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FLORA OF ADEN . 
Stroemia longifolia R. Br. in Salt Abyss, n. 64. 
Cadaba scandens Pax in Engl. Bot. Jabrb. XIV, 301. 
Description : — A glabrous shrub or the extremities slightly mealy. 
Leaves coriaceous, linear-oblong or lanceolate or elongate-oval, obtuse 
or subacute, often with a fine mucro, usually from 1-1 \ inches long and 
5-6 lines broad ; petiole 2-3 lines long. 
Flowers in short terminal corymbs ; bracts reduced to minute scales. 
Sepals brick-red on the inner side. Petals citron-yellow, narrow-oval or 
lanceolate, with long claws, rather exceeding the sepals. Appendix 
linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, about as ’long as the sepals, open on the 
side towards the gynophore. Stamens 4 ; filaments adnate halfway 
up the gynophore or higher. Ovary minutely glandular, bilocular, at 
least partially. 
Flowers :—■ November 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1889 (Defl.),Febr. 1851 
(Hooker), April 1861 (Thomson), June 1878 (Perry). 
Locality: — Goldmore Valley (Schweinf., Defl ) ; plain of Maala 
(Schweinf.) ; slopes of Shum Shum Range (Marchesetti, Ellenbeck) ; 
without locality (Hook., Thomson, Anders., Birdw., Lunt, Perry, 
Kuntze) . 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Somaliland, Socotra, Eritrea, Sennaar, 
Abyssinia. 
Note: Like several other species of Caspar idacece v.g. Maerua 
oblongi folia Rich , etc., this plant produces on certain long shoots quite 
narrow leaves with the nervation very indistinctly visible on their upper 
side. Schweinfurth observed the following forms of leaves on specimens 
collected in the Goldmore V alley : Oblong-elliptic, pointed at both ends 
(l-|x 4 inch), linear or linear-lanceolate with slightly obtuse apex (2|-x 
1 inch), lanceolate (2i x 4 inch). 
4. Cadaba farinosa Forsk. FI, Aeg.-Arab. p. 68 ; DC. Prodr. I, 244; 
Boiss. FI. Or I, 4 18 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 89. 
Stroemia farinosa Vahl Symb. I, 20. 
Streblocarpus Fenzlii Pari, in Webb. Fragm. FI. Aethiop. p. 24. 
Arabic name : Assal, el-bejadd, gorrah, gorreh, sserah. 
Description : — A shrub or occasionally arborescent, often densely 
branched, the extremities terete, and more or less hoary-mealy. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong, oval-oblong or varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse, emarginate or rarely somewhat mucronulate and acute, 
pale glaucous-green or whitish and mealy at first, at length glabrate, \- 
2 inches long, -j-1 inch broad, often very small and fascicled ; petiole 
about 1 line, rarely 3-4 lines. 
