FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Locality : — Plain of Maala (Defl.); Goldmore Valley (Sohweinf.) ; 
slope of the Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; great valley between 
Steamer Point and towD (Marchesetti) ; without locality (Hook.,, 
Madden, Anders., Birdw., Hildebrandt). 
Distribution Cape Verd Islands, N. Africa, S. Arabia, Mascat, 
Afghanistan, Sind, Deccan. 
2. Corchorus trilocularis L. Mant. p. 77; DC. Prodr. I, 504 > 
Harv.-Sond. FL Cap. I, 229 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 262 ; FI. Br. Ind* 
I, 397 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 845 ; Cooke FL Bomb. Presid. I, 149. 
Arabic name : — Melochia. 
Description : — Annual ; stems and branches more or less hairy* 
Leaves 1 — 4 by f— 1J inches, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 
serrate (the lower serratures often destitute of filiform appendages), 
somewhat rough below, base rounded or cuneate ; petioles ^ inch long, 
pilose ; stipules lanceolate-subulate. 
Flowers in short cymes; buds ovoid or obovoid apiculate; bracts 
lanceolate -subulate ; peduncles very short, leaf-opposed, hairy ; pedicels 
very short, pubescent. Sepals \ inch long, linear-oblong, acuminate. 
Petals oblong, slightly longer than the sepals. 
Capsules 2 — 3 inches long, with a short erect beak, hairy when young 
with stiff stellate hairs, scabrous when old, 3 — 4-angled, 3 — 4-valved ; 
valves with transverse partitions between the seeds. Seeds trigonous, 
black. 
Locality : — Crater of Shum Shum Range, Koosaf Valley (Dell.). 
Distribution : — Tropical and S. Africa, S. Arabia, Afghanistan, Sind, 
3. Corchorus olitorius Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 529; Forsk. FI. 
Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 101 ; Lamk. Encycl. Bot. (1786) II, 103, t.478, 
f. 1 ; Bot. Mag. (1828) IV, pi. 2810 (fruit a little too pointed) i 
DC. Prodi. I 7 511 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 262 ; Hook FI. Brit. Ind. I, 
347 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 845 ; Trim. FL Ceyl. I, 182 ; K. Schum. in EngL 
S: Prantl Pflanzenf. Ill, part 6, p. 19 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. Pres. I. 149 ; 
Corchorus decemangularis Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 582. 
Of ante-Linnean writers we may mention : Camerarius, Hort. Med. 
(1588) p. 47, f. 12; Prosper Alpinus, De Pl. Aegypti (1592) p. 39 
et t.; Parkinson Theatr. Bot. (1640) p. 309 et fig.; Plukenet, Aim. 
Bot. (1696), p. 17 ; Phyt., t. 127, f. 3 and 4. 
Richter, Codex Bot. Linn. (1840) p. 525 shows that Linn, first 
included Plukenet t. 127, fig. 3 under this species and subsequently placed 
it under Corchorus cestuans (Sp. Pl. 1762, p. 746); but Linn, cites in 
addition Browne, Triumfetta , in Nat. Hist. Jam. 332, t. 25, fig. 1 ; this 
plate, however, in Watt's opinion, is rather Corchorus acntangulus . 
