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columnar, very short, glabrous, no basilar disk ; stigmas 2, orbicular,, 
large, irregularly lobulate, deflexed ; ovules 2 -— 4 , horizontal ; placentse 
tumid, pulpy. 
Fruit (imperfectly ripe) i — | inch long, J inch broad, pubescent, 
ovate, attenuate into an oblique rostrum, longitudinally 10-costate from 
the rostrum to the fourth or fifth lower part ; rostrum cylindrical, 
subarcuate; dehiscence doubtful, probably basilar. Seeds ovate- globose, 
subcompressed, black, minutely punctate, glabrous. 
Fruits: — March (Schweinf.). 
locality On the Shum Shum Range (Defl.); Wadi Maala, above 
the coal depot of the Messag. Marit., plateau below the top of the Shum 
Shum Range at a height of about 1,300 feet (Schweinf.) ; without 
localitv (Beevor, Hildebrandt ) ; on the Jebel Mtizulghum of Little Aden 
(Defl.)'. 
Distribution :- — Yemen. 
Note : — Defiers says that this species attains its normal development 
only in the wooded valleys of the Jebel J Areys (in Fodhli). In the 
neighbourhood of Aden, where the climate is extremely dry, only a very 
poor form is to be found, often leafless and sometimes with leaves much 
reduced. After the showers the leaf- buds develop very rapidly, but 
are soon arrested in their growth by the succeeding dryness. 
*2. Corallocarpus erostris (Schweinf.) Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 567. 
Rhynchocarpa erostris Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 
1868, p. 673. 
Description :■ — Stem sparingly branched, angular, pruinose, sparsely 
hairy. Leaves orbicular, deeply sinuate-cordate, with 5 obtuse or rounded 
obscurely toothed angles, scabrous above, tomentose ashy scabrous below, 
nerves flattened. Tendrils woody pubescent. 
Male flowers : Racemes very long, dense-flowered, ebracteate ; pedicels 
puberulous, bracteolate in the middle. Corolla 5-lobed to the middle, 
yellow-green, three times as long as the calyx. Anthers sessile ; cells 
oblong, obtuse, connate by the dilated connective. Female flowers : Racemes 
short, axillary, sessile, subfascicled, much smaller than the male. 
Fruit ovoid, orange-yellow, glomerate, base constricted, apex acute 
or obscurely beaked, 4 — 6-seeded, resinous when dry. Seeds globose, 
somewhat compressed, yellow or brown, margined, marked with elevated 
lines. 
Locality: — Valley on the south-western slope of the Shum Shum 
Range (Defl.); near. the coal-depot of the Messag. Marit. (Schweinf.). 
Distribution : — Yemen, Eritrea, Nubia. 
3* Corallocarpus velutinus Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. I, 831. 
