FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Follicles thick, acuminate, usually echinate. Seeds comose. 
Sjoecies 7. 
Distribution /-—Tropical Africa, Arabia, Persia, Baluchistan, Sind. 
1, Glossonema Boveanum Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. II, IX, 335 , 
Anders. Journ. Linn. See. V, Suppl. p. 24 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 61 ; 
This. -Dyer FI. trop. Afr. IV, 292. 
Gomphocarpus pauciflorus Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, 
n. 920. 
Petalostemma chenopodii R. Br. in Salt Toy. Abyss. App. p. 64. 
Glossonema affine N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. (1895) p. 249. 
Description : — A dwarf herb, 3 — 10 inches high, branching from the 
base. Stems ascending, more or less pubescent with white hairs. Leaves 
spreading; petiole 1 — 6 lines long ; blade J — 1J inches long, 1J — 7 lines 
broad, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneately narrowed or 
broadly rounded into the petiole at the base, more or less undulate or 
crisped on the margins, thinly or densely white-pubescent on both sides 
or glabrous above. 
Flowers 1 — 3 together, sublateral; pedicels 1 — 1^ lines long, white- 
pubescent. Sepals H — 1J lines long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. 
Corolla-tube 1 line long, campanulate ; lobes spreading, 1^ — 2 lines 
long, J — 1 line broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
slightly thickened above or subtuberculate near the apex, with the 
margins recurved, glabrous or with a few hairs on the back. Coronal- 
lobes arising a short distance below the sinuses of the corolla, If — 2 
lines long, f line broad in the broadly oblong basal half, 3-lobed, 
with the middle lobe long and filiform, or subtruncately or somewhat 
abruptly contracted into a filiform or subulate point, or occasionally 
filiform-acuminate. Staminal-column 1 line long ; anther-appendages 
reniform, very obtuse. Style protruded for about f line beyond the 
anther-appendages ; apical part stout, conical, obtuse or shortly bifid. 
Follicles 1| — 2 inches long, 7 — 11 lines thick, ovoid, acute, strongly 
echinate, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Seeds about 2 lines 
long, 1J lines broad, ovate, flattened, very minutely scaberulous, dark 
brown. 
Flowers: — April 1894 (Lunt). 
Fruits: — January 1872 (Thomson), April 1894 (Lunt). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, hill near Steamer Point, above Maala 
(Schweinf.) ; ravine on the northern side of the Shum Shum Range, 
Koosaf Valley, ravine south-west of the Tower of Silence (Defl.) ; top of 
Shum Shum Range above 1,400 feet (Busse) ; Aden port, nearly sea-level 
