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with the gynophore, which is at length J-f inch long. Ovary 1-celled ; 
placentas 2. 
Fruit linear, dehiscing in 2 valves, about 1J inch long. Seeds reni- 
form. 
Flowers and fruits in November (Schweinf.). 
Locality — Goldmore Valley (Schweinf.) ; without locality (Birdw., 
Balfour). Hinterland: In the plain between Shaikh Othman and Bir 
Ahmed (Defl.). 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Socotra, Eritrea, Nubia, Abyssinia, 
Somaliland, Kordofan. 
3. Cadaba glandulosa Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 68 ; DC. Prodr. I, 
244 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 4 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 418 ; 
Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 89. 
Stroemia glandulosa Vahl Symb. I, 20. 
Cadaba monopetala Edgew. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI, 1212. 
Arabic name : — Teneim. 
Description: — A much branched shrub, glandular-pilose with short, 
spreading, viscid hairs. Leaves orbicular, obovate or broadly elliptical, 
with or without a mucro, more or less shortly glandular-hispid or 
sometimes scabrid, usually 3-6 lines in diameter, rarely twice as large. 
Racemes few-flowered, terminating the branches and lateral shoots. 
Petals 0. Appendix f-1 inch long, ligulate, the lamina petaloid, oblong, 
obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 5, shortly adnate to the base of the 
gynophore. Ovary 2-celled, owing to the cohesion of the placentary 
plates. 
Fruit oblong-ellipsoidal, | inch long on a gynophore of J-f inch. 
Flowers: — February 1851 (Thomson), Oct. (Defl.), Nov. 1888 
(Schweinf.) . 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley (Schweinf.) ; on the slopes of Shum 
Shum Range (Edgew., Hook., Hildebrandt, Marchesetti, Ellenbeck) ; 
plain of Maala at the foot of the Shum Shum (Defl.) ; gravelly slope 
quite close to the town (Busse) ; without locality (Birdw., Kuntze) - y 
common (Krause). 
Distribution : — Central and Southern Arabia, highlands of Somaliland, 
Abyssinia, Nubia, Kordofan. 
3. Cadaba longifolia DC. Prodr. I, 244 ; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. 
I, 26, tab. 5 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl., p. 4; Schweinf. 
Beitr. FI. Aethiop. p, 66 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 90. 
