FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Seeds ascending or horizontal ; albumen copious,, fleshy or rarely scanty, 
or almost 0 ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous or fleshy. 
( Species: — Over 100. 
Distribution : — Tropical and sub -tropical, from Africa to Queensland« 
1. Grewia populifolia (Fors.) Yabl Symb. I, 33 ; DC. Prodr. I, 511 ; 
Anders. Journ Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 10; Boiss. Fh Or. I, 843 ; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. I, 385 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 246. 
Chadara tenax Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. CXIV. 
Grewia betulsefolia Juss. in Ann. Mus. IV, 92, pl. 4, f. 1. 
Grewia reticulata Hochst. PI. Schimp. Abyss. 
Grewia ribesisefolia Hochst. PI. Schimp. Abyss. 
Grewia crenata Hochst 1. c. 
Grewia membranacea Rich. FI. Abyss, I, 90. 
Description — A shrub or undershrub, 2 — 6 feet high, with stiff 
divaricate branches ; bark white ; wood yellowish-white, tough. 
Branchlets and leaves slightly rough with short stellate hairs. Leaves 
up to li by lj inches, broadly ovate or suborbicular, sometimes obovate, 
acute or obtuse, coarsely dentate, glabrous or nearly so, base rounded 
or cuneate ; petioles | inch long, slender ; stipules small, linear, 
caducous. 
Flowers white, | — 1 inch across; peduncles usually solitary, leaf- 
opposed, thickened near the top, bearing usually 1 flower ; bracts 2, near 
the middle of the pedicel, caducous, leaving a mark which has the 
appearance of a joint. Sepals f inch, linear-oblong, tomentose outside, 
blade attached to back of claw. Petals linear-oblong, usually notched. 
Torus with 5 densely villous teeth at the top beneath the ovary. 
Ovary 4-lobed, glabrous as a rule ; style longer than the stamens ; 
stigma 4 — 5-lobed. 
Drupes smooth, oran ge-y ellow, about inch broad, usually of 2 
separable halves, each half didymous ; stones 1 — 4, muricate, 1 — 2- 
celled. 
Fruits : June 1878 (Perry), Aug. 1880 (Hunter). 
Locality : — Above the European cemetery of Steamer Point 
(Schweinf.) ; ravine west of the Tower of Silence, crater of the Shorn 
Shum Range (Defl.) ; without locality (Hcok., Birdw., Perry) , 
neighbourhood of Aden (Hunter). 
Distribution .‘—Tropical Africa, Senegambia, Mauritius, Egypt, 
Arabia, Persia, Sind, W. India, Ceylon. 
