ThyhcUum.'] ix. capparidace^; (oliver). 83 



omlifolium, Juss. in Ann. Mus. xii. 71 {ex DC. 1. a). T. querimbense and 

 T. verrucosum, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 163-4. 



Mozamb. Distr. Shire river, Zambesia, Dr. Kirk ! Querimba, Peters ! M'Gteta 

 nver, 7-8° S. lat., Speke and Grant ! 

 Nearly allied to T. heterophgllum, Juss. {T. Sumangui, Boj.), a Madagascar species. 



4. MiEEUA, Forsk. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 108. 



(Niebuhria, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 1. c. 107.) 



Sepals 4, connate below in a tubular or infundibuliform tube, valvate in 

 estivation ; lobes deciduous ; tube more or less persistent. Petals or 4, 

 inserted in the mouth of the calyx-tube. Disk usually distinct, lining the 

 calyx-tube, with or without a free toothed fimbriate or nearly entire margin, 

 stamens indefinite, inserted upon a columnar torus which usually equals or 

 sightly exceeds the calyx-tube; filaments free. Ovary cylindrical linear 

 oblong or ovoid, on a long gynophore, 1-celled or 2-celled owing to the meet- 

 ln g of the placentary plates ; ovules indefinite, strictly parietal or inserted 

 u pon the spurious dissepiment; stigma sessile or subsessile. Fruit baccate, 

 ovoid globose or narrow and torulose, the constrictions of the pericaip some- 

 ™nes separating it into numerous 1-seeded segments. Seeds (which have 



T*. e * amuie d in very few species) are described as reniform or subreniform ; 

 j^yledons incumbent, convolute, sometimes fleshy.— Shrubs or small trees 



estitute of spines, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate, 



ten with minute setaceous stipules. Flowers axillary solitary or fascicled, 



T m ter minal racemes or corymbs. 



also a C t°M? I 'ri rabIe genus extcndl 'ng from Senegal eastward through Arabia to India; occurring 

 tae Cape, in Madagascar, and the Islands of the Indian Ocean. 



*Leaves all, or many of them, 3-foliolate. 

 » . Petals present. 



^L.w 163 p ° besce nt. Leaflets elliptical to ovate-lanceolate. Petals 



Glabr !t globose • • • L tri P h ^ Ua - 



PotT °l P uberul ous. Leaflets oval to oblanceolate, acute or obtuse. 



Gl V vate or oval . . , , 1. M. nervosa. 



J,\^\ ^fct 8 narrow-linear, 1-2 lines broad. Petals obovate, 



"Peculate 3. M. Grantu. 



Glabm Petals 0. 



ns - Leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acuminate *• M - acuminata. 



*Leaves simple. 

 leaves riJ Petals present. 



oval H ° r linc ar-oblong, 1^-3 in. Disk margin 0. Petals 



m£ n rUlt torulose • • h. M. oblong folia. 



elnU g or ovate-elliptical. Petals rotundate. Fruit sub- . 



gl0b08 e l 6. M. cethwpica. 



(See M. rigida, var. buxifolia.) 



Uaves 1 Peials °- 



tW^ 01 ^ 6 ' ovate or obovate, l-2£ in. Ovary not pointed. 

 firaJi, f or >ilose . , ....... 1- M - angolensis. 



t J!!£z Leav ea small, \-% in., obovate to linear-oval, scabrid 

 mooth - Ovary linear or clavate, not pointed. Fruit torulose 8. M. ngida. 



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