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FLORA OF ADEN . 
2i Polycarprea Spicata Wight, ex Arnott in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ill, 
99 ; Webb. FI. Aeth.-Aeg. p. 40 ; Boiss. FI. Or., I, 738 ; Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. I, 246. 
Polycarpsea staticseformis Hochst. et Steud. ex Fenzl in Endl. Gen.. 
PL p. 161. 
Description : A small slender glabrous herb, 2-4 inches high, with 
straight spreading branches from the rosulate radical leaves. Leaves 
oblanceolat e-spat hulate, acute or obtuse. Stipules lanceolate, very acute; 
prolonged to a fine point. 
Flowers in fascicled spikes at the apex of the peduncles; bracts 
scarious. Sepals scarious, lanceolate, acute, with a coloured, broad, 
herbaceous midrib. Petals very small, oblong. 
Capsule about i as long as the sepals. 
Fruits : January 1880 (Balfour). 
Locality : Crater of the Shum Shum at the height of 1500 feet near 
the flagstaff (Defl.) ; on the Shum Shum Range (Busse) ; without 
locality (Birdw., Beevor, Balfour). 
Distribution : Gujarat, Sind, Central and Southern Arabia, Socotra,. 
Abyssinia, Nubia, Upper Egypt. 
3. Polycarprea fragilis Del. FI. d'Eg. p. 24, tab. 24, fig. 1 ; Dene. 
Ann. Sc. Nat. (1835) p. 262, DC. Prodr. Ill, 374, Batt. et Trab. FI. 
d'Alg. II, 164; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 737 ; Oliver FI. trop. Afr. I, 146. 
Description : — Hoary-puberulous or tomentose herb of £ — 1 foot with 
numerous spreading branches usually from a woody nodose stock ; lateral 
branches usually short. Leaves linear-lanceolate with revolnte margins, 
conspicuously mucronate, hoary or tomentose. Stipules silvery, membra- 
nous. 
Flowers in small, rather densely fascicled cymes either terminal or 
lateral on the very short lateral branchlets. Sepals ovate-elliptical, 
apieulate, rather thick and herbaceous with a broadly membranous 
margin, exceeding the petals. 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley (Schweinf., Defl.) ; great valley between 
Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; without locality (Beevor). 
Distribution : — Central and S. Arabia, Nubia, Egypt, Tripolis,. 
Algeria. 
2. Sphseroconia T. Anders. 
A small shrub . 1-2 feet high, much-branched, glabrous, glaucous* 
Stem erect, woody. Leaves on the nodes opposite, cauline leaves 
fascicled, fleshy, terete, obtuse at the apex, alternate at the base, 6-10 
lines long. 
