FLORA OF ADEN , 
801 
2 . Saltia R. Br. 
A small glabrous rigid shrub ; branches woody, cylindric. Leaves 
scattered, sessile, narrowly obovate, entire, slightly fleshy, glaucous. 
Mowers in lax simple or paniculately branched spikes, dioecious, 
bracteate. Male flowers 2-bracteolate, not supported by sterile flowers ; 
female flowers with 3 — 4 irregularly inserted bracteoles, supported on each 
side by an imperfect flower. Perianth shortly and stoutly stipitate, 
papery, 5-partite ; segments subequal, ovate-oblong, subacute, obscurely 
3 — 5-nerved, sericeous on the back, unchanged when fruiting. Stamens 
5, in female flowers minute, anthers empty, in male flowers inserted on a 
cupular ring, filaments subulate, anthers linear-oblong, 2-locular. Ovary 
obovoid, at the apex dilate, convex ; style filiform ; stigma capitellate ; 
oVule 1, suspended from an elongate funicle. 
Utricle almost equalling the perianth in length, oblong, membranous, 
indehiscent. Seed inverse, oblong, turgid ; testa membranous, brown, 
adherent to the floury aJbumen; arillus 0; embryo peripheric; 
cotyledons linear-lanceolate, concave, incurred at the apex; radicle 
slender, erect. 
Species 1 . 
Distribution : — S. Arabia. 
1. Saltia papposa (Forsk.) Moq. in DC. Prodr. XIII, 2, p. 325; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 32. 
Achyranthes papposa Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 48. 
Description: — A shrub up to 10 feet high, cinereous; stem erect, 
subterete, few-branched ; branches spreading, puberulous, with green 
bark. Leaves alternate, subsessile, the lowest attenuate into a short 
petiole, linear, acute, mucronulate, nerveless, glabrous, glaucous. 
Spikes short, narrow, on terminal branches. Flowers approximate, 
2 — 4-bracteate ; bracts small, carinate, mucronate, slightly villose, one 
persistent. Sepals 5, ovate, concave, acute, 4-nerved, villose, the inner 
ones 3-nerved. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate, compressed, dilate at 
the base and forming a cupular ring. Style simple, terete, almost twice 
as long as the stamens; stigma capitate, globose, entire. Ovary 
glabrous. 
Flowers: — March 1878 (Perry), April 1861 (Thomson), June 1872 
( Hildebrand!) , December 1847 (Hooker), December 1889 (Defl.). 
Fruits: — March 1878 (Perry), March 1888 (Schweinf.), April 186 1 
(Thomson), June 1872 ( Hildebrand!) , November 1888 (Schweinf.), 
December 1847 (Hooker), December 1889 (Defl.). 
Locality .-—Above the European cemetery of Steamer Point, Goldmore 
Valley, valley at the foot of the 3 hum Shum Range, above the coal-depot 
