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FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Kissenia spatliulata R. Br. in Herb. Mus. Brit.; Anders. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 43; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 501. 
Fissenia capensis Endl. Gen. PI. Suppl. IT, 76 [sine descript.) ; 
Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 98. 
Cnidone Mentzeloides E. Mey. in Herb. Drege, et Presl Bot. 
Bemerk. p. 73. 
Description : — A half- woody shrub, 4 — 5 feet high ; stem erect, striate, 
scabrous-papillose ; cortex pale. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 2 inches 
long, 1 — 1| inches broad, the lower ones 3 — 7-lobed, the upper ones 
linear-lanceolate, bracteiform, acute, sinuate-dentate, rough on both 
sides ; petiole £ inch long, terete, striate, dilatate at the base, prolonged 
into a prominent nerve. 
Calyx accrescent; tube ovate, in fruit 1J inches long, 10-costate, 
ribs fulvous-pilose; limb 5-partite ; lobes long-spathulate, subherbaceous, 
3-nerved, reticulately nervate, scabrous. Corolla half as long as the 
calvx-lobes, stramineous; petals 10, biseriate, the 5 larger ones alternate 
with the calyx-lobes, carinate, ovate, concave, the smaller ones 
opposite the calyx-lobes, iigulate, angular-incurved. Styles 3, short. 
Fruit woody, 3-locular, often monospermic by abortion, crowned 
by 5 membranous wings of the persistent accrescent calyx. 
Flowers : — April 1861 (Thomson), April 1878 (Perry), November 
(Schweinf.), December 1889 (Defl.). 
Locality .-—Plain of Maala (Schweinf., Defl.) ; gravelly slope of 
Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; Goldmore Valley (Lunt) ; common 
on northern slopes [ Perry) ; without locality (Courbon, Thomson, 
Birdw.) . 
“ The Kissenia is quite abundant in two or three places in Aden. 
Notably on the slopes stretching from the road leading to the cutting 
through which the road passes to the town of Aden from Steamer 
Point. It also grows on Steamer Point. I am told that often two 
or three years pass without this plant being seen at all. The present 
year 1878 follows a rainy season which is exceptional.” Perry in 
folio Herb. Kew. 
Distribution : — Yemen, Hadramaut, Somaliland, Namaland, Damara- 
land. 
Dote : — Anderson gives an explanation of how the original ( Kissenia 3 
became to be known under the name of ‘ Fissenia 3 : 
“ Since the printing of this Florula,” he says, “ I have seen a 
specimen of a Fissenia , collected at Aden by Dr. Courbon, of the French 
exploring expedition under the command of Captain Russel, and kindly 
communicated to Dr. Hooker for my inspection by Prof. Brongniart 
of Paris. This is the plant upon which Brown founded the genus and 
