Cadaba.] ix. capparidace,e (oliver). 89 



Glabrous. Leaves rotundate, 1-1£ in 1. C. rotundifolia. 



Glandular-pilose or hispid. Leaves rotundate, \~\ in 2. 0. glandulosa. 



Petals present, clawed. Stamens 4 or 5, aduate \-\ length of gyno- 



phore. 

 Mealy-puberulous at first. Leaves oblong, obtuse, often small. 



Appendix tubular. Stamens 4-5 3. C.farinosa. 



Glabrous or extremities minutely mealy. Leaves linear-oblong or 



lanceolate. Stamens 4 . 4. C. longifolia. 



Extremities glandular-pilose. Leaves elliptical, scabrid or glabrate. 



Appendix tubular-infuudibuliform, short. Stamens 5 . . . . 5. C. Kirkii. 



1. C. rotundifolia, Forsk. ; DC. Prod. i. 244. Extremities minutely 

 puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, orbicular or rotundate, glabrous, with 1 or 

 ■ pairs of the»principal lateral veins from near the base; 1-1J in. diam. on 

 petioles of about i-J in. Flowers in terminal racemes. Bracts subulate or 

 obsolete. Petals 0. Appendix about f in. long, ligulate, lamina elliptical, 

 °Muse, folded back over its claw in bud. Stamens 5 ; filaments adnate 1-2 

 J'nes with the gynophore, which is at length £-f in. long. Ovary 1-celled, 

 pacentas 2. Fruit linear, dehiscing in 2 valves, about lj in. long. Seeds 

 **Sorm.Strcemia rotundifolia, Vahl, Symb. i. 19. 



,7*' le ^and. Abyssinia, Salt I Roth ! Schimper, and others ; Nubia, Bromfield I 

 Used as a drastic purgative in helminthiasis.'*— Roth. 



2 - C. glandulosa, Forsk. ; DC. Prod. i. 244. A much-branched shrub, 

 glandular-pilose with short, spreading, viscid hairs. Leaves orbicular, ob- 

 late or broadly elliptical, with or without a mucro, more or less shortly 

 PUdular-hispid or sometimes scabrid, usually 3-6 lines in diam., rarely 

 j^ce as large. Racemes few-flowered, terminating the branches and lateral 

 jots. Petals 0. Appendix f-1 in. long, ligulate, the lamina petaloid, 

 l °ng obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 5, very shortly adnate to the base of 

 e gynophore. Ovary 2-celled, owing to the cohesion of the placentary 

 ¥ Mes. Fruit oblong-ellipsoidal, $ in. long or rather less, on a gynophore of 



1 4 w.—Strcemia glandulosa, Vahl, Symb. i. 20. 



W U ^ and> Nubia > Kotschy ! Abyssiuia, Roth ! Schimper {ex Rich.) ; Kordofan, Cien- 



J£; Soturba, Nubia, Schweinfurth! 

 • ar abian. A slightly scabrid or nearly glabrous variety occurs at Aden. 



res ' ?' farinos a» Forsk. ; DC. Prod. i. 244. A shrub or occasionally arbo- 

 W ° ften dense ty branched, the extremities terete, and more or less 

 vaiv ~ me J^y- Leav es coriaceous in the desert forms, oblong oval-oblong or 

 somf, lan ceolate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate or rarely 



first i f raucronulate and acute, pale glaucous-green or whitish and mealy at 

 time gUl slabrate ' f-2 in. long, -J--1 in. broad, in desert forms some- 



How ^ Sma11 and fascicle d; petiole about 1 line, rarely 3-4 lines. 

 rJracr 8 ? Sh ° rt terminal racemes, or terminating short lateral branches. 

 titties 1 Fe f ce(l t0 minute scales or obsolete, except the lowest, which is some- 

 th e sei' Petals 4, linear or narrow-oval clawed, exceeding or equalling 

 ntnsnrt u A PP endix tubular, obliquely open, and often toothed at the 

 H ent /* sllor ter than or nearly equalling the sepals. Stamens 4-5 ; fila- 



2 „l adnate f-i wav up the gynophore. Ovary cylindrical, 1-locular, with 

 Ug :„ " Uas - Stigma sessile. Fruit patent, subterete or slightly torulose, 



n - ] °ng, on a gynophore of £-f in. or rather more. Seeds renil'orm- 



