2B4 



SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 



opening by two slits (as nearly all anthers do). Ovary 

 stalked, one-celled, ovoid in shape ; stigma sessile, 

 (no style) ovules many on two parietal placentas. Fruit 

 a berry, black, about I inch in diameter. Seeds 

 kidney-shaped, embryo with cotyledons rolled up inside. 

 Other common species of this genus are C. ZEYLA- 

 NICA, a stiff much branched shrub, more or less 

 glabrous, armed with stipular thorns, leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, reticulate (i.e. with prominent 



FIG. 69 



CAPPARIS HORRIDA, L. 



