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FLORA OF ADEN. 
swollen part of the corolla, surrounding the style ; anthers sessile, ovate- 
oblong, bifid at the apex. Style glabrous, T \ inch long ; stigma inch 
long, the stigmatic ring surmounted by a long cone which is penicillate 
at the apex with erect white glistening hairs. 
Nutlets 4, ovate in longitudinal section, inch long, slightly 
incurved, rounded and rugose or tuberculate on the back, cuneate on 
the inner face, 2-seeded. 
Locality : — South-eastern slope of the Shum Shum Range (Defl.) ; 
without locality (Birdw.) - 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa, Central and S. Arabia, W. India 
from the Punjab to the W. Deccan Peninsula. 
3. Helio tropin in pterocarpum Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. PL 
Abyss, n. 835 ; DC. Prodr. IX, 552 ; Bunge, Monogr. Heliotr. p. 53. 
Heliophytum pterocarpum DC. Prodr. IX, 552. 
Description : — An annual. Stems short, spreading, slender, densely 
clothed with whitish bristly hairs. Leaves small, oblong, sessile or shortly 
petioled, thick, crisped on the margin, densely hispid on both sides. 
Spikes short, ebracteate, very dense, much curved. Calyx densely 
hispid, 2 lines long ; tube short ; lobes oblong, free nearly to the base, or 
more or less united, 3 lines long. Corolla-tube narrowly campanulate ; 
lobes small, orbicular. Stamens inserted just below the middle of the 
corolla-tube ; anthers oblong. Stigma conical, as long as the glabrous 
style, together 1 line long. 
Nuts glabrous, cohering in pairs, margined with a broad horny wing, 
with a rounded sinus at the apex. 
Flowers: — January 1863 (Oliver & Cl.). 
Locality: — Goldmore Valiev (Schweinf.); without locality (Birdw.,. 
Oliver & Cl.); Shaikh OThman (Defl.). 
Distribution : — Yemen, Socotra, Eritrea, British Somaliland. 
4. Ileliotropiimi opliioglossum Stocks ex Aitch. Cat. PI. Punjab 
p. 94; Boiss. PL Or. I, 145; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 149. 
Heliotropium stvlosum Franck. Sert. Somal. in Miss. R6voil. p. 45, 
tab. 4. 
Description : — An undershrub, 6 — 15 inches high, branched from near 
the base ; stems and branches hoary with soft hairs and also clothed with 
stiff hairs arising from white bulbous bases. Leaves f — 1| by inch, 
densely hirsute with stiff: hairs and also clothed with a softer pubescence; 
the lower leaves petiolate, elliptic, acute, running down into the petiole ; 
the upper leaves subsessile, lanceolate, acute, all with subentire, undulate 
margins. 
