FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Description : — An undershrub, 1—2 feet high, silky-tomentose, 
branches ascending. Leaves | — lj inches long, petiolate, stipulate, 
usually bijugate ; leaflets 2—6 lines long, opposite, linear-oblong or anceo- 
late, mucronate, softly pubescent on the upper side, silky -tomentose on 
the lower. 
Racemes elongate, subaphyllous. Flowers solitary or 2 together, 
pedicel 1 — 2 lines long. Calyx silky ; segments subulate, acute. Corolla 
longer than the calyx ; vexilium purple, silky-hirsute on the outer side. 
Pod suborbicular, acute, long-apiculate with the persistent style, 
1- seeded. Seed olivaceous, 1-| lines long. 
Floivers : — December 1889 (Defl.), January 1880 (Balfour), March 
1850 (Madden), March 1878 (Perry), April 1894 (Lunt), August 1898 
(Birdw.) . 
Fruits: — December 1889 (Defl.), January 1880 (Balfour), February 
1851 (Thomson), March 1850 (Madden), March 1878 (Perry), April 
3894 (Lunt), June 1872 (Hildebr.), August 1894 (Birdw.), November 
1888 (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, plentiful not far from the sea 
(Schweinf,); Koosaf Valley (Defl.); gravelly slope of Shum Shum Range 
(Ellenbeck); Aden port, nearly sea level (Lunt) ; without locality 
(Edgew., Madden, Hooker, Thomson, Amderson, Hildebrandt, Balfour, 
Perry, Birdw.). 
Distribution .-—Yemen, Eritrea. 
6. Sesbania Scop. 
Herbs or soft-wooded trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 
leaflets numerous, linear-oblong, obtuse, quite entire, mucronate, decidu- 
ous. 
Flowers in axillary lax racemes. Calyx campanulate, shallowly 
2- lipped or 5-toothed. Corolla much exserted ; petals all with long claws ; 
standard orbicular, or ovate, spreading or reflexed ; wings falcate-oblong ; 
keel obtuse and straight, or subrostrate and recurved. Stamens cliadei- 
phous, anthers uniform. Ovary usually stalked, many-ovulate, style 
incurved, glabrous, stigma small capitate. 
Pod very long and narrow, dehiscent, septate transversely between 
the seeds. Seeds numerous, oblong or subquadrate. 
Species about 40. 
Distribution : — Throughout the tropics. 
The following tree is planted for ornament in the village of Shaikh 
Othman : 
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