810 
FLORA OF ADEN. 
prepared in the Abdali and Fadhly districts. The balsam is thrown into 
small pits, about 2 feet wide by 1 deep, and wood is added : the mass is 
then set fire to, and as the sap exudes from the plant, it mingles with the 
ashes ; the mixture is stirred and allowed to cool, when it is dug up and 
sent to Aden on camels for sale. The price is 8 annas per maund of 28 
lbs., and the potash is exported to Bombay for washing purposes/"’ 
3, Siueda fruticosa Forsk. FI. Aegypt.-Arab. CIX and 70, Ic. 9; 
Moq. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, Vol. 23, 311, t. 20 et in DC. Prodr. XIII, 
II, 156 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 939 ; Volk, in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. 
III, 1 a, 80; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV, Append. II, 157; 
This. -Dyer FI. trop. Afr. VI, 91 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres, II, 505. 
Chenopodium fruticosum Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I, 221. 
Salsola fruticosa Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 321 ; Sowerby Engl. Bot. t. 
635. 
Salsola indica Wall. Cat. 6916, C. (not of Willd. !). 
Salsola lana Edgew. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II (1840) 286. 
Lerchea obtusifolia Steud. Nomeucl. ed. I, 187, 474; Hievn in Cat. 
Afr. PI. Welw. I, 900. 
Lerchea maritima y. fruticosa O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. II, 549. 
Arabic name .* — Doluq, Deluq. 
Description: — Shrubby, usually erect, much-branched; stem pale, 
glabrous. Leaves fleshy, subsessile, ^-terete, variable, -g-— f by | 
inch, linear-oblong or ellipsoid or somewhat obovate, obtuse, narrowed at 
the base ; the floral leaves short. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, solitary or 2 — 3»nate; bracteoles 
membranous, about inch long', ovate, acute, entire or with slightly 
denticulate margins. Perianth in fruit subglobose, ^ inch long; 
segments thick, oblong, concave, obtuse, incurved. 
Utricle obovoid, thickened at the top ; stigmas 3, short, spreading. 
Seeds inch long, obliquely ovoid, somewhat beaked, slightly com- 
pressed, smooth and shining, black when ripe. 
Locality : — Eastern shore of the Isthmus (Schweinf.). 
Distribution : — North Africa and Europe, extending to England and 
through the Orient to Western India. 
Uses : — The plant is eaten by camels. 
3. Siraeda baccata Forsk. Descr. PI. Aegypt.-Arab. p. 69; Schweinf. 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV, Append. II, p." 157; Volk, in Engl. & 
Prantl Pflanzenfam. Ill, 1 a, 80. 
Schanginia baccata Moq. in DC, Prodr. XIII, II, 154 ; Boiss. FI. 
Orient. V^ 244. 
