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FLORA OF ADEN . 
the base ; sepals oblanceolate, acute, glandular-hairy and ciliate. Corolla 
scarcely J inch long, rose-coloured. Filaments short, filiform, glabrous ; 
anthers versatile, curved, the segments unequal. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 
seated on a somewhat cup-shaped disk j style glabrous. 
Capsule J inch long, narrowly ovoid, acuminate, pubescent. Seeds 
about inch long, oblong, truncate, longitudinally striately ribbed. 
Fruits: — Aug. 1898 (Birdw.). 
Locality /—Hill of telegraph office, ravine near Steamer Point, ravine 
on the northern slope of the Shum Shum Range (Def 1 .) ; great valley 
between Steamer Point and town (Marchesetti) ; above the coal depot of 
the Messag. Marit. (Schweinf.); along the path leading from Aden to the 
top of the Shum Shum Range between 500 and 1,300 feet (Busse) ; 
without locality (Edgew., Hook., Hildebrandt, Wichura, Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Upper Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Eritrea, northern 
coast of Somaliland, Socotra, S. Arabia, Sind. 
2. Anticharis arabica Endl. Nov. Sp. Stirp. Dec. 23, et Iconogr. 
t. 93 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. X, 317 ; Aschers. in Monatsber. Akad. 
Wiss. Berlin (1866) 881 ; Boiss. FI. Or. 1Y, 422 ; Almagia in Ann. 
Istit. Bot. Roma YIII, 137 ; This.-Dyer FI. trop Afr. IY, sect. 2, 276. 
Anticharis gland ulosa var. intermedia Terracciano in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma V, 103. 
Anticharis Schimperi Endl. Iconogr. XV ( nomen tan turn). 
Capraria arabica Steud. & Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. X, 347. 
Distemon campanularis Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex Aschers. l.c. 882. 
Description: — A slender erect branched shortly glandular- pubescent 
annual about 1 foot high. Leaves up to 14 lines long, 1 J — 2| lines 
broad, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, acute or somewhat acute, 
attenuated to the base ; petiole 1| — 2| lines long. 
Peduncles 2J — 4 lines long ,* bracts minute, subulate, inserted at 
about the middle of the peduncle. Calyx 1 — 1J lines long, deeply cleft ; 
segments about J line broad, linear or oblanceolate, acute. Corolla 
rose-coloured, somewhat viscid, 3 4 lines long ; lobes broad, rounded. 
Anthers free, pilose on the back ; basal lobes unequal. Style shorter 
than the corolla-tube. 
Capsule twice as long as the calyx, narrowly ovoid, acuminate or 
beaked. 
Flowers : — April 1890 (DefL), April 1894 (Lunt). 
Fruits /—April 1894 (Lunt). 
Locality Goldmore Valley, 200 feet (Lunt) ; without locality 
(DefL). 
