FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Flowers in short terminal racemes, or terminating; short lateral 
branches. Bracts reduced to minute scales or obsolete, except the lowest, 
which is sometimes leafy. Petals A, linear or narrow-oval, clawed, 
exceeding or equalling the sepals.. Appendix tubular, obliquely open, and 
often toothed at the extremity, shorter than, or nearly equalling the 
sepals. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments adnate way up the gynophore. 
Ovary cylindrical, 1-locular, with 2 placentas. Stigma sessile. 
Fruit patent, subterete or slightly torulose, 1-2 inches long, on a 
gynophore of inch or rather more. Seeds reniform-rotundate, com- 
pressed. 
Mowers and fruits in Yemen from December to January 
(Schweinf .) . 
Locality : — Locality not named (Hildebrandt according to Krause). 
This species is not represented in Birdwood's herbarium and 
Hildebrandt seems to be the only one who saw this plant in Aden. 
Distribution /—Central and S. Arabia, Nubia, Abyssinia, Kordofan, 
highlands of Somaliland, Usambara, Kilimandjaro, Senegambia. 
5. Capparis L. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing or sometimes prostrate, unarmed or 
with short, often recurved, stipular spines. Leaves simple, coriaceous or 
submembranous, rarely wanting. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, solitary, racemose, corymbose or 
umbellate, axillary or terminal. Sepals usually 4, free or connate at the 
base, biseriate, imbricate, or the two exterior subvaivate. Petals 4, 
imbricate. Torus short. Stamens usually indefinite, inserted upon the 
torus at the base of the long gynophore. Ovary stalked, 1-4-eelled ; 
ovules many, on 2-6 parietal placentas ; stigma sessile. 
Berry stalked, globose or cylindric, often elongate, rarely dehiscent. 
Seeds many, embedded in pulp ; testa crustaceous or coriaceous ; embryo 
convolute. 
Species about 150. 
Distribution : — In both tropics and in the warmer regions of the Old 
and New World. 
Leaves ovate to rotundate 5 anterior sepal galeate . . 1 . C. galeata. 
Leafless, at least the flowering branches ; anterior sepal saccate . 2. C. decidua. 
1. Capparis galeata Fresen. Mus. Senckenb. II, 111 ; Anders. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 5; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. p. 67 ; 
Boiss. FI. Or. I, 421 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 96. 
