FLORA OF ADEN. 
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1 , Ocliradeiius baccatus Delile Fl.d'Egyp. (1812) p. 236, t. 31 $ 
Oliver FI. trop. Afr. 1, 104 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 1, 182. Cooke FI. Bomb. 
Presid. I, 50. 
Description : — Shrubby ; branches terete, divaricate, striate, glabrous. 
Leaves \ — 1J by -^inch, entire, scattered near the base of the branches, 
olive-green, fleshy, narrow-linear, spathulate, with a callous tip, glab- 
rous. 
Flowers yellowish, minute, shortly pedicelled, laxly arranged in rigid 
racemes, 1— 2-sexual. Calyx 5 — 6-lobed. Petals 0. Stamens 10 — 12. 
Berry small, J-inch in diameter, shortly stalked, obovoid, attenuated 
at the base, the apex rounded and obtusely 3-denticulate. Seeds few, 
pale brown. 
Locality : — Aden (Hildebrandt) . 
Distribution : — Syria, Egypt, Sind. 
V.—POLYG ALICE M. 
Herbs, shrubs or rarely arborescent, diffuse, erect or scandent. Leaves 
usually alternate, simple, entire, exstipulate. 
Flowers racemose, capitate or panicled, bracteate. Sepals 5, free or 2 
anterior connate, two inner larger, petaloid, wing-like, rarely subequal. 
Petals 3 or 5, declinate, free from each other, but usually united at the 
base with the staminal sheath, the lower one keeled and generally crested. 
Stamens 8, 5 or 6, monadelphous ; anthers 1— 2-celled, opening by a 
transverse valve or terminal pore. Ovary 2-celled or 1 -celled by abortion 
or 3-celled ; one ovule in each cell, pendulous. 
Fruit generally a capsule, 2-celled, 2-seeded, loculicidal or indehis- 
cent. Seeds often pilose or glabrous, almost always strophiolate and 
albuminous ; embryo axile with flattened cotyledons and a short superior 
radicle. 
Genera 15 ; species about 500. 
Distribution : Throughout the warm regions of the world, except 
New Zealand. 
1. Polygala L, 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or fascicled, rarely opposite or 
vertieillate. 
Flowers in terminal or lateral, axillary or extra-axillary racemes 
or heads, usually rather small. Sepals unequal, often persistent,, 
the 2 inner larger, usually petaloid. Petals 3, united at the base with 
the staminal sheath, the lower one keeled and generally crested* 
Stamens 8 ; filaments united in Itheir lower half into a split sheath ; 
D 2 
