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Port Natal. Gueinzius IN o. 467. 



Rami teretes, glabri, ramulis nnraerosis. Folia aUerna, 

 plerumque trifoliolata, petiolo 4-liueari, petiolulis brevissi- 

 mis, foliolorum iutermedium 1 Yj — 2 poll. long., lineam la- 

 tum, lateralis breviora, omnia glabra, subtus pnllidiora. Pe- 

 duuculi inferiores in axillis foliorum, supremi corynibosi, gla- 

 bri. Calyx 3 lin. longus, sepala 4, glabra, coneaviuscula, 

 basi in tubnm brevem angustata, aestivatione valvata. Petala 

 4, elliptica, breviter stipitata, liueam longa. Tonis stipiti- 

 formis, cylindraceus, brevis. Stamina circ. 16, glabra. Ova- 

 rium cylindricnm , stigmate dcpresso coronatum. 



Boscia Lam. uon Thnnb. 

 1. B. caffra Sond. 



Syn. : Capparis undulata Eekl. et Zeyh. euiim. 



Niebuhria acut! folia E. Meyer in pl. Dregeanis. 

 Niebuhria pedunculosa Höchst, in pl. Krauss. 

 Niebuhria undulata Zeyher in Drege Vergleichg. 

 Frnctns longe pednnculatus, pendnlns, globosns, inagni- 

 tudine pisi majoris, rnfescens, glaber, ininntissime excavato- 

 pnnctatns, indebiscens, nnilocnlaris, 1 — 2-spermus. Semina 

 erustacea, Incida. Embryo subconvolutns, radicnla teretinscnla, 

 obtusa. Cotyledones caruosae, latae, convolutae. 



Variat haec species : foliis oblongo -ovatis vel lanceola- 

 tis, obtnsis vel emarginatis et mucronulatis , acntis aciimina- 

 jisve, 1 — 3 poll. longis, 1 /< i — 1 poll. latis. 



Cadaba Forslc. 

 i, C. natalensis Sond. inermis apetala, foliis petiolatis 

 oblongis vel obovato- oblongis obtnsis emarginalisve mncro- 

 nulatis coriaceis glabris, floribus axillaribus longe petliincn- 

 latis, scpalis 2 cxterioribns concavis, interioribus planis snb- 

 orbiculatis mncronatis , stain. 6 , ucctario lagenifonui collo 



