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Order VII. CAPPARIDACEjE. Gen. PI. i. 103. 



(Capparidece.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple or 3-9 foliolate, 

 stipules mostly spiuescent, in some genera wanting. Fl. usually bisexual, 

 often zygomorphic. Sepals 4, free or connate, petals 4, sometimes 2 or none, 

 imbricate or open in bud. Stamens exserted, generally numerous. Ovary 1, 

 consisting of 2 or more carpels, generally 1-celled, as a rule raised on an 

 elongated gynophore, ovules ao on 2 or more parietal placentas. Seeds with- 

 out albumen, einbryo incurved. 



Remarkable anatomical characters. — In species of Maerua, Cadaba, and Boydsia the 



w I is interrupted by concentric bauds of bast (phloem). 



( !a I yx tube lined by the disk. 



Leaves 3-5 foliolate, petals 0, fruit ovoid 



Leaves simple, petals 4, fruit moniliform 



Leaves simple, petals 0, fruit globose . 

 Sepals 4, open in bud, leaves 3-foliolate 

 Sepals 4, imbricate or outer valvate, leaves simple. 



Stamens 4-6, inserted high up on the gynophore . 4. Cadaba. 



Stamens imnnTniH. inserted at the has.- ..f gynophore .">. Cai-pakis. 

 Sepals 6, ovary 3-celled 6. Roydsia. 



1. Niebtjhkia. 



2. Maebi a. 

 Bosc iv p. 32 - 



3. Ckat.uva. 



1. NIEBUHRIA, DC; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 171. 

 Species about 8, most in South Africa. 



N. linearis, DC. : Wight Ic. t. 174. — Svn. Mai ran Urn arts, Pax in Eut?ler 

 u. Prantl, iii. 2. 234. 



A small tree with pale grey bark and 3-5 foliolate leaves, leaflets lanceolate, 

 1-3 in. long, midrib distinct, second, nerves scarcely visible. Racemes 

 terminal, few fid. Calyx 

 tulie ovoid, limb 4-clefr, 

 valvate, petals 0. Stamens 

 oo inserted on the gyno- 

 phore considerably above 

 its base. Ovules numerous 

 on 2 parietal placentas. 

 Berry ovoid, 1 -seeded, 

 cotyledons fleshy, involute. 



II ills on t he ens) sideof i he 



Western Peninsula. 



2. MAERUA.Porstahl 



Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 171. 



Species al>"iit 2", some 

 in Arabia, most in tropica] 

 Africa. 



M. arenaria, Book, 

 fil. & Thorns. : Trimm 

 Ceylon i. 58. Svn. .1/. 

 nriii 'if ni 'iii. < lamb. : I looke, 

 Fl. Bomb. i. 41. Vern. 

 \'7l,n, Guzerat. 



A large w Iv climlier, 



bark light grey, leaves 



Km. K!.— Ma-'i-ini ar.-nai i.i. IL-.k. til. & Thon 



