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FLORA OF ADEN. 
7. Cleorne polytriclia Franch. in Morot Journ. de Bot. I, 41; 
Schweinf. Ball. Herb. Boiss. (1896), Append. II, 189. 
Cleome hispida Defl. Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. XXXII, 346 et XXXIY, 
64 (non Ehrbg. in Herb. Mus. Paris.). 
Description : — A robust undershrub, 1 1 feet high, densely covered with 
pilose-setulose glandular hairs; stems erect, spreading ramose from the 
base. Leaves 6 — 10 lines long and broad, long petiolate, orbiculate- 
cordate (broadly ovate and subcordate at the base in Defiers' specimen), 
3-nerved or obscurely 5-nerved ; bracts only slightly smaller than the j 
cauline leaves, reflexed, orbiculate, deeply and narrowly cordate, 
sub sessile. 
Flowers in terminal loose and very leafy racemes. Pedicels patulate,. I 
lJ-2-times as long as the bracts. Sepals lanceolate, puberulous, long 
glandular. Petals slightly longer than the calyx, broadly lanceolate, 
pilose at the apex ; (* squama margine undulato-crispa, nunc 
triloba' according to Franshet). Stamens 4, exserted. Style 2-2| lines 
long (7-8 mm. according to Franchet) ; projecting beyond the stamens; 
stigma ovate. 
Capsule 10-12 lines long, 2^-3 lines broad, oblong-lanceolate (ovate , 
in Defiers' specimen), non stipitate, ascendent on the patent peduncle,, 
cohered with spreading pilose hairs which bear a black gland at the 
apex. Style persistent, deflexed. Seeds small, glabrous, reniform, 
yellow. 
This species is very easily distinguished amongst the long-styled 
Cleomes by the reflexed and almost sessile bracts which leave at their 
base a deep narrow opening for the peduncle. 
Fruits: — Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), August (Herb. Kew). 
Locality: — Ravine above the European cemetery of Steamer Point, 
plain of Maala, Goldmore Valley (Schweinf.) ; plain of Maala, Goldmore 
Valley, between boulders (Defl.) ; without locality (Birdw., Courbon, 
Beaudoin). 
Distribution : — Saihut on the Mahra Coast, Tadjura on calcareous 
ground (Boivin). 
8. Cleome droserifolia Del. FI. d'Eg. p. 250 ; DC. Prodr. I, 
239; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 415 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 77. 
Cleome roridula R. Br. in Salt Voy. Abyss. I, 77. 
Description : — A much-branched and shrubby glandular-hispid herb 
of 3-10 inches. Leaves broadly cvate-rotundate, obtuse, with a more 
or less truncate triplinerved base, setose, hispid or scabrous, | — 4 inch in 
diameter, equalling or usually shorter than their petioles. 
