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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Fruits : — March 1878 (Perry), Dec, 1847 (Hooker). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, above the coal dep6t of the Messag. 
Marit. (Schweinf.); “in locis depressis, rarissime ” (Hook.); without 
locality (Defl., Birdw.) ; common on rocks (Perry). 
Distribution : — S.-E. Spain, Teneriffe, N. Africa, Arabia, Afghanistan, 
Western Punjab, Sind. 
2. Forskolilea viridis Ehrbg. in Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. p. 537 r , 
DC. Prodr. XVI, 1,23566* Franch. Sert. Somal. in Miss. R6voil. p. 65 ; 
Hiern Cat. Afr. PI. part IV, p. 994. 
Chamaedry folia viridis O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. II, p. 625, (1891). 
Description : — An annual, erect, herbaceous-green or intensely green 
herb, 1 — 3 feet high, patently branched from the base upwards, with the 
habit of Mercurialis , Farietaria , or Urtica . Leaves f — 2 inches long 
and £ — 1 inch broad, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, attenuate at both 
ends or acuminate, entire towards the base, as to the rest coarsely and 
irregularly crenate-serrate or rarely subentire, of the same colour on both 
sides, or slightly paler on the under surface, nerves on the lower surface 
slightly pilose ; petiole half the length of the blade or shorter, puberu- 
lous or glabrate. Stipules ovate, acuminate, subscarious, pilose on the 
margins. 
Capitula distinct, not imbricate, 3- — £ inch long, turbinate. Flowers 
whitish to greenish, immersed in whitish woolly hairs. 
Flowers and fruits : — March 1878 (Perry). 
Locality Goldmore Valley (Defl.) ; near the tanks and other places 
very common, in shady ravines and on volcanic rocks (Schweinf.) ; top 
of Shum Shum Range at about 1,700 feet and more, gravelly slope near 
the Hindoo temple at about 3< '0 feet (Basse) ; without locality (Perry). 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Socotra, Abyssinia, Eritrea, Soturba, 
Mossamedes . 
