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FLORA OF ADEN. 
2. Corchorus Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, more or less covered with stellate tomentum. 
Leaves serrate. 
Flowers small, yellow ; peduncles very short, axillary or leaf-opposed, 
1- or few-flowered, bracteate. Sepals 4- — 5. Corolla of 4 — 5 glandless 
petals. Stamens indefinite or rarely twice as many as the sepals, inserted 
on a short torus. Ovary 2 — 5-celled ; ovules many in each cell ; style 
short, the apex stigmatose, hollow, crenulate. 
Capsule elongated, slender or sub globose, smooth or prickly, loculici- 
dally 2 — 5-valved, internally sometimes transversely septate. Seeds 
numerous, pendulous or horizontal, albuminous. Embryo generally 
curved ; cotyledons foliaceous. 
Species .‘—About 35. 
Distribution : — There are two important cultivated forms of wide 
distribution. The wild forms are spread over the tropics of Asia, Africa 
and America. 
Capsule short ...... 
. 1. C. antichorus. 
Capsule elongate- - 
Capsule scabrous or aculeate, 3-angled, 
beak short, erect .... 
. 2, C. trilocularis. 
Capsule glabrous, cylindric, 10-ribbed, 
beak long, erect .... 
. 3. C. olitorius. 
1. Corchorus antichorus (L.) Rseuschel Norn. Bot. ed 3. p. 158; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 10 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 846; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. I, 398 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 263. 
Antichorus depressus L. Mant. p. 61 ; DC. Prodr. I, 504. 
Corchorus microphyllus Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. II, 156. 
Corchorus humilis Munro Horfc. Agrensis, Append, p. 35. 
Jussisea edulis Forsk. FI. Aeg-Arab. p. 210. 
Arabic name : — Ueki. 
Description : — A woody perennial, 6 — 9 inches high, prostrate, much- 
branched from the base ; branches twisted, imbricate, woody. Leaves 
i — I by ^ J inch, roundish, usually wrinkled, glabrous, irregularly 
crenate-serrate, base rounded or cuneate; petioles J — 1 inch long; 
stipules subulate. 
Flowers numerous, on leaf-opposed cymes ; buds obovoid, apiculate ; 
bracts lanceolate-subulate ; peduncles and pedicels very short. Sepals 
linear-oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong, obovate. 
Capsule | — f inch long, cylindric, beaked, glabrous or hispidulous, 
often curved upwards, 4-valved. Seeds trigonous, black. 
Fruits October (Marchesetti), January 1880 (Balfour). 
