y pilis etiam seminis longioribus. 



Carina cristata rosea. Seminis canniculo basi piloso stipitato, arillus 

 3-partitus seminis basim paullo superans segmento uno angnstiore 

 longiore. In P. serpyllifolio pilis seminibus fuscent, in P. Bothiand 

 semen multo grossius pilis brevioribus tegitur, stipiti omnino arilla 

 abscondito. 



Zygophyllece. 



Fagonia Arabica. — D. C. 



This answers the description fully, and is quite identical with the 

 species so common near the Sutlej, which I believed to be F. Myso- 

 rensis, but the spines are smooth, not hispid as described in thai 



