FLORA OF ADEN. 
142 
Hisp. Ill (1880) 538 ; Batt. et Trab. Fl.de 1’ Alg. II (1888) 127; A. 
Gray Syn. FI. N. Am. I, 1. (1897) 362; Halacsy Consp. FI. Graec. I 
(1901) 305 ; Bab. FI. Pyren. Ill (1901) 319; Brumh. Mon. Uebers. 
Erod. (1905) 45 ; Knuth Geraniac. in Engler Regni Veg. Consp. IV, 
129 (1912) p. 245. 
Erodium malacoides var. a Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, il (1789) 415. 
Erodium malacoides var. macropbyllum Lange in Willk. et Lange. 
Prodr. FI. Hisp. Ill (1880) 538. 
Erodium glabellum Del. FI. Aegypt. Ill (1813) 20. 
Erodium althseoides Jord. Pugill. PI. nov. (1852) 41. 
Erodium malvaceum Jord. Pugill. PI. nov. (1852) 41 ; Loret et 
Barrand. FI. Monsp. (1876) 122. 
Erodium glutinosum Dulac FI. Hautes-Pyr. (1867) 238. 
Erodium stipulaceum Du£. ex Nym. Consp. (1878 — 82) 139. 
Erodium floribundum Batt. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XXX (1883) 
265 ; Batt. et Trab. FI. de FAlg. II (1888) 128. 
Geranium malacoides L. Spec. PL ed. 1. II (1753) 680, ed. 2. II 
(1763), 952; Burm. Spec. Geian. (1759) 31 ; Forsk. FI. Aegypt.-Arab. 
(1775) 123; Cav. Diss. IY (1787) 220, tab. 91, f. 1. 
Hcrodium malacoides Reichb. Ic. FI. Germ. Ill (1842 — 43) 65, t. 
185, f. 4868. 
Description : — Annual, softly hairy, hairs on the stem deflexed. Stem 
erect ox diffuse, elongate, branched. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, 
shortly appressed-pubeseent, lower cordate ; stipules large, scarious, acute 
or obtuse. 
Inflorescence glandular; peduncles 3-manv- flowered ; bracts ovate, 
scarious, ciliate. Sepals membranous, two outer 5- and three inner 3- 
nerved, awn hairy. Petals ciliate at the base, obovate, lilac, 9-nerved. 
Filaments glabrous, lanceolate. Staminodes linear. Ovary hairy. 
Carpels stipitate, 3-gonous, setose ; beak 4-5-times as long as the 
cell, with stiff brown hairs for ^ of its lengGh; pits with a deep fold. 
Locality : — Sandy seashore (Madden) . 
Distribution: — All over the Mediterranean Region (Spain, Portugal 
S. France, Italy, Dalmatia, Western Asia, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, 
Morocco), Madeira, Island of Kishm in the southern Persian Gulf. 
Naturalized in the S.-W. Cape Region, South America (Argentine, 
Peru) N. America. 
Note : — No botanist after Madden, who found Dr odium malacoides 
in 1850, has ever seen the plant in Aden. As this species has never been 
reported to occur in Arabia, it is quite probable that at no time was it 
indigenous in Aden. 
