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FLORA OF ADEN . 
and rafters, for the knees of boots, etc, It is valuable because it is not 
attacked by white ants. 
IV, — RESE DACE/E. 
Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, scattered 
or fasciculate, entire, 3-fid or pinnatifid ; stipules minute. 
Flowers racemose or spicate, bracteate. Calyx persistent, 4 — 7 -partite, 
irregular ; lobes imbricate in bud. Petals 2 — 7, hypogynous, entire or 
lobed, equal, or the upper larger. Disk conspicuous, sessile or shortly 
stipitate, often unilateral or absent. Stamens usually many, inserted 
upon the disk, free or connate, equal or unequal. Ovary 1 -celled, of 
2 — 6 connate carpels, closed or open at the apex or narrowed into short 
cuspidate styles; ovules on 2 — 6 parietal placentas, amphitropous or 
campylotropous. 
Fruit a closed or open capsule, or indehiscent, (baccate in Ochradenus), 
or of as many minute follicles as carpels. Seeds many, reniform ; albu- 
men 0 ; embryo curved or folded ; cotyledons incumbent. 
Genera 6. 
Species about 35. 
Distribution. : — S. Europe, N. and S. Africa, Asia Minor, Sind, 
With petals . , . . . . . . .1. Reseda. 
Without petals . . > . . , . 2. Ochradenus. 
1. Reseda L. 
Erect or decumbent glabrous or pilose herbs. Leaves entire, lobed or 
pinnatifid. 
Flowers in terminal, bracteate racemes. Calyx 4 — 7-partite. Petals 
4 — 7 ; unequal, multifid, the upper with a membranous appendage above 
the claw. Disk subsessile, broad, dilated on the upper side. Stamens 
10 — 40, inserted within the disk. Ovary sessile or stalked, 3-lobed at the 
apex ; placentas 3 — 6 ; ovules many. 
Capsule indehiscent, open at the top. Seeds indefinite. 
Species 26. 
Distribution : — The countries bordering the Mediterranean and 
W estern Asia. 
1. Reseda amblyocarpa Fresen. Mus. Senckenb. 1, 108 ; Walp. Repert. 
Bot. II, 753; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. I, 13 ;Muell.-Arg. Monogr. 
Resed. p. 151 et in DC. Prodr. XVI, 530 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, 
Suppl. p. 6. 
