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FLOBA OF ADEN. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs ; peduncle slightly enlarged upwards. 
Calyx cup-shaped, usually embracing the base of the fruit, obscurely 
toothed. Corolla about J inch in diameter, greenish-white ; lobes 5 — 6, 
ovate, acuminate, often indexed at the apex. Ovary ovoid attenuate, 
smooth. 
Berry oblong-linear, acute, usually less than i j inches long, on ped- 
uncles of about equal length. 
Locality .-—Near the Flag-Staff (Defl.). 
Distribution : — Widely dispersed in the tropics ; probably originally 
from South America. 
Note : — Defiers is of opinion that C. annuum has been brought to 
Aden not very long ago. As a matter of fact, no botanist before Defiers 
has reported this plant as growing in Aden. 
XXXIV.— SCHOPHULAMACm 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves all or the lower only opposite, 
rarely all alternate or who fled; stipules 0. 
Flowers usually irregular. Calyx inferior, 5-, rarely 4-merous. 
Corolla hypogynous, more or less 2-lipped or occasionally personate, 
4 — 5-lobed. Stamens usually 4 with or without a rudimentary 5th, less 
commonly 2 or 5 ; anthers 1 — 2-celled, the cells distinct or more or less 
confluent. Disk annular, cupular, or glandular. Ovary superior, usually 
2-celled ; ovules many, rarely few in each cell, anatropous or amphitro- 
pous ; style simple ; stigma various. 
Fruit usually capsular ; placentas on a free central axis or attached 
to the margins of the valves. Seeds small, of various shapes; hilum 
lateral or ventral ; albumen fleshy, rarely absent ;• embryo straight or 
curved. 
Genera about 200 ; species about 2,200. 
Distribution .-—Throughout the world. 
Leaves all alternate ........ 3.' Anticharis. 
Leaves the lower at least if not all opposite 
Corolla spurred or subsaccate at the base in front. 
Corolla spurred ....... 1. Linaria. 
Corolla subsaccate 2. Schweinfurthia. 
Corolla not spurred nor subsaccate. 
Stamens 2 5. Campylanfchus. 
Stamens 4 ...» 4. Lindenbergia. 
1. Linaria Juss. 
Herbs, more rarely undershrubs. Lower leaves usually opposite, the 
upper nearly always alternate, quite entire, dentate or lobed. 
