60 CAPPARIDEH (Sond.) - [Niebuhria. 
petaloid, white. Torus 1 inch long; nectary 4 lines long. Fruit inch long ; its 
stipe 4 lines. 
VIII. NIEBUHRIA. DC. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, with a cylindrical, persistent tube and 4-parted, 
campanulate deciduous limb ; valvate in estivation. Petals none or 
very small. Stamens very numerous, on the summit of a cylindrical 
torus. Ovary stipitate, unilocular, with numerous ovules ; stigma ses- 
sile. Berry ovoid or oblong ; seeds few, reniform, lying in pulp. DC. 
Prod. 1. 243. Endl. Gen. No. 4995. 
Shrubs or small trees, natives of S. Africa and tropical Asia. Leaves alternate, 
3-5-foliolate, with minute, setaceous stipules. Flowers axillary, or terminal, corym- 
bose, or racemose. Name in honor of Carsten Niebuhr, author of Travels in Arabia. 
1, N. triphylla (Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beytr., 2. p. 29) ; leaves 
ternate, leaflets oblong, ovate-oblong or obovate, not conspicuously 
veined ; raceme terminal, flowers without petals. Oapparis triphylla, 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 430. Crateva caffra & C. avicularis, Burch.—Nieb. 
caffra, avicularis, & olecides, DC. Prod. 1.p. 243, 244+ 
Has. Banks of Kamtou and Zeekoe rivers, Thunberg. Caffraria, Burchell. In the 
forest of Adow, and by the Zwartkops R., Uitenhage, Z.d:Z., Port Natal, Guemzus. 
(Herb. Sond., Lehm., T.C.D.) 
A glabrous shrub, 2 or more feet high, with yellowish branches ; branchlets leafy. 
Leaves coriaceous : petiole-furrowed, 4 lines to 14 inches long ; leaflets articulated to 
the petiole, obtuse or retuse, with or without mucro, one nerved, obsoletely veined, 
dull green above, paler below, the middle one 1~2 inches long, lateral ones shorter. 
Flowers corymboso-racemose, axillary ; peduncles 8-10 lines long. Calyx 4 inch 
long, subturbinate ; segments oblong, acuminate, concave. Stamens flexuous, 28 
long as calyx. Ovary ona stipe twice as long as the stamens ; stigma discoid. 
Berry pyriform, 3 inch long, shorter than its stipe. 
2. N. nervosa (Hochst. in Flora, 1844) ; leaves ternate, leaflets ob- 
long, ovate-oblong or obovate, evidently veiny on the under side ; Ta 
ceme terminal, corymbose ; petals four. 
Has. Port Natal, in woods and on the sands, Dr. Krauss. (Herb. T.C.D.) 
Known from J. triphylla, which it closely resembles in aspect, by its strongly 
nerved leaves, 4 petalled flowers and more obtuse and shorter calyx lobes. Sepé 
4 lines, petals 2 lines long ; stamens and ovary as in the preceding. It agrees with 
Streblocarpus, Arn, in its corolla, but differsin the shorter ovary and trifoliolate leaves. 
_8. N. rosmarinoides (Sond. Linn. 2 - eaves ee 
“FdBolidte . . 23. p. 7); glabrous ; leaves 37 
_foliolate, leaflets much longer than the petiole, linear, mucronate, with 
rots gins, pale underneath ; corymbs terminal ; petals 4. 
AB. Port Natal, Gueinzius. 467. (Herb. Sond. 
iole a terete, ramuli numerous, short. pas most often 3-foliolate, the 
ride, eral dere petiolules very short ; middle leaflet 13-2 inches long, @ line 
to 4 rae Js - Lower peduncles axillary, 8-10 lines long. Calyx 3 lines 
6 i concave. Petals elliptical, clawed, 4 as long as calyx. Stamens about 
al = long as the calyx, on a short torus. Ovary cylindrical ; stigma de- 
TX. BOSCIA, Lam. 
Sepals 4, concave, deciduous, valvate in wstivation, Petals none. 
Stamens 12-20, on a scarcely elevated torus ; filaments monadelphous - 
