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lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didvnamous, included ; filaments fili- 
form ; anther-cells distinct, separated, stipitate, all bearing pollen. Style 
filiform, subclavate at the apex. 
Capsule oblong or ovoid, bisulcate, dehiscence loculicidal; valves 
entire. Seeds many, minute, semi-immersed in the fleshy placentas. 
Species 14. 
Distribution: — North-East Africa, Arabia, India, Malaya, China. 
1. Lindenbergia sinaica (Dene.) Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 22 ; DC. 
Prodr. X, 377 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 425 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, 
Suppl. p. 27. 
Bovea sinaica Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. II, II, 253. 
Description : — A divaricately much branched densely glandular- 
pilose undershrub ; branches np to about 1 foot long. Lower leaves 
suborbicular — ovate or ovate, 3 — 7 lines long and broad, usually shortly 
petiolate, coarsely crenate-dentate, acute or obtuse, rounded or cuneate 
at the base ; uppermost leaves sessile, smaller, shorter than the calyx. 
Flowers opposite in loose secund racemes 6 — 12 inches long ; pedicels 
| lines long. Calyx — 2 lines long, densely glandular-pilose ; teeth 
ovate or ovate-elliptic, unequal, 4 — § lines long, acute. Corolla 7 — 8 
lines long. 
Capsule oblong, slightly longer than the calyx, glandular-pilose 
above. 
Flowers and Fruits: — January 1872 (Thomson), February 1851 
(Thomson), March 1878 (Perry), April 1894 (Lunt), Nov. 1888 
(Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hooker). 
Locality :— In old wells (Hook., Anders.); Goldmore Valley, 100 
feet (Lunt) ; Goldmore Valley, above the coal-depot of the Messag. 
Marit. (Schweinf.) ; on the Shum Shum Range (Busse) ; without 
locality (Birdw., Hildebrandt, Perry ) . 
Distribution : — Sinai, Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, highlands of Somali- 
land, Central and S. Arabia, Socotra. 
5, Canipylantluis Rotli. 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, linear, subfleshv, entire. 
Flowers in terminal racemes often secund ; pedicels with 2 bracts 
near the base. Calyx deeply 5-fid or 5-partite ; segments imbricate. 
Corolla-tube elongate, slender, incurved ; lobes 5, orbicular or ovate, 
spreading, subequal, imbricate, the lateral exterior in bud. Stamens 2, 
included ; filaments short ; anther-cells divaricate, their tips confluent. 
Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in each cell ; style short or long, straight 
or indexed ; stigma capitate. 
