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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Fruit 5-gonous, of 5 one-seeded cocci which separate from a horny 
endocarp. Seeds erect, oompressd, broadly oblong; testa mucilaginous ; 
albumen horny; cotyledons broad, flat, ovate. 
Species about 7. 
Distribution : — Widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean 
and the Eastern regions, rarer in S. Africa, California, Chili. 
Flowers pale rose-coloured — 
Leaves 1-3-foliate j fruit deeply 5-partite . . . 1. F. cretica. 
Leaves 1-foliate ; fruit not deeply 5-partite . . * 2. F. parviflora. 
Flowers white 3. F. glabra. 
1. Fagonia cretica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 386 ; DC. Prodr. I, 704; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 11 : Boiss. FI. Or. I, 905 ;01iv. 
FI. trop. Afr. I, 287. 
Fagonia Hispanica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 386. 
F. arabica Linn. 1. c. 
F. glutinosa Delil. FI. Aeg. 86, t. 28. 
F. mollis Delil. 1. c. 76, t. 27, f. 2. 
F. latifolia Delil. 1. c. 86, t. 28, f. 3. 
F(, cistoides Delil. in Herb. Bove, n. 169. 
F. Mysorensis Roth N. Sp, 215. 
F. Oliveri DC. Prodr. I, 704. 
F. Persica DC. 1. c. 
F. Bruguieri DC. 1. c. 
F. acerosa Boiss. Diag. PI. Or. VIII, 124. 
F. Aucheri Boiss. 1. c. I, 62. 
F. echinella Boiss. 1. c. VIII, 123. 
F. grand iflora Boiss. 1. c. 121. 
F. Kahirana Boiss. 1. c. 122. 
F. myricantha Boiss. 1. c. 123. 
F. Sinaica Boiss. 1. c. 61. 
F. subinermis 1. c. 62, 
F. Thebaica Boiss. 1. c. 12 i. 
F. Californica Benth. Bot. Sulph, Yoy. 10. 
F. Chilensis Hook, et Arn. in Bot. Misc. Ill, 165. 
F. virens Coss in Kralik. PI. Alger. 
F. fruticans Coss. 1. c. 
F. diversifolia Boiss. in PI. Or. nov. ser. II, 113. 
Arabic name .— Shoeka, shuki. 
Description : — An erect or ascending, diffuse or densely-branched 
spinose annual, from a few inches to a foot or more in height, glan- 
dular puberulous, scabrid or glabrescent. Leaves opposite, 1-3-foliate ; 
