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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Description : — A large shrub or small tree ; branches and leaves 
ferruginous-villous. Branches armed with straight stipular spines, 
mostly stout, ivory-white, 1 — 2 inches long. Leaves small, often shorter 
than the spines, clothed with long hairs ; pinnae 4 — 8, small, scarcely 2 
lines long, with a petiolar gland ; leaflets densely arranged, 8 — 12 pair, 
linear, acute; peduncles axillary with a bract below the middle. 
Flowers yellow, with an unpleasant smell ; heads under J inch in 
diameter, fasciculate, reddish brown while in bud. 
Pod 2 — 5 inches long, ^ — \ inch broad, linear, slender, flat, veined, 
generally 2 — 4 from one flower-head, edges undulate. Seeds (in Schweiu- 
furth's specimens 5 — 7 in one pod) dark-grev, oval-spherical, J inch 
long, almost J as broad, very little laterally compressed. 
Flowers and fruits: — December (Schweinf). 
Locality : — In the Upper Wadi Maala, not far from the top of the' 
Shum Shum Range (Schweinf.) ; Goldmore Valley (Defl.) ; great valley 
between Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; without locality 
(Hook., Anders., Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Ceylon, Deccan, Sind, Salt Range, Subhimalayan 
tract and outer valleys, ascending to 3,000 feet, east as far as Oudh, 
Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Arabia. 
2 . Acacia Edgewortliii (Edgew.) Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V,. 
Suppl. p. 18 ; Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX, 504. 
Acacia erioloba Edgew. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI, 1215 (non E 
Mey.) . 
Arabic name : — Ssamma, Khereb, Quaratt. 
Description : — Low shrub ; stem glaucous ; young branches often, 
pubescent; pinnae 3 — 6-jugate; petioles subtomentose ; spines straight,, 
long, albescent or puberulous ; leaflets 6 — 10-jugate, linear, obtuse, 
minutely pruinose. 
Flowers white ; peduncles shorter than the leaves ; bracts almost at 
the base of the peduncle (not above the middle as stated by Bentham 
1. c.) . Filaments white ; anthers yellow. 
Pod 5 inches long, 4 lines broad, linear, falciform, tomentose, obs- 
curely striate, 14-seeded (Anderson). 
Flowers : — November to March. 
Fruits : — March (Schweinf ). 
Locality .-—Wadi Maala, Goldmore Valley (Schweinf.) ; plain of 
Maala (Defl.) ; above the town on rocks (Busse) ; common (Edgew 
Hook, Anders.). 
Distribution : — Yemen (Defl.). 
