ni 
FLORA OF ADEN, 
suborbicular. Stamens 5 ; anthers sagittate, apiculate. Disk indistinct- 
ly lobecL Ovary depressed globose ; style short ; stigmas 2 (rarely 3), 
oblong-linear. 
Fruiting perigone winged, | inch in diameter. 
fruits : — -In December in Yemen (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — At the entrance of the Goldmore Valley (Schweinf.); 
without locality (Birdw.). 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Nubian coasts Eritrea. 
6. Anabasis Linn. 
.Perennial herbs or shrubs, branches jointed. Leaves opposite, fleshy 
or obsolete. 
Flowers small, solitary or clustered, axillary, 2-sexual, female minutely 
2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, scarious, fruiting winged or not . Stamens 5, 
on a short disk, alternating with 5 staminodes. 
Utricle included or exserted, subglobose, dorsaily compressed, dry or 
fleshy ; style short, stigmas 2, subulate. Seed erect, orbicular, compres- 
sed ; testa membranous or coriaceous ; albumen 0 ; embryo spiral. 
Species 17. 
Distribution : — Mediterranean region, Western and Central Asia, 
N ubia. 
1. Anabasis Elirenbergii Schweinf. in Boiss. PL Or. IV, 970; Bulb 
Herb. Boiss. (1896) Append. II, 161. 
Description : — A glabrous undershrub with a woody caudex. Branches 
prostrate, up to 1 § feet long, rooting, very elongate, terete, subarticulate, 
with a whitish cortex ; branchlets abbreviate, 1—6 inches long, erect, 
almost uniseriate ; internodes J- — -J inches long. Leaves opposite, thick, 
patent, decussate, semi-amplexicaul ; the younger ones up to ^ inch long, 
oblong, subterete, mucronate or apiculate ; the old leaves t 1 q inch long, 
often densely arranged at the base of the branchlets, subglobose, slightly 
acute or quite obtuse ; in the axils short, whitish, woolly hairs. 
Flowers axillary, solitary ; bracteoles setiform, indistinct. Perigone- 
lobes b, divided to the base, lanceolate, slightly obtuse at the apex, soon 
indurate, equal, thickened in the centre of the back, margin broadly 
membranous, sometimes irregularly denticulate, (wings ?). Stamens 5, 
included; anthers attached at the middle; loculi very acutely apiculate. 
Ovary globose-ovoid, laterally compressed ; stigmas 2, purple, rarely 3, 
recurved, linear, half as long as the style, always a little longer than the 
perigone. Ovule pendent from a long funicle. 
Seed probably vertical. 
Flowers — Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.). 
