20 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
brevibus terminantibus, pedicellis glaberrimis filiformibus vel 
capillaribus 4-6 lineas longis sepalisque rufis ; sepala orbicularia, 
coneava, margine tenui pellucido ; petala angusta, quam sepala vix 
longiora; stamina circiter 12-15; ovarium 1-loculare, circiter 
8-ovulatum, cum gynophoro stamina vix æquans. 
Var. angustifolia, Coll. et Hemsl. ; ramulis lateralibus floriferis 
majus evolutis, foliis fere linearibus usque ad bipollicares. 
Collected in the same locality as the typical form with obovate 
leaves less than an inch in length. 
Capparis hastigera, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 296, et 1879, 
p. 8; Forbes et Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. p. 51.—Cap- 
paris Swinhoii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 296.—Meiktila. 
A common bush on the dry plains. 
South China. 
This singular species was collected by Griffith at Male, on the 
Irrawaddy; and is the “Capparidea” mentioned by him in his 
* Journals of Travels,’ i. p. 103 ; and Wallich collected it at Prome. 
It is the 6982 B of his catalogue. The flowering specimens now 
collected enable us to identify all these specimens with the Chinese 
species established by Hance. This species is exceedingly variable 
in the shape of the leaves, the hastate base sometimes disappear- 
ing altogether. Our specimens have very narrow leaves, reaching 
4 inches in length. 
Capparis xanthophylla, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Frutex ramulis ultimis graciliusculis primum ferrugineo-furfu- 
raceis demum glabrescentibus, aculeis brevissimis rigidis recurvis 
parce armatis. Folia distincte petiolata, rigide coriacea, crassa, 
siccitate flava, ovato-lanceolata, absque petiolo 3 poll. longa, sub- 
obtusa, basi cuneata, utrinque glaberrima, supra nitida, subtus 
pallidiora, opaea, costa supra impressa, subtus crassa, elevata, 
venis primariis lateralibus utrinque circiter 4 prominentibus et 
inter se anastomosantibus ; petiolus semipollicaris, teres, crassus, 
rugulosus. Flores 12-15 lineas diametro, ferrugineo-furfuracei 
vel tomentosi, breviter pedicellati, secus ramulos laterales 3-12 
poll. longos laxe fasciculati, pedicellis furfuraceis 3-12 lineas 
longis; sepala crassa, ovali-rotundata, cymbiformia, quam petala 
fere dimidio breviora; petala obovato-spathulata ; stamina nume- 
rosissima, ovarium plus quam duplo superantia ; ovarium glabrum, 
1-loculare, placentis 3, multiovulatis. Fructus ignotus. 
Dry plains near Yemethen. 
