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FLORA OF ADEN . 
Calyx and corolla as in the male. Ovary ovoid, usually beaked 
2 — 3-celled ; ovules few on 2 — 3 placentas ; stigma 3-, rarely 2 — 4- 
lobed. 
Fruit a berry, fleshy, ovoid or ellipsoid, obtuse or beaked, oper- 
culately dehiscent near the base. Seeds few, tumid. 
Species about 15. 
Distribution : — India, Arabia, tropical Africa. 
Male flowers forming axillary glomerules of 3 — 5 . . 1. C. glomeniliflorus. 
Male flowers not so : — 
Anthers sessile . . . . . . 2. C. erostris. 
Anthers subsessile . . . . . 3. C. velutinus. 
1. Corallocarpus gloioeruliHorits Schweinf. Manuskr. Sammlung 
arab.-sethiop. Pflanzen (ex Krause). 
Rhynchocarpa Courboni Defl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XXXII, 349. 
Phialocarpus glomeruliflorus Defl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XLII, 304. 
Corallocarpus Gijef Schweinf. in Herb. Berol. (ex Krause). 
Description : — An erect undershrub, \ — 1J feet high, very scabrous; 
cortex green-succose on the inner side, at last papery, on the outer side 
suberose, white-cinereous, pulverulent ; caudex succose, short, thick- 
clavate in the upper half, branching at the apex ; branches spreading, 
rigid, sulcate, thickened at the base ; branchleto shortened or slightly 
elongate, ecirrose, leafy, densely woolly at the axils of the leaves, the 
lower internodes covered with the hardened remains of the old petioles. 
Leaves green, velutinous-scabrous, orbicular, of various size, often -J — | 
inch long and § — 4 inch broad, at the base deeply emarginate, sinuate- 
denticulate, subundulate ; petiole as long as the lamina or slightly 
longer. 
Flowers dioecious (?), greenish-yellow, minute, short-pedi- 
eelled. Male flowers forming axillary glomerules of 3 — 5 ; female 
flowers axillary, solitary, rarely geminate ; pedicels erect, immersed in 
wool. Male calyx very small ; tube globose-urceolate, hirsute, with the 
throat woolly-bearded ; limb rotate ; lobes linear-oblong, slightly acute, 
pubescent, as long as the corolla ; corolla rotate, pubescent ; limb 5-partite ; 
segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. Stamens 3, opposite the petals, 
attached to the throat ; filaments very short, complanate, glabrous ; middle 
anther 1-locular, lateral ones 2-locular, hippo crepiform ; loculi linear, 
arcuate, confluent at the apex ; connective broad, obtuse. Female calyx 
acute than the male calyx ; tube ventricose, adnate to the ovary, hirsute ; 
limb campanulate, lobed scarcely to the middle ; lobes deltoid-acuminate, 
acute, pubescent on the back, slightly longer than the corolla ; corolla 
campanulate, as to the rest as in the male ; ovary 2-placentiferous ; style 
