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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Locality : — Sandy places near the sea-shore (Madden) ; without loca- 
lity (Birdw., Balf.). 
Distribution: — S. Arabia, S. Persia, Afghanistan, Sind. 
2, Cleome papillosa Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, I, 382 ; Anders. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 3 ; Boiss. PI. Or. I, 413 ; Hook. FJ. Brit. Ind. I, 
168 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 76 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Presid. I, 36. 
Cleome gracilis Edgew. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XYI, 1212. 
Cleome scaposa DC. Prodr. I, 239. 
Cleome Ehrenbergiana Schweinf. FI. Aethiop. p. 68. 
Cleome radula Fenzl. in Flora 1844, p. 312. 
Cleome cordata Ehrenbg. ined. in herb. arab. 
Cylindrocarpus cordata Kl. ined. ibidem. 
Description : — A low scabrous or hispid herb, 4 — 12 inches high, 
usually with several erect or ascending slender stems more or less leafy 
below. Radical leaves ovate to orbicular, shortly hispid-scabrous, entire, 
J — 1 inch in diameter, petiolate ; cauline leaves often cordate at the base, 
shortly petiolate or sessile. 
Flowers small, pink, in long slender, bracteate, racemes ; pedicels 
filiform; bracts small. Sepals linear-lanceolate, glandular. Petals clawed. 
Stamens 6. 
Capsules glabrous or slightly papillose, striate, very slender, f — 11- 
inches by g 1 ^ inch. Gynophore almost 0. Seeds minute, brown-black, 
glabrous, granulate. 
Flowers: — March 1878 (Perry). 
Fruits .-—December (Herb. Kew). 
Locality : — Near the Telegraph Office, valley near Steamer Point. 
(Schweinf.) ; Goldmore Yalley (Defl.) ; without locality (Edgew., 
Anders., Birdw., Marchesetti, Wichura, Hildebrandt, Perry) . 
Distribution: — Kordofan, Nubia, Abyssinia, Somaliland, Eritrea, 
extending through Arabia to N. W. India, Sind, Socotra. 
3, Cleome bracliycarpa (Forsk.) Yahl in DC. Prodr. I, 240 ; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 4 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 412 ; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. I, 169 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 77 ; Franch. Sert. Somal. 
in Miss. Revoil p. 11 ; Terrac. in Arm. Inst. Bot. Rom. V, 113. 
Cleome ornithopodioides Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. Cat. n. 402. 
Cleome Yahliana Fresen. Mus. Senckenb. II, 110 ; Ait. Cat. Pb. and 
Sind PL p. 9. 
Cleome ruta Cambess. in Jacq. Yoy. Bot. p. 19, t. 19 ; Ait. Cat. Pb. 
and Sind PL, p. 9. 
