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FLORA OF ADEN . 
1, Oldeiilandia Sehimperi Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. 
p. 21 ; Boiss. FI. Or. Ill, 11 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. Ill, 55. 
Kohautia caespitosa Schnizlein in Flora XXV, Beibl. I, No. 10, 
p. 145. 
Kohautia Sehimperi Hochst. et Steud in Schimp. PI. Abyss, 
no. 879. 
Hedyotis Sehimperi Presl. in Dredge PL Cap. exsicc., and Bot. Bern. 
[ (1844) p. 85. 
Hedyotis spec. inc. Edgevv. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI, 1216. 
Kohautia arabica Hochst. 
Oldeiilandia retrorsa Boiss. FI. Or. Ill, 12. 
Description : — An ascendent or decumbent, rigid, glandular-scabrous 
perennial or annual, 1 — 3 feet high. Branches virgate, leafy at the 
base, sparingly so above, terete. Leaves linear, sessile J — 1J inches 
long ; stipules 3 — 1-cuspidate. 
Flowers tetramerous, § — J inch long, subsessile and pedicellate, in 
terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate. Corolla 
salver-shaped ; tube slender, several times the length of the calyx ; lobes 
narrowly oval, sub-obtuse, } inch long. 
Capsule subglobose, subdidymous, truncate and loculicidally 
splitting at the apex ; base subturbinate. Seeds angular. 
Flowers: — March 1878 (Perry), April 1861 (Thomson). 
Fruits: — February 1851 (Thomson), March 1878 (Perry), Apiil 1861 
(Thomson), December 1847 (Hook.). 
Locality : — Maala (Schweinf.) ; plain of Maala, Goldmore Valley 
(Defl ) ; Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; steep gravelly slope at the 
end of the great valley between Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; 
in sandy places (Edgew., Madden, . Hook., Anders.) ; without locality 
(Birdw., Perry, Balfour). 
Distribution : — Nubia, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Kilimandjaro, Sansibar, 
Socotra, Central and South Arabia, Baluchistan, Sind. 
3 , Oldenlaudia Stricta Linn. Mant. (1781) 200 ; Hook. FI. Brit. 
Ind. Ill, 68 ; Trim. FI. Ceyl. II, 316. 
Hedyotis maritima Wall. Cat. 6192 (partim) ; Moon Cat. 10; 
Thw. Enum. 144. 
Hedyotis graminifolia Linn. f. Suppl. I, 119. 
Oldenlandia graminifolia DC. Prodr. IV. 425. 
Description : — Annual or perennial, with a woody base, and numer- 
ous, erect, slender, wiry, sub-quadrangular, glabrous, dichotomously 
branched stems, often 2 feet high ; leaves 1 — 1£ inches, sessile, linear, 
very acute, glabrous ; stipules adnate to the base of the leaves and with 
them forming a close sheath round the stem, mouth truncate, ciliate. 
