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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Note: — The plant is full of a colourless astringent juice which stains 
white blotting-paper red and iron black ( Schimper) . 
4, Chrozophora Neck. 
Diffuse densely hispid or stel lately tomentose herbs. Leaves alter- 
nate,, sinuate-toothed or lobed, wavy or plicate, 2 -glandular at the base. 
Flowers monoecious, in axillary bracteate racemes, the males crowded 
in the upper part of the raceme, the females solitary, pedicellate, in the 
lower part. Male flowers : Calyx globose or ovoid, splitting into 5 
valvate segments. Petals 5, short. Disk obscure. Stamens 5 — 15 ; 
filaments connate below in a column in 1 — 3 series ; anthers oblong, the 
cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode 0. Female flowers : Sepals 5, 
narrow. Petals 5, very narrow, sometimes setaceous or obsolete. Disk of 
5 short broad glands alternating with the petals. Ovary 3-celIed ; 
ovule solitary in each cell ; styles erect or spreading, 2-fid. 
Capsule of 3 hispid, tomentose or lepidote, 2-valved, almost fleshy 
cocci. Seeds estrophiolate ; testa shining ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
broad, flat. 
Species about 6. 
Distribution : — Mediterranean, Asiatic, and African. 
1, Chrozophora obliqtia (Forsk.) Juss. Monogr. Euph. p. 28 ; DC. 
Prodr. XV, 749 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 1141 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. V, 409. 
Chrozophora tinctoria Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2, 749, 
Chrozophora oblongifolia A. Juss., Spreng. Syst. Ill, 850 ; Anders. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 36. 
Croton obliquus Yahl Symb. I, 78. 
Croton oblongifolius Del. FI. (F Eg. p. 139, t. 51, fig. 1. 
Croton argenteus Forsk. FI. A eg. -Arab. p. 75. 
Croton tinctorius Wall. Cat. 7716, G. 
Arabic naw,e : — Tenun. 
Description : — Shrubby, erect or suberect, much-branched, thickly 
stel lately tomentose. Leaves 1 — 2 by l — f inch, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
sinuate-toothed, subobtuse, clothed on both sides with stellate tomentum, 
base rounded or cuneate, usually 2-glandular ; main nerves few, promi- 
nent beneath ; petioles J-l inch long ; stipules linear, soon falling. 
Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes, the males in the upper part 
sessile, the females in the lower part pedicellate ; bracts linear, hairy, 
inch long. Male flowers ; Calyx | inch long, densely stellately 
