Capparis.| — RESEDACE& (Harv.) 63 
the pedicel. DC. 1. c. C. coriacea, Burch. Cat. 2898. DC. tc. Bartl. & 
Wendl. 2. p. 33. EH. & Z. 110, 111. 
Has. Among shrubs, from Uitenhage to Caffraria, Oct. Burchell, BE. & Z., Drege. 
(Herb. Sond., £ Lehm., T.C.D.) 
A glabrous shrub ; branches pale. Leaves erect, very entire, one-nerved, veinless, 
1-2 inches long, 4-6 lines wide ; petiole 2 lines long, furrowed. Flowers 6-10, race- 
moso-subcorymbose, 4-3 shorter than the leaf ; pedicels 1 flowered, without bracts. 
Buds minute. Sepals ovate ; reflexed ; petals shorter, glabrous ; stamens as long 
as sepals, Berry globose, as large as a small cherry ; thecaphore 1 line long. 
7. C. albitrunca (Burch. Tray. 1. p. 343) ; unarmed, with spreading 
branches ; leaves oblong, obtuse or emarginate, attenuate at base, leathery, 
glabrous, glaucous below ; racemes axillary, few flowered, shorter than 
the leaves ; thecaphore as long asthe pedicel. DO. l.c. p 248. Pappe, 
Sylv. Cap. p. 3. 
Has. At Gattikamma, at Sondag river, and in other parts of the Eastern dis- 
tricts. Oct.-_Nov. Burchell, Pappe. (Not known to us.) 
A tree 10-12 feet high, robust, with a white trunk. Flowers minute. Racemes 
sometimes springing from naked branches, Seemingly but little different from the 
preceding. 
8. C. punctata (Burch. Trav. 1. p. 492) ; unarmed ; leaves oblong, 
sub-attenuate at base, submucronate, glabrous, with netted veins; racemes 
axillary, much shorter than the leaves. DO. 1. c. p. 248. 
Has, Klaarwater, Dec. Burchell. (Unknown to us.) 
A shrub, 4-6 feet high, with spreading branches, Leaves narrow-lanceolate, very 
obtuse. Racemules very short, solitary, or in pairs, axillary. Fruit globose, 
smooth, netted and punctate. Scarcely of this genus : can it be our Boscia caffra ? 
9. C. Zeyheri (Turez. Animadv. p. 54) ; stipules spiny, hooked ; twigs 
downy ; leaves ovate or oblongo-lanceolate, tapering to each end, obtusely 
acuminate, tipped with a hard point, undulate at the margin, glabrous 
on the upper, covered with deciduous down on the lower surface ; ra- 
cemes axillary, shorter or longer than the leaf. 
Has. In the woods of Krakakamma, Feb., Zeyher (1915). Port Natal, 7. Wil- 
liamson, Sanderson, Drege 8505. (Herb. Hook., Sond,, T.O.D.) : 
Stem climbing ; branches terete, green, smooth ; twigs slender, : 
young ones often rufescent. Leaves spreading, the lower 3 inches long, an inch 
wide ; upper 2-24 inches long, 5-6 lines wide or wider, venulose ; the petioles 3-6 
lines long, channelled above. Racemes axillary, often Jong and leafless, simple or 
paniculately branched. Buds globose, downy. Sepals 1 line long ; glabrous, 
of equal length. Ovary ovate, acute. os Mn ap ing as a pea ; the- 
caphore as long or a little longer than the ad 
Orper IX. RESEDACEZ, DC. 
(By W. H. Hanver.) 
(Resedacew, DC. Theor. 1. p. 214. Endl. Gen, No. clxxxiii, Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd. No. cxxiv.) | : 
Sepals several (4-7), persistent. Petals irregular (2-7), entire or 
lacerated. Disc expanded, fleshy, unilateral. Stamens 3-40, inserted 
within the margin of the disc, free ; anthers erect, two celled, opening 
longitudinally. Ovary, sessile or nearly so, one-celled, open at the 
