62 CAPPARIDE (Sond.) [Capparis. 
** Pedicels in a corymb or raceme ; flowers polyandrous. (Sp. 2-4.) 
2. C, citrifolia (Lam. Dict. 1. p. 606); twigs downy or glabrous ; 
stipules spiny, hooked ; leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, mucronulate ; ~ 
thinly downy ; pedicels terminal, umbellate ; buds glabrous, petals. 
ovate-oblong. C. capensis, Thunb. Cap. p. 430. Bartl. & Wendl. Beytr. 
2p. 3t. H. & Z. En 109. 
Var. @. sylvatica; branches and leaves glabrous ; leaves oval or 
obovate, obtuse, emarginate, 
Has. In woods, Eastern Districts. Camtoos river, Thunberg, Uitenhage, Nov.- 
Apl. £.¢ 2. /, Drege, Krauss, §c. (Herb. Thunb., Lam., Sond., T.C.D.) 
A shrub, 4 or more feet high, with rigid, spiny branches, and leafy twigs. Leaves 
alternate, on short petioles, very entire, with recurved margins, obtuse or retuse, 
with or without mucron, paler below, 1-14 inches long, 6-10 lines wide. Flowers 
4-10, subumbellate ; peduncles filiform, pubescent, inch long. Calyx 2} lines long, 
concave, obtuse. Petals 4, subciliate, villous at base and within, 3 lines long. - 
Stamens numerous, twice as long as the petals. Ovary ovate, acute, glabrous ; 
thecaphore as long as the pedicel. Berry spherical, apiculate, glabrous,‘as large as 
a small cherry, one seeded. Cap. Drege 7534, scarcely differs from the normal state 
of C. citrifolia. 
3. C. corymbifera (E. Mey. in Herb. Drege) ; branches thinly tomen- 
tose ; stipules spinous, subrecurved ; leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, glabrous 
or subtomentose below; pedicels terminal, corymbose ; buds tomentose ; 
petals as long as the calyx. C. hypericoides, Hochst. Fl. 1844. 
r oD) In primitive woods, Natal. June. Drege, Krauss, Gueinzius. (Herb. Sond., 
“More robust than the preceding, with larger leaves (2-3 inches long, 14-16 lines 
wide), thicker peduncles, buds twice as large and Riccio stamens 14 inches 
gear globose (not acute) ovary. Thecaphore more slender and longer than 
e 3 
4. C. Gueinzii (Sond.) ; twigs downy ; stipules spiny, incurved ; 
leaves petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse at each end, minutely emar- 
ginate, glabrous, the midrib downy ; racemes axillary, as long as the 
leaves or little shorter ; flowers polyandrous. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius. (Herb. Sond.) 
Branches slender, flexuous, terete. Leaves 2 inches long, 4 inch wide, one 
nerved, with inconspicuous veins ; petiole 2-3 lines long. Racemes spreading, axil- 
lary ; uppermost leafless, paniculate ; rachis downy, upper pedicels corymbose, 3-4 
lines long. Flowers yellow : sepals ovate, obtuse, 2 lines long ; petals as long, sta- 
mens, about 30. Resembes C. Zeyheri, Turcz, from which it differs in the non-atten- 
uate leaves, larger flowers and more numerous stamens. 
* Pedicels acillary, mostly many flowered ; stamens eight. (Sp. 5-9-) 
5. C. cluytisfolia (Burch, Cat. 3881) ; unarmed ; leaves oblong-cu- 
neate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous ; pedicels axillary, solitary, one 
flowered, half as long as the leaf. DC. e p. 248. : 
Han. South Africa, Burchell. (Unknown to us). 
6. C. oleoides (Burch. Cat. 4200) ; unarmed ; leaves coriaceous, ob-_ 
long, or linear-oblong, narrowed at. base, retuse, mucronate, glabrous ; 
racemes axillary, rather shorter than the leaf ; thecaphore shorter than 
