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FLORA OF ADEN . 
long as the deflexed pedicel, apiculate with the short style ; carpels 5, 
carinate. 
Flowers mad. fruits in November and December (Schweinf.). 
Locality — Ravine north of the telegraph office of Steamer Point, 
above the coal depot of the Messag. Marit. (Schweinf.); plain of 
Maala, Groldmore Valley, ravine south-west of the Tower of Silence 
(Defl.) ; on the way to the Shum Shum Range at a height of about 
650 feet, below the top of the Shum Shum (Busse). 
Distribution of the type : Nubia, Upper Egypt, Abyssinia, S. 
Arabia, S. Persia. 
Note : — Schweinfurth found the same variety on the island of Maeour 
on the Nubian coast (*21° N. L), where the plant occurs on coral debris 
under similar conditions (Krause). 
3. Fagonia glabra Krause in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXXV, Heft 5, 
p. 42. 
Description : — A perennial much branched-herb ; branches and leaves 
quite glabrous ; younger branches striate ; leaves with a very short 
petiole, simple, obovate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, thick coriaceous, 
| 1 inch long, ^ — f inch broad; stipules spinose, thin, slightly 
unequal, often longer than the leaves. 
Flowers short-pedicellate, axillary, solitary. Sepals J inch long, 
narrow obovate, acuminate, shortly ciliate. Petals J inch long, white, 
obovate, twice as long as the calyx. 
Fruit pubescent. 
Locality : — On rocks of the Shum Shum Range at a height of about 
1 ; 000 feet, and near the top at about 1,700 feet (W. Busse, n. 2062). 
Endemic in Aden, 
Note : — F. glabra Krause approaches nearest to F. socotrana (Balf.) 
Engl, from which, however, it is sufficiently distinguished by the 
spinose stipules. It differs from F. Luntii Bak. and F. nummulari folia 
Bak. (both from Radramaut) by the leaves being entirely glabrous and 
by the colour of the flowers. (Krause.) We have not seen this plant. 
XII.— GERANIACEE. 
Herbs, undershrubs., rarely trees, often glandularly pubescent, 
Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely entire, often 2— stipulate. 
Flowers hermaphrodite* regular or irregular, solitary, umbelled, 
cymose or racemose ; peduncles usually axillary. Sepals 5, rarely fewer, 
free or united to the middle, usually imbricate, the posticous sometimes 
spurred, persistent or rarely deciduous. Petals as many as the sepals, 
fewer by suppression or 0, hypogynous or sub-perigynous, variously 
