96 ix. CAPPABiDACEiE (oliver). [Capparis. 



fuse shrub ; extremities pulverulent. Leaves thick and cartilaginous, ovate 

 to rotundate, tipped with a more or less curved or hooked mucro, 1-3 in. 

 long, |-2 in. broad. Stipules spinose. Flowers solitary, axillary ; peduncles 

 stout, recurved in fruit. Sepals 4, the larger galeate. Petals roundish. 

 Fruit baccate, clavate-pyriform, 3-4 in. long, on a stipes of about l£-2 in. 

 Seeds reniform. 



For synonyms (C. cartilaginea, Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. iii. 273, etc.) sec An- 

 derson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Snppl. i. 5. 



Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ; Nubia, Schweivfurth ! 



Also in Egypt, Arabia, and Western India. 



Very nearly allied to C. tpinosa, as remarked by Dr. Anderson. 



4. C. tomentosa, Lam. ; DC. Prod. i. 246. A pubescent, tomentose 

 or sometimes glabrous shrub ; the branches usually armed with recurved, 

 stipular spines. Leaves elliptical or ovate-elliptical or ovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, pubescent or glabrous or pubescent-scabrid above, 1-3 in. long, 

 |-1^ in. broad ; petioles 2-5 lines. Flowers either axillary and solitary or 

 collected into terminal corymbs or racemes, the lower usually in the axils ot 

 leaves, the upper with linear bracts. Sepals subequal, rotundate, concave, 

 more or less tomentose externally, sometimes glabrescent. Petals exceeding 

 the sepals. Stamens indefinite. Ovary ovoid, usually glabrous, very shortly 

 or scarcely pointed ; stigma sessile or subsessile, much narrower than the 

 ovary ; gynophore 1-1^ in. long. Fruit not seen. — C. puberula, DC. Prod. 

 i. 248. C. polytnorpha, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. 24. t. 5. C. persiccefolia, Rich- 

 Fl. Abyss, i. 31. 



Var. a. Leaves pubescent. Flowers axillary. 

 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber 1 Perruttet ! 

 North Central. Kouka, E. Vogel! 



Var. $. Leaves pubescent. Flowers in terminal corymbs, on pedicels of 1-1 i in- (co"' 

 nected by intermediates with var. o. Scarcely distinct from C. grandis, Linn, f., of India)- 

 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Brunner ! 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia (Rick.) ; White Nile, Speke and Grant I 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Welwitsch I 

 South Central. Lake Ngami, M'Cabe I 



Var. 7. Leaves glabrous or glabrescent. Flowers in terminal corymbs. 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others. 



Var. 8. Leaves larger, at length shining above, minutely pubescent beneath. 

 Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann ! This form much resembles the yet 

 more glabrous C. Roxburghii, DC, of India. 



5. C. corymbosa, Lam. ,- DC. 'Prod. i. 247. Shrub. Branches with 

 short, recurved, acute, stipular spines, usually shortly and softly pubescent, at 

 least at first. Leaves ovate ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, emarginate 

 or obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, obtuse rounded or slightly cordate at the 

 base, shortly pubescent or glabrate, £-l£ in. long, 5-9 lines broad ; petiole 

 1-2 lines. Flowers in lateral or terminal, sessile or shortly peduuculate 

 fascicles of 4-6, or one or two lower flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels 

 about I in. Calyx nearly glabrous externally. Sepals elliptical, concave, 

 equal. Petals rather exceeding the sepals, narrowed to the base, pilose below, 

 especially on the inner surface. Ovary ovoid, usually rather oblique, pointed 



