72 MR. N. A. DALZELL ON CAPPARIS GALEATA 
spective fruits, because the vegetative system will always furnish 
sufficient characters. 
1. Fapronta ScHImPERI, De N. Planta vulgo paullum major, de- 
mum luteola, magis plumulosa; folia majora et longiora, lanceolata, 
ciliato-laciniata, laciniis sæpe ciliatis vel grosse serratis, minus Con- 
cava, nervo distinctiore ; cellulis alaribus copiosioribus, ceteris multo 
majoribus et longioribus, elongato-rhombeis, valde incrassatis, vulgo 
inanibus. 
Fabronia Schimperi, De N. Epil. Briol. Ital. pp. 226 et 228 (1869). 
Delin. Br. Eur. Monogr. t. 1 (excl. fig. 6, ad F. octoblepharim perti- 
nente). 
2. FABRONIA PUSILLA(Radd.), DeN. Plantavulgo paullum minor, sem- 
per viridis, minus plumulosa; folia minora et breviora, ovato-ovalia, 
infra apicem lacinulis duabus fere oppositis, ceterum ciliato-serrata 
vel solum serrata, magis concava, nervo minus distincto; cellulis 
alaribus paucioribus, ceteris minoribus brevioribus, rhombeis vel qua- 
drato-rhombeis, vix incrassatis, semper chlorophyllo farctis. 
Fabronia pusilla, Radd., De N. Epil. Briol. Ital. pp. 226 et 227 
(1869). 
Delin. Schweegr. Suppl. t. 99. 
Note on Capparis galeata (Fresen.) and C. Murrayii, J. Graham. 
By N. A. DarzÉFLL, Esq. (Communicated by Dr. Hooxee, 
VEES.) 
[Read March 16, 1871.] 
TuE late Dr. Anderson, in his ‘Florula Adenensis,’ has united 
these two species. Having gathered both in their native lo- 
calities, I am enabled to say that, in general appearance, no two 
species of a genus could be more unlike. C. Murrayii is a very 
small straggling shrub, with small, thin, delicate leaves, pubes- 
cent, particularly when young, and found growing in the climate 
of Bombay, with from 100 to 300 inches of rain in the year ; and 
it seems, at first sight, very improbable that the same species, ' 
growing in a perfectly arid climate like that of Sind and Arabia, 
should then present the appearance of a luxuriant bushy shrub, 
3 feet and more in height, that the leaves should increase to 
four times the size, become thick and fleshy, and should, ¿2 the 
desert, lose every trace of pubestence. Such changes are the 
reverse of what we are led to expect in any single species groW- 
ing naturally in two such opposite climates. 
