FLORA OF ADEN . 
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Fruit capsular, 4-5-gonous or 4-5 -winged, indekiscent, or septi- 
cidally dehiscent into 5 cocci, or loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds 1 or more 
in each cell, pendulous ; testa crustaceous ; albumen scanty; cotyledons 
oblong. 
Species about 54. 
Distribution : — Chiefly Australia, extra-tropical Africa, deserts of 
W. Asia. 
1 . Zygophyllum simplex L. Mant. p. 64; DC. Prodr. I, 705 \ 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 13 ; Boiss. Fl # Or. I, 912; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. I, 424 ; Oliv. FI. fcrop. Afr. I, 286. 
Zygophyllum portulacoides Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 88. 
Description : — A much-branched, succulent, watery, procumbent 
herb ; branches slender, reddish, striate. Leaves small, subsessile,. 
cylindric, oblong, or obovate, obtuse, fleshy ; stipules lanceolate, acute. 
Sepals obovate, cucullate at the apex. Petals yellow, spathulate, 
spreading, margins flat. Ovary turbinate, glabrous, ribbed ; style 
tapering. 
Capsules deflexed, rugulose, separating into 5 compressed 3-5-seeded 
cocci. Seeds minute, oblong, attenuated at both ends. 
Fruits: — Februarv 1851 (Thomson), March 1878 (Perry), April 
1861 (Thomson). 
Locality : — Plain of Maala, hill near Steamer Point (Deft); near the 
coal depot of the Messag. Marit. on basaltic rubbish (Schweinf.) ; on the 
slope of the Shum Shum Range (Elenbeck, Busse, Marchesetti ); great 
valley between Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; without locality 
(Edgew., Thomson, Hook., Madden, Anders., Birdw., Perry, Kuntze). 
Very common. 
Distribution : — Cape Yerd Islands, Egypt, Palestine, Nubia,. 
Arabia, highlands of Somaliland, Sind, Cape of Good Hope, S.-W. 
Africa. 
3. Fagonia L. 
Much-branched spinose herbs, woody at the base, erect or prostrate. 
Leaves opposite, 1-3-foliate ; leaflets entire, mucronate ; stipules often 
spiny. Peduncles solitary, 1 -flowered, apparently axillary. 
Flowers rosy or violet, rarely yellow. Sepals 5, deciduous, imbricate. 
Petals 5. Stamens 10; filaments filiform, naked; anthers shortly oblong. 
Ovary sessile, 5-gonous, 5-cell ed ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous from, 
cending funicles. Stigma simple. 
