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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Flowers on terminal racemes, pedicellate, rather large, 
citron-yellow or rose, closely corymbose at first. Bracts linear or 
obsolete. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, often glandular. Petals 
unequal. Stamens 6, 2 usually much longer ; anthers purple (Schweinf .) . 
Fruits widely spreading or pendulous, linear, tapering to each end, 
about 4 inches long, 2 — 3 lines broad. Gynophore ^ — § inch long. 
Style persistent, short, tapering, many times shorter than the glabrous 
striate valves. Seeds biseriate, subglobose, shortly pilose. Cotyledons 
circinate. 
Flowers in October (Marchesetti) . 
Fruits from November to March (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Near the coal depot of the Messag. Marit., on rubbish 
and loose rocky ground in great quantities (Schweinf.) ; ravine south- 
west of the tower of silence in the crater of the Shum Shum Range, 
plain of Maala (Dell.) ; on the slope of the Shum Shum on coarse ‘ ( ; 
gravel (Ellenbeck, Lunt) ; without locality (Edgew., Hook,, Madden, 
Anders., Birdw., Hildebrandt, Marchesetti, Kuntze). 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Nubia, Abyssinia, Kordofan. 
5. Cleoine pruinosa Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc., Y, Suppl. p. 3; 
Defl. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XXXII, 346 ; Schweinf. Herb. Boiss. 
(1896) Append. II, 189 ; Franchet Journ. de Bot. I (1887) 40. 
Description: — A small undershrub, stem much-branched, subglabrous; 
branches pruinose, with patent subhirsute pilose hairs, leafy. Leaves 
long-petioled, 4 — 8 lines long, 3—6 lines broad, ovate, acuminate, 3- 
nerved, sparingly scabrous-papillose, margin glandular, subserrate ; petiole 
£ inch long. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, usually greenish-yellow ; sepals lanceolate, 
sub glandular ; petals linear, unguiculate, the posterior ones sometimes 
with red nerves, in other cases quite yellow. Stamens 4 ; filaments 
purpurascent ; anthers greenish-yellow with blackish margin. Style 
slender, glabrous, 4 lines long. Siliqua sessile, erect, glandular, terete, 
oblong, longitudinally sulcate, 8 lines long, apiculate with the persistent 
deflexed style. 
Flowers : — Dec. 1847 (Hooker), Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), January 
1863 (Oliver & Cl.). 
Fruits-. — Nov. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hooker), April 1861 
(Thomson), June 1872 (Hildebr.), June 1878 (Perry). 
Locality: — Near the Mosque Shaik Aidrus, plain of Maala, valley 
above the European cemetery of Steamer Point, dry, rocky and stony 
