PLATE 37d. 
Capparis oorymbifera, E. Mey. (Fl. Cap. Vol. I., p. 62.) 
Natural Order, Capparide^. 
A spiny rambling shrub with white flowers. Stems and branches terete, 
green, pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, oblong to ovate-oblong, 
quite entire, obtuse at base and apex, mid- vein prominent beneath ; glabrous, dark 
green and shining above, paler and dull beneath, 2 to 3 inches long, 1 to 1^ inch 
wide. Stipules spiny from a broad base, stron'.'ly recurved, pungent. Inflores- 
cence corymbose, terminal ; flowers white; pedicels up to ]-| inch long. Sepals 
4, strongly concave, ovate-oblong, densely rusty tomentose externally, imbricate 
in aestivation ; 4 to 5 lines long. Petals 4, inserted on a hemispherical torus, 
imbricate, broadly spathulate or obovate, thickened and densely pilose at base with 
white hairs, pubescent upwards, light green; 1 inch long, 8 to 9 lines wide in 
upper portion. Stamens numerous, inserted with petals on the torus, filaments 
filiform, white; 1^ to If inch long; anthers 2-cellecl, dorsifixed. Ovary stipitate, 
the stipe (thecapliore) a little longer than the stamens, light pink. Ovary subglo- 
bose, but a b.ttle elongate at the apex; ovules numerous, on two opposite parietal 
placentas. Berry globose, many seeded, the seeds lying in pulp ; at maturity 
compressed, or subreniform, curved. 
Habitat: Natal: Drege ; Krauss ; Oueinzius ; Verulam, 200 feet alt, Septem- 
ber, Wood, 651 ; Berea, 150 feet alt, Wood, February and July. 
One species of this genus has already been figured and described in this 
work (Vol III., p. 214), the species now figured is confined to the coast districts 
and is of more robust growth than any other Natal species. The flowers in this 
description are said to be white, and that is their general appearance, in reality 
the filaments alone are white, but on account of their number and prominence 
they are the most conspicuous part of the flower. The plant is not in Natal used 
in any way, and is known to the natives as i-Quaningi. 
Fig l,a stamen; 2, thecaphore and ovary; 3, longitudinal section of ovary ; 
4, fruit; except fig. 4, all enlarged ; fig. 4. natural size. 
