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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Leseba Forsk. FI. A eg. -Arab. (1775) 172. 
Leseba dubia Gmel.in Linn. Syst. Nat. II (1791) 567. 
Cebatha Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab, (1775) 171. 
Cebatha edulis Forsk, ex Yalil Symb. Bot. I (1790) 80. 
Cebatba pendula O. Ktze Rev. Gen. I (1891) 9; Hiern in Welw. 
PL Afr. I (1896) 18. 
Epibaterium pendulum Fjrst. Gen. (1776) 108, tab. 54. 
Menispermum edule Vahl Symb. Bot. I (1790) 80; Lam. Diet. IV 
(1797) 99 ; Willd. Sp. PI. IV (1805) 828. 
Menispermum leseba Delile in Descript. Egypt, t. 31, f. 2, 3 (1813). 
Menispermum ellipticum Poir. in Lam. Encyl. XI [ Suppl. III.] 
(1813) 657. 
Adenocheton phyllanthoides FenzI in Flora XXVII (1841) 312. 
Bricchettia somalensis Pax in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma VI (1897) 181. 
Arabic name : Turrach, ssaq-el-ghorab (Schweinf.). 
Description : A scandent shrub with slender glabrous or glabrate, 
striate, pale or ashen, leafy branchlets. Leaves small, rather coriaceous, 
lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate-ovate or obtusely trapezoidal, entire or 
sometimes obscurely lobed, mucronate, cuneate or rather rounded at the 
base, more or less glaucous, J-1J inches long, £-J inch broad; petioles 
hairy. 
Flowers axillary, small, inserted in a hairy tubercle, the males 
clustered in dense axillary fascicles, the females solitary, rarely twin. 
Petals of the male flowers deeply and acutely emarginate, with 2 lateral 
lobes embracing the stamens. Ovaries 3. 
Drupe obovoid, keeled, compressed ; style-scar basal. 
Flowers : January 1880 (Balfour), November (Schweinf.). 
Locality : Valley north of the Shum Shum Range above Maala 
village, plain of Maala, scandent on Salvadora (Defl., Schweinf.) ; with- 
out locality (Birdw., Perry) . 
Distribution : Gujarat, Sind, Punjab, Afghanistan, Central and 
Southern Africa, Socotra, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Eritrea, Nubia, Egypt, 
Senegambia, Cape Verd Islands. 
Uses : According to Forskal the Arabs prepare a liquor from the fruit 
of this plant which they call ‘ Chamr el madjnune \ 
Note : Cocculus Cebatha is a very variable plant and it has puzzled 
many a botanist who collected at Aden. 
Defiers mentions in one of his lists a Cocculus sp. giving the 
following description : " On the 30th April this liana showed neither 
flowers nor fruits. J udging from its habit it may be considered as a 
