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Cleome diversifolia Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. FI. Arab. Fel. n. 762* 
Cleome parviflora R. Br. in Salt-Yoy. Abyss, p. 65. 
Arabic name : Chosam. 
Description : — A low diffuse perennial herb, 6-18 inches high, more 
or less glandular-pubescent or scabrid-setulose, sometimes glabrescent, 
with an odour of rue. Leaves 3-5-1-foliate, petiolate or the upper 
sessile ; leaflets oblanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse and mucronate, 
viscidly puberulous. 
Flowers yellow, in the axils of leafy bracts, in lax 
racemes ; pedicels § — ^ inch long, filiform ; bracts 3-foliate or simple, 
subsessile. Sepals inch long, ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than the 
petals, glandular pubescent outside. Petals | inch long, ovate- 
oblong, subacute, glabrous, furnished inside with a small scale-like 
appendage above the short claw. Stamens 6, of which one is sometimes 
imperfect. Ovary minutely glandular or glabrous, sessile. Style 
slender. 
Capsule § — £ by to“'b inch, oblong, inflated, glandular. No 
gynophore. Seeds minute, nearly smooth. 
Mowers and fruits in January in Yemen (Schweinf.). 
Locality .‘ — On the slope of the Shum Shum Range (Edgew., Madden, 
Hook., Anders., Zenker, Hildebrandt, Balf., Marchesetti, Ellenbeck, 
Busse) ; near Maala (Schweinf.) ; without locality (Birdw., Kuntze). 
Distribution : — Kordofan, Abyssinia, Nubia, Somaliland, Socotra, 
Central and S. Arabia, Punjab. 
Uses : — The strongly aromatic leaves of this plant are often sold in 
the market of Aden. They are put between clothes in order to protect 
them against insects (Krause). 
4, Cleome paratioxa R. Br. in Salt Yoy. Abyss. App. p. 65; DC. 
Prodr. I, 241 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 2 ; Oliv. FI. trop. 
Afr. I, 78. 
Cleome venusta Fenzl. iu Flora (1844) p. 312. 
Cleome muricata Edgew. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XYI, 1212. 
Dianthera grandiflora Kl. in Peter’s Reise nach Mozamb., Bot. I, 
161. 
Cleome grandiflora Ehrbg, ined. in herb, arab.et abyss. 
Description : — An erect, somewhat shrubby plant of 2-3 feet ; the 
branches simple or forking, leafy, glabrous or with dark sessile glands 
above. Leaves 3 — 6-foliate ; leaflets linear or linear lanceolate, 
glabrous, glaucescent. 
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