•] IX. CAPPARIDACE^ (OLIVER,). 85 



the calyx-tube. Ovary ovoid or ellipsoidal, 2-locular owing to the meeting 

 of the placentary plates ; ovules about 6, strictly parietal or inserted upon 

 the spurious dissepiment ; stigma sessile. Fruit not seen. 

 Mozamb. Distr. 6°-7° S. lat., 38°-39° E. long., Speke and Grant ! 



4. M. acuminata Oliv. Extremities slender, glabrous. Leaves 3- 

 foholate or the upper simple ; leaflets petiolulate, rather coriaceous, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often tipped with a rather long slender mucro, 

 base rounded or obtuse, glabrous ; central leaflet usually larger, 2-3 in. 

 long, 1-1 a in. broad. Petiolules often 2-3 lines. Flowers in axillary 

 corymbose racemes towards the ends of the branches. Pedicels slender, 

 about 1 in. long ; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx-tube tubular below ; free 

 margin .of the disk toothed, very short. Petals 0. Columnar torus equal- 

 ling or exceeding the calyx-tube. Ovary ellipsoidal or oval, 1-celled, with 2 

 placentas, each with about 10 ovules in 2 rows; stigma sessile. Fruit not 

 seen. 



Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk ! 



5. M. oblongifolia, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 32. A shrub or small tree, 

 the branches slender, glabrous smooth or minutely scabrid-puberulous. Leaves 

 simple, rather coriaceous, oblong to narrow linear-oblong, obtuse or some- 

 times retuse, often mucronate, glabrous, l£-3 in. long, 4-9-lines broad. Petiole 

 H$ lines. Flowers in terminal racemes or corymbs or terminating short lateral 

 shoots, the lower flowers in the axils of leaves, the bracts of the upper minute 

 « obsolete. Calyx-tube tubular, rather shorter than or sometimes exceeding 

 *■ oval rather acute lobes. Petals narrow-oval, clawed. Free disk-margin 

 0r v ery minute, toothed. Columnar torus exceeding the calyx-tube. Ovary 

 ln ear 1-celled with 2-multiovulate placentas; stigma sessile. Fruit in- 

 erf upted or torulose, not exceeding 1 in. in length in our specimens, on a 



©nophore of f-l-| in._ftich. Fl. Abyss. Tc. 6. Niebuhria oblongifolia, DC. 

 rrod - 1- 244. M. angustifolia, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. 29. t. 8. 



22* Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 



£°rth Central. Kouka, E. Vogell , „ , , v , . 



hSuttT^ Ab y ssinia - Whimper I Roth ! White Nile, Speke and Grant ! Khartoum, 



^erj ^nearly aUied to the Indian M. armaria, Hook. f. et Thorns. (Niebuhria arenaria, 

 • ' wp pam heteroclila, Roxb.), differing in its rather longer calyx-tube. 



J- M. aethiopica, Oliv. An erect, virgately-branched, glabrescent 

 slab aves subovate-elliptical to oblong, acute or obtuse, mucronate, 



in lI° US exce Pting the puberulous midrib on the upper face, the larger 3-4- 

 eai«! ?' Flowers corymbose, disposed in lax, leafy panicles ; pedicels and 

 suWk-'T'v puberulous. Segments of the calyx elliptical. Petals shorter, 

 the ol ' raucr <>™te, shortly clawed. Stamens 2-2* times longer than 

 W • 0var T ellipsoidal, at length subglobose, glabrous ; ovules 6-b. 

 • 7 cor laceoU9) subglobose b tuS el y apiculate. Stipes equalling or exceed- 

 S l ^ped,cel.— Niebuhria athiopica, Fenzl in Wien. Sitzungsb. h. (Lxtr. 4). 



e "titl h ed V « e n n0t ^ ^W*! The above description is taken from Dr. Fenzl's memoir, 

 •agnoses previse Pemptadis Stirp. Jithiop. novarum.' 



