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FLOBA OF ADEN. 
(Hildebranclt) ; neighbourhood of Aden (Hunter) ; without locality 
(Thomson, Oliver & Cl., Balfour). 
Distribution : — Yemen, Somaliland (Herb. Kew). 
Uses /—The unripe follicles are edible (Hildebr.) . 
5. Daema R. Br. 
Twining pubescent or tomentose perennial herbs or undershrubs. 
Leaves opposite, cordate. 
Flowers medium-sized, in lateral racemose or corymbose peduncu- 
late cymes. Calyx 5-partite. glandular inside. Corolla yellowish-or 
greenish-white ; tube short, campanulate or cylindric ; lobes 5, ovate, 
spreading, overlapping to the right in bud ; corona double, the outer 
at the base of the staminal column, membranous, annular, shortly 
5-lobed, the lobes subquadrate or oblong, obtuse, truncate or denti- 
culate, the inner corona of 5 erect fleshy lobes spurred at the base, 
adnate to the wtaminal column up to the anthers, free above and produced 
into subulate horns incurved over the style-apex. Staminal column 
arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; anthers erect, with a mem- 
branous inflexed appendage. Style-apex exserted ; pollen-masses waxy, 
1 in each anther-cell, compressed, attached in pairs to the pollen- 
carriers by their attenuated ends without caudicles. 
Follicles lanceolate, usually echinate. Seeds comose. 
Species 6. 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia. 
1. Dremia cordata (L.) R. Br. Wern. Soc. I, 50 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 
60; This.-Dyer FI. trop. Afr. IV, 386; Batt. et Trab. FI. d’Alg. II, 
586. 
Pergularia tomentosa L. Mant. p. 53. 
Asclepias cordata Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 49. 
Dsemia incana Dene. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. II, II, 336. 
Dsemia tomentosa Pomel Nouv. Mat. FI. Atl. 82 ; Vatke in Oest* 
Bot. Zeitschr. (1876) 146. 
Arabic name Demia. 
Description : — Stems shortly tomentose, with or without a mixture of 
long hairs, sometimes slightly hispid. Leaves deflexed ; petiole — I 
inch long; blade | — 1J inches long, 5 lines to inches broad, cordate- 
orbicular or cordate-ovate, apiculate or shortly cuspidate, rather thick, 
tomentose on both sides. 
Flowers in a corymb-like raceme, which (including the peduncle) 
is 1 — 2 inches long, tomentose or shortly and softly hairy, as are also 
the i — I inch long pedicels, and the 1 — 2 lines long ovate acute 
