FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Peduncles 1 — 3 from each axil, about J inch long. Calyx-teeth short . 
rounded. Petals connate nearly throughout, scarcely twice the calyx. 
Pod linear-oblong, straight or nearly so, compressed, narrowed at each 
end, margins narrowly compressed, valves continuous, slightly convex, 
firmly coriaceous, faintly longitudinally striate, yellowish- grey, puberu- 
lous, 5 — 10-seeded, 2 — 3 inches long. 
Fruits: — March 1H 78 (Perry). 
Locality : ^-Aden (Birdw., Perry, Beevor). 
Distribution : — Abyssinia, Nubia. 
6. Acacia mellifera (Forsk.) A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. I, 241 ; 
Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. I, 507 et Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX, 517 ; 
Schweinf. Linnsea XXXV, 365 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 340. 
Mimosa unguis cati Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 176. 
Mimosa mellifera Vahl Symb. Ill, 103. 
Inga mellifera Willd. Sp. PI. IV, 1006. 
Arabic name : — Dsub, Kittr or Tekker. 
Description : — A shrub or small tree, wholly glabrous, with brownish 
or sometimes pale and glaucous extremities, unarmed excepting a pair 
of short recurved infra-stipular prickles, usually below each node. Leaves 
as broad as long, not exceeding 1 — 2 inches, glaucous at least beneath ; 
pinnae in 2 pairs ; leaflets unijugate, obliquely obovate-oblong or 
obovate-rotundate, obtuse entire or retuse, the larger leaflets J ^ inch 
long. 
Spikes axillary, fascicled, equalling or exceeding the leaves. Pedicels 
about equalling the short truncate purple calyx. Petals 3 — 5 times longer 
than the calyx, apparently united to the middle. Stamens white. 
Flowers with the odour of Syringa. 
Legume flat, few-seeded, oblong, continuous or sinuous, apiculate, 
narrowed at the base, valves thinly coriaceous, transversely venose, pale 
and glabrous, 1£ — 2 inches long, J — f inch broad. 
Flowers : — March and December (Schweinf.) . 
Locality: — Shum Shum Range, upper Wadi Maala (Schweinf.); 
ravine south-west of the Tower of Silence (Defl.) ; without locality 
(Birdw.) . 
Distribution: — Yemen, Eritrea, highlands of Somaliland, Kordofan, 
Abyssinia, Nubia, Togo. 
7. Acacia beta R. Br.j Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1842, 
508; Schweinf. Acacien Arten d. Nilgeb. 367, t. 19, 20, 21 ; Reliq. 
Kotschyanse, t. 1, 2 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 34. 
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