FLORA OF ADEN . 
843 
shorter than the style j stigmas ovate-deltoid. Capsule erect, ovate, | 
inch long. 
Flowers : — March 1884 (Yerbury), Aug. 1897 (Birdw.), Nov. 1884 
(Beevor) . 
Locality Only found within the last 200 feet of the Shum Shum 
Range and there only on the ridge extending eastward from the old Arab 
fort ” (Yerbury in epist.) ; without locality (Beevor, Birdw.). 
Note : — <e The species of this genus are widely spread over tropical 
n,nd South Africa but none have been hitherto recorded from as far north 
as Arabia. The section to which it belongs ( Pallastema ) is typically a 
Tropical African one, and it seems most nearly allied to A . abyssinica 
Jacq.” Ridley. 
& Littonia Hook* 
Rootstock a fleshy tuber, or bulb. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of many of the leaves, bright coloured. 
Perianth campanulate, cut down nearly or quite to the base ; segments 
equal, oblong-lanceolate, nectariferous and obscurely saccate at the base. 
Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary globose, sessile, 
3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style entire in the lower part, 3- 
forked upwards ; stigmas minute, capitate. Capsule coriaceous, septici- 
dally or loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds globose or compressed ; testa 
brown ; albumen firm ; embryo minute. 
Species about 8. 
Distribution : — Tropical and S. Africa, Arabia. 
1. Littonia minor Defl. Bull. Soc. Bot. France XXXII, 353, fig. 
354, et XLIII (1896), 232. 
Local name -Little Aden Lily (Yerbury). 
Description : — A low herb, glaucescent, younger parts inconspicuously 
papillose-puberulous ; bulb yellow, globose, the size of a cherry ; radical 
fibres slightly fleshy, short \ tunica thinly membranous, forming a tubular 
sheath, split above and loosely surrounding the stem ; caulis erect, simple, 
subterranean part slender, very long, measuring 6 — 7 inches, 
aerial part green, sulcate, 3 — 6 inches long, leafless up to the middle, upper 
part provided with leaves. Leaves sessile, semi-amplexicaul, linear, long 
attenuate-acuminate, very acute, subacuminate at the apex, the lower ones 
3-5 inches long and often in verticels of 4, the upper ones irregularly 
scattered, gradually getting smaller. 
Flowers ebracteate, terminal, usually 2, sometimes 3 — 4-verticillate, 
erect, long-peduncled ; peduncle 8-10 lines long. Perigone campanulate, 
