FLORA OF ADEN . 
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Berry scarcely £ inch long, apiculate, red when ripe, 1- (rarely 2-) 
seeded. 
Locality : — Aden (Birdwood, Lunt). 
Distribution. — Senegambia, Nubia, Abyssinia, Angola, Zambesi-land, 
Arabia, throughout India, Ceylon, Java, Malay Archipelago. 
XVII.-MORINGACEJE. 
Soft-wooded deciduous trees. Leaves alternate, impari-bi-or tripin- 
nate, clustered at the end of the branches; pinnae and leaflets opposite; 
leaflets quite entire, obovate, caducous, and as well as the pinnae and 
pinnules, with glands at the base ; no stipules. 
Flowers large, hermaphrodite, irregular, in axillary panicles. Calyx 
5-cleft, with a short, cup-shaped tube and unequal, imbricate, at length 
spreading or reflexed segments. Petals 5, upper smaller. Disk lining 
the calyx-tube. Stamens inserted on the free edge of disk, 5 perfect, 
opposite to petals, alternating with 5, sometimes 7 or 10, filaments with- 
out anthers ; anthers dorsifixed, oblong, 1-celled. Ovary 1 -celled, sti- 
pitate ; style terminal, slender ; ovules indefinite, anatropous, pendulous, 
biseriate, on 3 parietal placentas. 
Capsule beaked, 3—6-angled, 1-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 
numerous ; albumen 0 ; testa corky, winged or not ; embryo straight ; 
cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle very short, superior ; plumule many- 
leaved. 
Genus 1 : species 3. 
Distribution : — W. Asia and N. Africa. 
1. Moringa Lam. 
Character of the order. 
1, Mori n ga aptera (Forsk.) Gaertn. Fructus II, 315, Anders, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 14; Boiss. FI. Or. II, 22, 
Moringa arabica Pers. Syn. I, 460. 
Balanus myrepsica Belon Obs. p. 126. 
Hyperanthera Forsk. FI. Aeg. — Arab. p. 67. 
Description. — A small tree, 10 — 12 feet high, bark cinereo-fuscous ; 
branches divaricate; younger branches green. Rhachis 2 — 3-pinnate, 
4— 8-jugate, deflexed ; leaflets ovate, obtuse, entire. 
Panicles erect, axillary. Flowers herbaceous, glaucous, pedicellate ; 
pedicels bracteolate, articulate. Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate, 
subequal, oblong. Petals oblong-linear, reflexed, pale yellow, usually 
with carmine-red nervation. Stamens 10, unequal ; filaments yellow ; 
anthers unilocular. 
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