ln 
Schepperia. | CAPPARIDEZ (Sond.) 59 
= Tribe II. Capparna, 
Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. 
VI. SCHEPPERIA, Neck. 
Calyx coloured, 4-leaved, the two outer sepals keeled ; the front 
sepal largest. Petals none. Stamens 8, on the summit of a long, fili- 
form, curved torus, which has a hood-shaped nectary at its base, on 
the upper side. Ovary stipitate, ovate or oblong, unilocular ; ovules 
numerous, on four parietal placentz ; stigma sessile. Berry cylindrical, 
glandular. DC. Prod. 1. p. 245. Endl. Gen. No. 4991. 
A South Afri leafless, twiggy shrub, with widely spreading, spiny-pointed 
‘branches. Picwere: yellowish or purplish, in ecihneayaatcans racemes : ssadlicula uni- 
bracteate at base. Named, it would seem, in honor of some obscure botanist, 
whose memory has otherwise passed away. 
1, §. juncea (DC. 1c.) ; Linnea 1, p. 255. tab. 3 Cleome juncea, 
Sparm. Ian. Syst. p. 605. (non. Thunb. Fl. Cap.) Cl. aphylia, Thunb. 
#1. Cap. p. 497. Macromerum junceum, Burch. Trav. 1. p. 388. Schep. 
aphylla and S. juncea, E. & Z. En. No. 106, 107, 
Has. Karroo, beyond Hartequa’s Kloof, Thunberg. Great Fish River, Bergius. 
Garriep, Burchell, Swellendam, Clanwilliam, Graaf Reynet and Uitenhage, Z. d Z. 
In the same districts, and also in the far imterior, Drege, Krauss. (Herb. Sond., 
Hook, T.C.D.) 
A much branched, twiggy, pale-coloured shrub, 2 feet high. Branches alternate, 
rarely opposite or whorled and crowded, erecto-patent or widely spreading, terete, 
alternate, subspinous. Leaves none, except, on the young branches, acute leaf- 
scales, 1 line long. Racemes corymbose, lateral, short. Flowers yellow or purplish : 
peduncles 6-8 lines long, clammy. Sepals ovate. Stamens mostly 8. Fruit 
a sausage-like berry, 14~2 inches long, as thick as a goose quill, terete, viscid, 
densely glandular, unilocular, many seeded. Seeds compressed, subcordate. 
VIL CADABA, Forsk. 
Sepals 4, unequal, two outer valvate, covering the two inner in the 
bud, Petals (40r) none. Stamens 4-6, on the summit of a cylindrical, 
stipelike torus, which has a tongue-shaped, tubular nectary at its base. 
Ovary stipitate, unilocular, numerous : stigma sessile. Berry cylindri- 
cal, subtorulose. DC. Prod. 1. p.244. Endl. Gen. 4993- | 
Unarmed shrubs, found in tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa, glabrous or 
glandular. Leaves seta: Sane or trifoliola Flowers axillary solitary, 
Name, Kadhab, the Arabic name of C. rotundifolia. 
1, C. Natalensis (Sond. Linn. 23. p. 8) ; unarmed, apetalous ; leaves 
petiolate, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, mucronulate, 
coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers axillary, on long peduncles, two outer 
sepals concave, 2 inner flat, suborbicular, mucronate ; stamens 6, nectary 
lageniform, with a curved neck, split at the side ; the mouth toothed ; 
berry cylindrical, elongate. 
Has. Natal, Gueinzius, No. 87. (Herb. Sond.) : 
= comite rt and sescotl cloves 12-15 lines long, 4—5 lines wide at the tip ; 
petioles 3 lines long. Peduncles subsolitary in the axils, somewhat racemose toward 
the ends of the branches, #-1 inch long. Sepals equal, the outer reddish ; inner 
