$0 IX. CAPPARIDACE^ (oliyer). [Cadaha. 



rotundate, compressed. — Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 8 (drawn with 6 stamens). Stroe- 

 mia farinosa^ Vahl, Symb. i. 20. Cadaba dubia, DC. Prod. i. 244. Strehlo- 

 carpus Fenzlii, Pari, in Webb, Frag. PI. ^thiop. 24. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot ! Perrottet ! 

 North Central. Bornou, Oudney ; Kouka, E. Vogel I 



Nile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant ! Abyssiuia, Schimper ! and others ; Sennar 

 and Kordofan, Kotschy ! near Khartoum, Heuglin. 

 Extends through Arabia to N.W. India. 



4. C. lon^folia, DC. Prod. i. 244. A glabrous shrub or the extremi- 

 ties minutely mealy. Leaves rather coriaceous, linear oblong or lanceolate 

 or elongate-oval, rather obtuse or subacute, often mucronulate, veiny when 

 dry, usually from 1-2|- in. long, 3-6 lines broad ; petiole 2-3 lines. Flowers 

 in short terminal corymbs ; bracts reduced to minute scales. Petals narrow- 

 oval or lanceolate, with long claws, rather exceeding the sepals. Appendix 

 linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, about as long as the sepals, open on the 

 side towards the gynophore. Stamens 4 ; filaments adnate, halfway up the 

 gynophore or higher. Ovary minutely glandular, 2-locular, at least partially. 

 — Eich. Fl. Abyss. Ic. 5. Siroemia longifolia, Br. in Salt's Abyss. App. 



Nile Zjand. Abyssinia, Salt ! Petit (ex JRich.J, Plowden 1 

 Also at Aden. 



5. C. Kirkii, Oliv. Extremities of the branches shortly glandular- 

 pilose, puberulous or glabrate below. Leaves rather coriaceous, elliptical 

 ovate- or obovate-elliptical, obtuse, usually mucronate, minutely hispid- 

 scabrid, at length nearly glabrous, usually from 1-2 in. lono^, \-\\ in. broad, 

 on petioles of 3-5 lines. Flowers numerous, in rather dense terminal ra- 

 cemes or sometimes corymbose. Bracts linear-subulate. Pedicels densely 

 glandular-pilose. Petals linear-oval on long elaws, exceeding the sepals. 

 Appendix tubular-infundibuliform, shorter than the sepals. Stamens 5, 

 adnate nearly half the length of the gynophore. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 

 multiovulate placentas. 



Mosamb. Distr. Lake Nyassa and Shire valley, Dr. Kirk ! 



7. EUADENIA, Oliv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 969. 



Sepals 4, open in aestivation. Petals 4, linear-spathulate, lanceolate, 

 plane (or ovate-lanceolate, undulate and crisped), narrowed below into a 

 long claw, 2 very much larger. Stamens 5-7 ; filaments fiee or very shortly 

 connate around the base of the gynophore (or adnate to above its middle) ; 

 anthers linear-oblong. Staminodia 0-2. Appendix at the base of the 

 gynophore narrow-linear, plane or channelled, terminating in about 5 minute, 

 spherical knobs (or divided above into as many narrow segments, each bear- 

 ing a small oblong appendage). Ovary linear-oval or (ovoid) glabrous, (1- 

 celled or) 2-celled, with a spurious dissepiment ; ovules indefinite, parietal ; 

 gynophore equalling the appendix (or many times longer). Stigma sessile, 

 truncate, emarginate or subpeltate, depressed in the centre. (Fruit only seen 

 in E. ? Kirkiiy in which it is nearly globose and about 4 in. diam. above, 

 and abruptly narrowed into the subcylindrical lower half. Seeds rather large. 



