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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Locality : — W adi Maala (Schweinf.) ; plain o£ Maala, Shum Shum 
Range, Biggari and Koosaf Valley, ravines west and south-west of the 
Tower of Silence (DefL); great valley between Steamer Point and town 
(Marchesetti) ; everywhere (Edgew., Hook.) ; without locality (Balfour, 
Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Nubia, Uganda, British East Africa, x\ngola, German 
S.-W. Africa, German E. Africa, Nyasaland, Zomba, S. Arabia, 
Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab. 
3. Boerliaavia repens L. Sp. PL ed. I, 3 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. 
XIII, 453 inch. var. glabra) ; Del. El. chEgypte II, 2, t. 3, fig. 1 (var. 
minor); Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 16S, et in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV, 
App. II, 166 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. I, 882 (partly). 
Boerhaavia vulvarifolia Poir. Encycl. V, 55. 
Arabic names : — Chaddir, Chaddar, Rogama, Rugma. 
description : — Herbaceous, much-branched. Stems slender, cylin- 
drical, glabrous or nearly so, thickened at the nodes. Leaves in unequal 
pairs at each node, ovate or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, rounded at the 
base, slightly undulate, usually glabrous, rarely more than 1 inch long 
and 9 lines broad. 
Peduncles axillary, slender, bearing 4 — 10-flowered umbels ; bracts 
small, lanceolate. Perianth about 1 line long ; tube clavate, 5-ribbed, 
glandular between the ribs ; lobes very short, roundish, pinkish. 
Stamens 1—3, as long as or slightly longer than the perianth. Stigma 
peltate. 
Fruit \\ lines long, enclosed in the strongly 5-ribbed glandular basal 
part of the perianth. 
Locality: — Shaikh OThm an (DefL). 
Distribution: — Senegal, Nubia, Kordofan, Galabat, Eritrea, 
Abyssinia, Angola. 
XLI. — ILL ECE BRACED. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves usually opposite ; stipules scarious. 
Flowers minute, usually hermaphrodite, cymose, often with scarious 
bracts. Perianth herbaceous or coriaceous, persistent and often indurated 
after flowering, 4 — 5-lobed or 4 — 5 -partite. Petals 0. Stamens as 
many as the segments of the perianth (rarely fewer or more) and opposite 
to them, perigynous (rarely hypogynous) ; filaments short ; anthers 
didymous. Ovary free, 1 -celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, erect, or 
pendulous from a basal funicle ; style 2 — 3-fid. 
