200 
FLOBA OF ADEN . 
subglobose, 2— 4-celled ; ovules many, placentas axile; style thick, 
slightly longer than the stamens ; stigma capitate. 
Capsule globose, stalked in the base of the calyx-tube, coriaceous, 
irregularly breaking up, ultimately 1 -celled. Seeds closely packed 
on a central placenta, angular, pyramidal. 
Species 1. 
Distribution: — Not exactly known; probably indigenous in N. 
and E. Africa, Arabia, Persia, the drier parts of the Peninsula of 
India and Ceylon ; cultivated in many tropical and subtropical countries. 
1. Lawsonia inermis Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 (1753) 349 ; Bedd. El. 
Sylv. 118, t. 14, f. 6; Blanco FI. Filip, ed. Manila II (1878) 21, t. 
108 ; Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. IV (1883) 36; in Engl. & Prant. 
Pflanzenfam. Ill, 7 (1891) 15, f. 6 ; in Engl. Pflanzenreich IY, 270 ; 
Cook FI. Bomb. Pres. I, 511. 
Lawsonia spinosa Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 (1753) 349 (non Lour.). 
Lawsonia alba Lam. Enc. Ill (1789) 106; DC. Prodr. Ill 
(1828) 91: Wight 111. I (1840) 207, t. 87; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 
67 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 97 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. II, 573; Trim. FI. Ceyl. 
II, 228; Brandis Ind. Trees 340; Baill. Hist. PI. YI (1877) 433 f. 
407-409. 
Alcanna spinosa Gaertn. Fruct. II (1791) 133, t. 110. 
Casearia multiflora Spreng. Pugill. II (1815) 116 (non Jacq.). 
Botantha combretoides Bak. in Journ, Linn. Soc. XXY (1890) 317. 
Mail Anschi Rheede Hort. Malab. I (1678) 73, t. 40. 
Cyprus s. Alcanna Rumph Herb. Amb. IV (1750) 42, t. 17. 
Arabic name : — Henneh, Alhenna. 
English Name: — Egyptian Privet. 
Description : — A glabrous much branched shrub ; lateral branches 
4-gonous, often ending in a spinous point. Leaves 4 — 1J by \ — § inch, 
elliptic or broadly lanceolate, acute or obtuse, often mucronulate, base 
tapering ; petioles very short or 0. 
Flowers numerous, less than | inch across, fragrant, white or 
rose-coloured, in large terminal pyramidal panicled cymes ; pedicels short, 
slender. Calyx J inch long, broadly campanulate ; lobes y 1 ^ — J inch 
long, ovate, acute. Petals & inch long, as broad as long, suborbicular or 
subreniform, undulate. Stamens 8, inserted in pairs on the calyx-tube. 
Capsule y inch in diameter, globose, slightly veined outside, 
supported by the persistent calyx and tipped with the style. Seeds 
trigono-pyramidal, about y 0 inch long, externally subtuberculate. 
Locality : — Shaikh CPthman (Ellenbeck, Busse, ex Krause). 
