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FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Traganum nudatum Del. FI. d*Eg. p. 57 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. y, p. 31 ; Batt.et Trab. Fi. d'Alg. p. 763. 
Description : — An undershrub ; branches divaricate, adpressed to the 
ground ; branchlets slender, intricate, white, glabrous or scabridulous. 
Leaves alternate, oblong- triquetrous or terete, short, distant, fleshy, 
mucronate, dilated at the base, somewhat recurved, keeled, glabrous, 
glaucous ; axils fleecy. 
Flowers solitary or 2- — 3 together. Bracteoles ovate-triquetrous, a 
little shorter than the floral leaf. Calyx 5-fid ; segments membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, erect. Stamens 5, exserted ; filaments- com- 
pressed, deflexed ; anthers sagittate, ovoid-linear; style filiform, bifid, 
slightly shorter than the stamens. 
Utricle depressed, hidden in the hardened calyx, cylindric, ovoid-trun- 
cate, 1J lines long. 
Locality : — On the seashore (Anders., Zenker). 
Distribution: — Algeria, Egypt, Sinai, Suez, Libya, Nubia, Central 
and S. Arabia. 
5. Salsola Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs of various habit. Leaves 
alternate or rarely opposite, sometimes wide sheathing, short, long or 
scale-like, sometimes mucronate. 
Flowers small, solitary in the axils of the upper reduced leaves of the 
branchlets or spicate. Flowers hermaphrodite, subtended by 2 — 3 
bracteoles. Perianth 5 -partite.; segments concave, thickened on the back, 
in fruit furnished on the back with a large horizontal scarious wing, 
parts below the wing free or connate into an indurated cup. Stamens 5, 
usually hypogynous ; anthers obtuse or with the connective variously 
produced. Ovary globose or ovoid ; style long or short, stigmas 2, spread- 
ing, subulate ; ovule sub sessile or pendulous from the tip of a long 
funicle. 
Utricle included in the persistent winged perianth. Seed usually 
horizontal, orbicular ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; embryo spiral. 
Species about 40. 
Distribution .-—-Chiefly in temperate Asia and North Africa, several 
in South Africa, 1 in temperate North and South America, 1 in 
Australia. 
Branchlets nearly at right angles to the branches . . . 1. S. Botfcre. 
Branchlets not at right angles to the branches . . . 2. S. Forskalii. 
1. Salsola Bottie (Jaub. et Spach) Boiss. FI. Or. IY, 964 ; Schweinf. 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV, Append. IT, 161 ; This.-Dyer FI. Trop. Afr. VI, 
90. 
