FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Description : — A low shrub, glabrous or nearly so ; stems smooth, 
terete. Leaves membranous, obovate or ob lanceolate, tbe apex obtuse, 
or acute, acuminate or apiculate, narrowed to tbe base ; edges dentate, 
serrate or sub-serrate ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry • 
glandular ; main-nerves 3 — -6 pairs, curving upwards ; length J — 2| inches, 
breadth J — 1J inches ; petioles inch long. 
Capitula \ inch in diameter, in compound puberulous corymbose cymes, 
much longer than the leaves ; involucral bracts few, rather broad, 
obtuse. Florets of the disk 3 ; those of the ray numerous. 
Cypselas minute, ribbed, nearly glabrous ; pappus scanty, spreading, 
reddish-white. 
Flowers : — June 1872 (Hildebrandt) . 
Locality : — On sandy seashore near Shaikh Othman. 
Distribution : — British India, Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. 
Note : — Vatke who named HildebrandCs plant says: “ Habitus 
piantse summitatibus decerptis paullulum mutatus, sed procul dubio 
hue refero.” — We have not seen the specimen. 
3. Ipliiona Cass. 
Branching shrubs, more or less glabrous or scabrid, with alternate 
entire or toothed leaves and yellowish- white capitula, either solitary 
or cvmose. 
Capitula homogamous, discoid ; florets usually all tubular and 
hermaphrodite. Involucre campanulate or ovoid, bracts multi-seriate, 
imbricate, dry, more or less scarious ; receptacle narrow, naked. Anther- 
base sagittate with slender tails. 
Aohenes subterete or hirsute, 8 — 10-costate. Pappus 1— go -seriate ; 
setse copious. 
Species 10. 
Distribution : — Chiefly Mediterranean and Mascarine. 
1, Ipliiona scabra Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. II, II, 263 ; DC. 
Prodr. VI,: 4.75; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 22; Boiss. 
FI. Or. Ill, 210 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. Ill, 360. 
Description : — Shrubby, scattered with short, glandular, scabrous 
pubescence ; branches ascending, numerous. Leaves subulate-pungent, 
sessile, ^ — 1 inch long, with 1 — 3 spines about J inch long at the 
base on each side. 
Capitula campanulate, { inch long, about 14 -flowered, solitary, 
axillary and terminal, often crowded on pedicels ranging up to 
1 inch long. Scales of the involucre 3 — 4-seriate, puberulous. Recep- 
tacle inch wide, naked. 
