FLODA OF ADEN. 
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“ A plant about 1J feet high, broom-like, with long shoots, dichoto* 
mously branched, basal parts and roots strongly woody. Leaves oblong 
or linear, mostly rounded at both ends, but often pointed, by J or 
tV by 4 inch, with a much rougher structure than the common form, 
which probably represents the annual type. The involucral glands, 
style, and seed correspond, in spite of the great differences in the habit 
of the plant, with the characteristics of the typical form/'’ 
3- Euphorbia grainilata Forsk. Fi. Aeg.-Arab. 94 ; Vahl. Symb. 
II, 54 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 1087, et DC. Prodr. XV, 2, p. 33 ; Hook. FI. 
Brit. Ind. V, 252 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 569. 
E. Forskalii, var. ft. et y, J. Gay in Webb. Phyt. Canar. Ill, 242. 
E. fragilis Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat- ser. 2, (1834), 241. 
E. arillata Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, vol. 16, 1218 [fide Hook. 
f-) 
E. villosa Herb. Boyle. 
E.thymifolia Wall. Cat. 7710, E. 
Anisophyllum Forskalii Klotzsch et Garcke in Bot. Beise Prz. Wald. 
Bot. 25. 
var. glabra t a Boiss. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2, p. 34 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. VII, Append. II, 314. 
Arabic name: — Lebbena, Um-el-lebben (Schweinf.), 
Description : — A small slightly hairy plant with a perennial root, 
stems many from the root, prostrate, leafy, 3—6 inches long, less brittle 
than the typical plant. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ^ ^ by TU s inch, 
obliquely oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded or retuse at the tip, quite 
entire, base narrow or rounded or subcordate, the upper ones glabrate ; 
petioles short ; stipules minute, ciliolate. 
Involucres minute, axillary and on short leafy branchlets, subsessile, 
turbinate, inch long ; gland usually without a limb. 
Capsule inch in diameter ; cocci hirsute, rounded at the back, not 
keeled ; styles very short, 2-fid. Seeds quadrangular, bluntly pointed, 
yV iuch long, faintly pitted ; testa very mucous when wetted. 
Flowers and fruits .-—April 1894 (Lunt). 
Locality : — Gravelly slope of Shum Shum Bange (Ellenbeck); Plain 
of Maala, nearly sea-level (Lunt); without locality (Edgewd; Little Aden 
(Defl.). 
Distribution (of the species) : — Cape Verd Islands, Canaries, Morocco, 
Algeria, Sinai, Egypt, Nubia, Kordofan, Darfur, Central and Southern 
Arabia, N. Somaliland, S Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, Sind. 
