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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Fruit pale brown, constricted between the seeds, forming an elongate 
twisted and knotted berry, each lobe or knot 1 seeded. Seeds brown, 
globose, echinate. 
Locality : Aden (Birdw.). 
Distribution : W. India. 
4. Cadaba For sic, 
Shrubs^ unarmed or the desert species sometimes spinescent. Leaves 
simple, entire, glandular scabrid or glabrous. 
Flowers in terminal corymbs or racemes or axillary. Sepals 4, free, 
biseriate. Petals 4 or 0, inserted on the torus, unguiculate. Stamens 
4 or 5 ; filaments more or less adnate to the gynophore. Appendix 
springing from the base of the gynophore, tubular linguiform or 
ligulate. Ovary on a long gynophore, 1-2-celled. Stigma sessile or 
subsessile. Ovules indefinite. 
Fruit cylindrical, terete or subtorulose or ellipsoidal. Seeds sub- 
globose ; testa cartilaginous ; cotyledons convolute. 
Species about 20. 
Distribution /“-Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Islands of the 
Indian Ocean, Australia. 
Petals 0. Stamens 5, adnate to base of gynophore — 
( a ) Glabrous . . . . . « 1. C. rotundifolia. 
(5) Glandular-pilose or hispid . . , 2. C. glandulosa. 
Petals present. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate length of gynophore— 
(a) Glabrous or extremities minutely mealy ; 
Stamens 4 . . . . . 3. C. longifolia. 
(6) Mealy-puberulous at first ; stamens 4-5 . 4. C. farinosa. 
1. Cadaba rotundifolia Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 68 ; DC. Prodr. I, 
244; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 418; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. p, 66; Oliv. 
FI. trop. Apr. I, 89. 
Stroemia rotundifolia Vahl Symb. I, 19. 
Arabic name : — Qadsab, qattab. 
Description : — Extremities minutely puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, 
orbicular or rotundate, glabrous, with one or two pairs of the principal 
lateral veins from near the base, 1-1 \ inches in diameter ; petioles about 
J-f men long. 
Flowers in terminal racemes. Bracts subulate or obsolete. Petals 0. 
Appendix about f inch long, ligulate, lamina elliptical, obtuse, folded 
back over its claw in the bud. Stamens 5 ; filaments adnate 1-2 lines 
