Cappark.] ix. capparidace.e (oliver). 95 



Leaves ovate-oblong. Flowers in axillary sessile or subsessile fasci- 

 eles of 4-6. Pedicels and calyx pilose -tomentose 8. C. Rothii. 



Glaiicescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, emarginate. Flowers 

 small, subcoryinbose 9. Q. mkrantha. 



* Extremities usually destitute of stipular spines. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate with a reflexed mucro. Flowers in 

 axillary or terminal corymbs or racemes. Fruit oval-oblong . . 10. C. 1 reflexa. 



Leaves 3-4 in., obovate or obovate-oblong, on very short petioles, 

 scabrid above. Flowers in terminal umbels. Petals short . . 11. C. Kirkii. 

 B. Two outer sepals much shorter than the two inner (wbich are peta- 

 loid) after expansion. Flowers axillary, solitary. Ovary angular 

 or winged. Usually with stipular spines. (Sect. Petersia.) 



leaves elliptical obtuse or acuminate. Outer sepals enclosing the 

 hud, about half as long as the inner after expansion. Ovary 

 glabrous 12. C. erythrocarpa. 



•Leaves elliptical, obtuse. Outer sepals spreading before expansion 

 of the bud, about one-third or a quarter as long as the inner 

 after expansion. Ovary torneutose 13. C. rosea. 



1- C. aphylla, Roth, Nov. Pi. ty. 238. A much-branched, glabrous 

 tree or shrub. Branches tBrete, leafless, excepting in young plants and on 

 barren shoots, usually with short, nearly straight or ascending, stipular 

 fpmes. Leaves, when present, linear or linear-lanceolate. Flowers about 1 

 % diam., in lateral and terminal fascicles or corymbose racemes. Pedicels 

 j in. or shorter. Sepals unequal in breadth ; the anterior outer sepal larger 

 and deeply saccate, but slightly imbricate or subvalvate (at least the 2 outer) 

 J estivation. Ovary on a gvnophore of \-% in. Style about half as long 

 m the ovary. Fruit ovoid, pointed or subglobose, several- or many-seeded. 



G Sodwfa, Brown in Denham and Clapp. App. 20. Sodada decidua, 

 orsk - «• -Egypt. 81 ; Delile, Fl. iEgypt. t. 26. 



North Central. Bomou, Oudney {Brown). 



P t T* and- Nubia > Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Seuuar. 



"tends eastward through Arabia to India. 



2 - C. spinosa Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 245. A glabrous or more or less 

 tomentose, trailing 'shrub ; the extremities usually puberulous or tomentose, 

 /nied with recurved or nearly straight, stipular spines. Leaves coriaceous, 



undate or from broadly obovate to broadly ovate, retuse or entire, mucro- 

 W P f e gfeen or glaucescent, $-1} in. diam. ; petiole 1-2 lines. Flowers 



8 e > 1-3 in. across, axillary, solitary or forming loose, unilateral, leafy 

 ' h meS 'i Peduncles equalling or exceeding the subtending leaf. Sepals 

 sar T m ,en oth, the two outer deeply concave or the anterior more deeply 

 ate. Petals white, exceeding the sepals. Fruit oval-oblong or clavate, 



~ a 8tron g gynophore of 1£ in., separating at length into 3 or 4 valves. 



? Bfcptia, Lara. Diet. i. 605 ; Delile, Fl. iEgypt. t. 31. f. 3. 



jMeLand. Kordofan, Kotschy I TI7 . 



w cstern 

 5, and 



C « galeata, Fresen. in Mm. Senck. ii. 111. A glaucous, leafy, dif- 



