VII. CRUCIFER2. 5 La) 
Endemic. A glabrous, erect herb, with remote, linear-filiform leaves. 
Flowers unknown. Fruiting racemes long ; ripe pods 7-8 lines long and 
wide, rounded at top, with a very short style; valves flattish, nerveless. 
—This plant was found by Thunberg, about 1772, on the Onderste Rogge- 
veld; no more recent collector has met with it ! 
Orvek VIII. CAPPARIDE. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 4. Petals 4-8 or more, clawed, 
often unequal, sometimes none. Stamens 4, 6, or many, not 
tetradynamous. Ovary 1-locular, with 2 parietal placente. 
Fruit a dry capsule or fleshy berry. Seeds without albumen ; 
embryo curved or spirally rolled.—Trees shrubs or herbs, 
with alternate simple or compound leaves. Pubescence often 
glandular and fetid. 
Tribe 1. CrzomE®. Fruit a dry, dehiscent, pod-like capsule. Annual or 
perennial herbs ; leaves simple or compound. (Gen. 1-2.) 
Torus small, depressed or inconspicuous. . . . . 1. CLEOME. 
Torus tapering into a stalk-like gynophore. . . . 2. G@YNANDROPSIS. 
Tribe 2, CappaRE®. Fruit a fleshy, indehiscent berry. Shrubs or 
trees. (Gen. 3-6.) 
Calyx-tube obconical,- persistent ; limb.of 4 deci- 
duous valvate lobes ; torus elongate, filiform. 
Berry ovoid, 1-celled, few- or many-seeded. . . 3. NIEBUHRIA. 
Berry cylindrical, torulose, transversely many- 
celled, each cell l-seeded . . . . . 
Calyx of 4: deciduous separate sepals, not united into 
a tube at base. 
Torus long, slender, filiform. Stamens4-8 . . 5. CADABA. 
Torus short, hemispherical. Stamensfew or many 6. CAPPaRIS. 
4. Mmrva. 
TrrBE 1. Creomem. (Gen. 1-2.) 
1. CLEOME, Linn. 
Calyx 4-toothed or 4-parted, persistent or deciduous. Pe- 
tals equal or unequal, sessile or clawed, entire ; convolute 
imbricate or open in the bud. Torus short or depressed, 
sometimes produced behind into a process or gland. Stamens 
4-6-8 or more, either all perfect or some sterile, very generally 
unequal and declinate, the filaments often thickened under the 
apex. Ovary sessile or stipitate ; ovules many ; style none or 
elongate. Capsule mostly elongate, sometimes inflated, 1- 
celled, with thin valves.—/7. Cap. i. p. 55. Also Polanisia, 
Rafin. Fl. Cap.i.p.56. Dianthera, Kl. ; Fl. Cap.i. p. 57 ; Thes. 
Cap. t. 1386. Tetratelia, Sond. ; Fl. Cap. i. p. 58. 
A large tropical and subtropical genus of herbs or half-shrubs, mostly 
strongly scented. Leaves simple or compound. The following subgenera 
are represented in the South African flora :— 
1. EvcLEOME. Stamens 6, fertile. (2 species.) 
