Plate 252 



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CADABA TERMITARIA, 2T. E. B 



Capparideje. Tribe Cappare.e. 



0. termitaria, N. E. Brown (ap. nov.) ; C. farinose? affinis, differt 

 floribus majoribus apetalis et nectario androphoro adnato. 



Ramorum cortice cinereo, ramuli horizon taliter patentes, ^-2^ poll, 

 longi, dense albido-pulverulenti. Folia petiolata, coriacea,"obovato- 

 oblonsra. obtusa, pulverulenta, 3-7 lin. longa, 1^-3 lin. lata, petiolis 



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1-H 'in. longis. Flores 1-3 ad apices raniulorum dispositi. Pedicelli 

 i^-4 lin. longi. Sepala exteriora compresso-cymbiformia acuta, 6 lin. 

 longa, 2| lin. lata, interiora plana ovata, acuta, 6 lin. longa, 3-3. V lin. 

 lata, omnia viridia pulverulenta. Petala nulla. Stamina 5, fere ad 

 apicem gynophori adnata, filamenta 3|-4 lin. longa. Gynophorum 

 19 lin. longum, curvatum. Nectarinm posticum, 6 lin. longum, 2^-3 lin. 

 latum, androphoro omnino adnatum, ovato-oblongum, valde corupres- 

 sum ore obliquum, basi rotundatuni saccatum. 



South Tropical Africa : Mashonaland, at 4,300 feet, Hartley ; 



Marshall. 



This species somewhat resembles C. fari?wsa, Forsk., in appearance, 

 but. is at once distinguished by the absence of petals and by the large, 

 much compressed nectary, adnate to the androphore, in which character 

 it differs from all the other species of the genus. From C. natalentis, 

 Sond.— figured in Harvey's The$. Cap. i. t. 60— it is distinguished by 

 its larger flowers and much shorter pedicels, as well as by the adnate 

 nectary. Its discoverer, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, notes on his label 

 that it ' grows only on the large ant-heaps made by termites ' and that 

 it is the < food plant of the butterflies Teracolus Wallengrenii, ButL, 

 and T. Topha, Wal/ By an oversight the flowers were drawn in an 

 inverted position. — N. E. Brown. 



Fig. 1, a sepal ; 2, a flower, sepals removed ; 3, anthers. All enlarged. 



