18 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
CRUCIFERÆ. 
Cardamine hirsuta, Zinn., var. sylvatica, Link (species); FI. 
Brit. Ind. i. p. 188.—Shan hills plateau, 4000 feet. 
Generally dispersed in temperate regions. 
CAPPARIDACER. 
Crateva lophosperma, Kurz; Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 195.—Shan 
hills. 
Described from specimens collected in Assam. 
Boscia variabilis, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. (Plate T.) 
Arbor 15-20-pedalis, tortuoso-ramosus, novellis puberulis. 
Folia simplicia, breviter petiolata, coriacea, anguste oblonga, 
1-23 poll. longa, apice rotundato- vel truncato-emarginata, basi 
cuneata, venis immersis inconspicuis. Flores circiter 6 lineas 
longi, in axillis foliorum superiorum densiuscule subcorymbosi, 
corymbis quam folia brevioribus; sepala 3-5, valvata, basi in 
tubum brevem sed distinctum connata, subcarnosa, lanceolato- 
oblonga, dorso longitudinaliter 1-costata; petala nulla; discus 
Crassus, carnosus, cupulatus, tubum calycis vestiens; stamina 
5-6, medio gynophori inserta, pistillum subæquantia; ova- 
rium glabrum, longiuscule stipitatum, l-loculare, placentis 2 
circiter 5-ovuliferis. Fructus (immaturus tantum visus) globosus, 
pisiformis.—Capparis variabilis, Wall. Cat. n. 7004; Niebuhria 
variabilis, Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma, i. p. 59. 
Common iu the open forest-tracts about Meiktila. 
Upper Burma. : 
This somewhat anomalous plant has been referred to both 
Capparis aud Niebuhria, though neither Wallich nor Kurz's 
specimens bear either flowers or fruit. Some of the leaves of 
Wallich’s specimens are as much as 4 inches long. 
The definite stamens, inserted high up on the gynophore, and 
definite ovules bring it intermediate between Mærua and Boscia, 
and in habit and facies it strongly resembles several species of the 
latter genus ; but these genera are not well defined. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE T. 
A branch of Boscia variabilis, Coll. et Hemsl., natural size. 
Fig. 1, a leaf from a sterile branch, natural size; 2, a flower; and 3, vertical 
section of ovary. Enlarged. 
