Cadaba^ ix. capparidacej: (oliver). 89 



Glabrous. Leaves rotundate, 1-1 ^ in \. C. rotundifoha. 



Glandular-pilose or hispid. Leaves rotundate, \~\ in 2. C. glandiilosa. 



Petals present, clawed. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate \-\ length of gyno- 



phore. 

 Mealy-puberulous at first. Leaves oblong, obtuse, often small. 



Appendix tubular. Stamens 4-5 3. C.farinosa. 



Glabrous or extremities minutely mealy. Leaves linear-oblong or 



lanceolate. Stamens 4 4. C. longifolia. 



Extremities glandular-pilose. Leaves elliptical, scabrid or glabrate. 



Appendix tubular-infundibuliform, short. Stamens 5 . . . . 5. C Kirkii. 



1. C. rotundifolia^ Forsk. ; DC. Prod. i. 244. Extremities minutely 

 piibcrulous. Leaves coriaceous, orbicular or rotundate, glabrous, with 1 or 

 2 pairs of the principal lateral veins from near the base; 1-1^ in. diam. on 

 petioles of about j-f in. Flowers in terminal racemes. Bracts subulate or 

 obsolete. Petals 0. Appendix about f in. long, ligulate, lamina elliptical, 

 obtuse, folded back over its claw in bud. Stamens 5 ; filaments adnate 1-2 

 lines with the gynophore, which is at length ^-f in. long. Ovary 1-celled, 

 placentas 2. Fruit linear, dehiscing in 2 valves, about Ij in. long. Seeds 

 reniform. — Straemia rotundifolia, Vahl, Symb. i. 19, 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Salt ! Roth ! Schimper^ and others ; Nubia, Bromfield ! 

 "Used as a drastic purgative in helminthiasis." — Roth. 



2. C. glandulosa^ Forsk. / BC. Prod. i. 244. A much-branched shrub, 

 glandular-pilose with short, spreading, viscid hairs. Leaves orbicular, ob- 

 ovate or broadly elliptical, with or without a mucro, more or less shortly 

 glandular-hispid or sometimes scabrid, usually 3-6 lines in diam., rarely 

 twice as large. Racemes few-flowered, terminating the branches and lateral 

 shoots. Petals 0. Appendix |-1 in. long, ligulate, the lamina petaloid, 

 oblong obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 5, very shortly adnate to the base of 

 the gynophore. Ovary 2-celled, owing to the cohesion of the placentary 

 plates. Fruit oblong-ellipsoidal, i in. long or rather less, on a gynophore of 

 ^— f- in. — Stroeinia glandulusa, Vahl, Symb. i. 20. 



PTile Ijand. Nubia, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, ^oM / Schimper {ex Rich.); Kordofan, Cien- 

 koicski ; Soturba, Nubia, Schweinfurth ! 



Also Arabian. A slightly scabrid or nearly glabrous variety occurs at Aden. 



3. C. farinosa, Forsk. ; BC. Prod. i. 244. A shrub or occasionally arbo- 

 rescent, often densely branched, the extremities terete, and more or less 

 hoary-mealy. Leaves coriaceous in the desert forms, oblong oval -oblong or 

 varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate or rarely 

 somewhat mucronulateand acute, pale glaucous-green or whitish and mealy at 

 first, at length glabrate, ^-2 in. long, -^-1 in. broad, in desert forms some- 

 times very small and fascicled ; petiole about 1 line, rarely 3-4 lines. 

 Flowers in short terminal racemes, or terminating short lateral branches. 

 Bracts reduced to minute scales or obsolete, except the lowest, which is some- 

 times leafy. Petals 4, linear or narrow-oval clawed, exceeding or equalling 

 the sepals. Appendix tubular, obliquely open, and often toothed at the 

 extremity, shorter than or nearly equalling the sepals. Stamens 4-5 ; fila- 

 ments adnate \-\ way up the gynophore. Ovary cylindrical, 1-locular, with 

 2 placentas. Stigma sessile. Fruit patent, subterete or slightly torulose, 

 1-2 in. long, on a gynophore of ^-f in. or rather more. Seeds reniform- 



