FLORA OF ADEN. 
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with the sepals, sometimes intermixed with subulate staminodes. Ovary 
free, 3 — 5-celled ; ovules co , attached to the interior angle of the 
cells; styles 3 — 5. 
Capsule membranous, included in the calyx, oblong, globose, or 
subcylindric, 3 — 5-celled, loculicidally 3 — 5-valved. Seeds several 
(rarely 1) in each cell, reniform, appendaged at the hilum or not; embryo 
more or less curved. 
Species about 12. 
Distribution :* — Tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres.. 
1. Nollugo Cerviana (L.) Seringe lMS ; DC. Prodr. I, 392; Anders. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 7 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 756; Harv.-Sond. FI. 
Cap. I, 138. 
Pharnaceum Cerviana L. Sp. PI. ed. I, p. 388. 
Description : — An annular erect slender glabrous herb 3 — 8 inches 
high. Stems very many, almost filiform ; branches umbellate, the nodes 
thickened. Radical leaves J — l inch long, rosulate, spathulate or 
linear-spathulate. Cauline leaves \ — J by about g 1 ^ inch, narrow-linear, 
apiculate, 2 — 8 in a whorl ; petioles obscure. 
Flowers numerous, on long filiform stiff pedicels subumbellately 
arranged, usually in threes on the top of long filiform axillary and 
terminal peduncles. Sepals ^ inch long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 
with white membranous margins. Stamens 3 — 5. Styles 3, very short. 
Capsules subglobose, equalling the sepals. Seeds numerous, smooth, 
without tubercular points, yellowish-brown. 
Flowers: — March 1878 (Perry). 
Fru its : — March 1878 ( Perry) . 
Locality Ravines at the foot of the hill of the telegraph office 
(Defl.) ; on sand in the great valley between Steamer Point and town 
(Marchesetti) ; under shrubs and in s^ndy places (Hook., Anders.) ; 
without locality (Birdw., Wichura, Perry). 
Distribution : — Tropical and subtropical countries of the Old World, 
also in Southern Europe. 
4. Limeuin L. 
Annual or perennial low branched glabrous herbs, sometimes frutes- 
cent at the base ; branches usually prostrate. Leaves alternate or sub- 
opposite, linear-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, entire or obscurely cilio- 
late ; stipules 0. 
Flowers small, bracteate, greenish, hermaphrodite or unisexual, in dense 
terminal and subaxil lary cymes. Sepals 5, unequal, ovate, herbacious 
or with membranous margins. Petals 3 — 5, oblong or spathulate, or 
minute, or 0. Stamens 5—1 0, sometimes imperfect, hypogynous;. 
