VII. CKUCIFER^. 11 



Endemic. A glabrous, erect herb, with remote, linear-fihform 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 Eogge- 

 veld : no more recent collector has met with it ! 



Oeder VIII. CAPPAEIDEiE. 



Elowers bisexual. Sepals 4. Petals 4-8 or more, clawed, 

 often unequal, sometimes none. Stamens 4, 0, or many, not 

 tetradynamous. Ovary 1-locular, with 2 parietal placenta. 

 Truit 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. Cleome^. Fruit a dry, dehiscent, pod-like capsule. Annual or 

 perennial herbs ; leaves simple or compound. (Gren. 1-2.) 



Torus small, depressed or inconspicuous 1. Cleome. 



Torus tapering into a stalk-like gynophore .... 2. Gynandeopsis. 



Tribe 2. Cappaee^. Fruit a fleshy, indeliiscent berry. Shrubs or 

 trees. (Gen. 3-6.) 

 Calyx -tube obconical, persistent ; limb of 4 deci- 

 duous valvate lobes ; torus elongate, filiform. 

 Berry ovoid, l-celled, few- or many-seeded ... 3. Niebuheia. 

 Berry cylindrical, torulose, transversely many- 

 celled, each cell l-seeded 4. M^etia. 



Calyx of 4 deciduous separate sepals, not united into 

 a tube at base. 

 Torus long, slender, filiform. Stamens 4-8 . . 5. Cadaba, 

 Torus short, hemispherical. Stamens few or many 6. Cappaeis. 



Tribe 1. Cleomeje. (G-en. 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.— -i^/. Cap. i. p. 55. Also Polanisia, 

 Bojin. Fl. Cap. i.p. 56. Dianthera, Kl. ; Fl. Caii. i. p. 57 ; Tlies. 

 Cap. t. 136. 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. Eucleome. Stamens 6, fertile. (2 species.) 



