54 : ss CAPPARIDER (Sond.) | | Heliophala. 
Has. Fields, among shrubs, near the Zwartkops River, and near Bethelsdorp 
Uitenhage, FE. & Z. 8. Witpoortberg, 2-3000f. Drege. Aug—Sep. (Herb. E. Mey., 
Sond., T.C.D.) 
A shrub, t or more feet high, erect, with terete or angular branches and short 
branchlets. Leaves crowded on the upper branches, an inch long, 2 lines wide, sub- 
coriaceous, flat or with revolute margins, one nerved. Raceme 1-2 inches long. 
Pedicels 3-4 lines long, the uppermost shorter. Flowers small, yellowish white. 
Pods uncial, tapering at base and apex, 3 lines wide in the middle, attenuated into a 
style 1-2 lines long. Seeds orbicular, compressed, 2 lines in diameter. In habit and 
leaves very similar to H. brachycarpa, Meisn., but differing in inflorescence, flowers, 
and in the shorter anthers, and especially in the ovary. 
61. H. macrosperma (Burch. Cat. 3425) ; suffruticose, glabrous ; 
pods sessile, lanceolate, tapering into a short style ; leaves linear, acute ; 
racemes elongate lax. ; petals oblong. DC. Syst. 2. p. 695. Sond. l. ¢. p. 264. 
Has. In rocky places at Zwartwaterpost,' Burchell. Uitenhage, E. § Z. Sep-and 
following months. (Herb.Sond.) . 
Stem somewhat angled ; the branches terete, straight, virgate. Leaves often 
crowded at base, thickish or leathery, flat or subconcave, little narrowed at base, 
inch long, i1~14 lines wide. Flower stalks 3-4 lines long ; in fruit twice that 
length. Petals rosy, twice as long as the calyx. Pods sessile, or on a very short 
stipe, 1-1} inches long, 2-3 lines wide, gradually narrowed upwards from a broader 
base ; style 1-1} lines long. Seeds 11~2 lines long. 
H. lyrata, Thunb. Fl. cap. p. 496, is not a species of this genus, bu 
of Sinapis or Brassica. 
H. molluginea, DC. and H. liniflora, DC. (Syst. 2. p. 696), are not 
recognizable from the very bad figures so named. ee 
Orver VIII. CAPPARIDEZ. Juss. 
(By W. Sonpzr.) 
(Capparidee, Juss. Gen. 242. DC. Prod. 1. p. 237. Endl. Gen. 
No. clxxxii. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. exxv. : 
Sepals 4, separate or connate, mostly deciduous, Petals 4 or 8, or 
none, clawed, often unequal. Stamens 4, 6, or indefinite ; generally 
some high power of 4. Torus often elongate, columnar, carrying the 
_ stamens and pistil. Ovary mostly stalked, one celled, with parietal 
placentae and numerous ovules. /ruit either a podlike capsule, or 4 
“succulent or leathery, indehiscent berry. Seeds reniform, without al- 
oe Embryo carved or involute. 
Shrubs or herbaceous pl with alternate, exstipulate, simple oF 
d leaves and Co warner Eon Pubescence trequeatly glandular 
and foetid. Flowers often large and handsome, white, yellow or pink, regular or 
A considerable Order, chi ete ical. cubby and arbo- 
t apes, which chiefly tropical and subtropical. The shrubby 
herbaceous species, with podlike fruit, and frequently definite stamens, nearl: 
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