12. CAPPABIDE^E. 51 



Journ. Bot. i. 1819, p. 211 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 18 ; Hance in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 e serie, v. p. 206. 



Kwangtung: "Whampoa {Ranee); Hongkong (Champion I 

 Wright ! JJrquhart ! Hance ! Lamont !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



3. Capparis pumila, Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 

 p. 260; Walp. Ann. iv. p. 225 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 18 ; Hook./. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 177. 



Capparis sciaphila, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5* serie, v. p. 206, et in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 100. 



South China, without locality (Millet ! Beechey !) ; Kwang- 

 tung (Ford !) ; Hongkong (Hance ! Wilfordl Lamont !). Mus. 

 Brit.; Herb. Kew. 



Sikkim ; Khasia. 



4. Capparis sepiaria, Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. 2, p. 720 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 247 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 177, var. incanescens. 



Kwangtung : Pakhoi (Play/air, 237 !) ; Hainan (Hancock !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Throughout India and in the Philippines. 



5. Capparis Swinhoii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 296. 

 Capparis hastigera, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 296, et 18/9, p. 8. 

 Kwangtung : Paksha (Hance, hb. 13732), Pakhoi (Playfair, 



138 !) ; Hainan (Stoinhoe ! Hancock !). Herb. Kew. 



[Capparis cantoniensis, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 331 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 253), is an altogether doubtful plant.] 



1. Crataeva religiosa, Forst. Fl. Ins. Aust. Prodr. p. 203 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 243 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 172. 



Kwangtung : Pakhoi (Play/air, 137 !) ; Hainan (Hancock !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



India and tropical Africa ; often cultivated. 



Crataeva falcata and C. magna, DC. Prodr. i. p. 243, syn. 

 Capparis falcata, Lour., and C. magna, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 331, 

 are probably forms of C. religiosa. Hance (Journ. Bot. 1869, 

 p. 41) identifies C. magna with C. Nurvala, Ham.), which is treated 

 as a variety of C. religiosa in the ' Flora of British India.' 



13. KESEDACE.E. 



Beseda odorata, Linn., is recorded by Loureiro as an introduced 

 plant about Canton, and he describes a Reseda chinensis (Fl. 



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