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Ckoi/ie.] XI. CAPPARiDEiE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) IGO 



aromatic. Leaves 1 in, diara., obtuse or acute, base cordate or rounded, margins and 

 long petioles glandular. Flowers small ; racemes elongate in fruit ; bracts usually 

 subsessile, rarely narrow, upper sometimes 0. Capsules I-I4 by J in., sessile, narrow- 



bl t '1 *^^"*^ ^* ^^*^ ^^^^ ' ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ "^ tubcrcled bases, mixed with soft 

 lack glandular hairs. &eds minute, smooth.— Anderson describes 6 stameus, we find 

 only 4. . ' . 



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4 C, Stocksiana, Boiss. FL Orient. 1 414 ; glandular above, leaves 

 o^ate or obovate tuberclod palmately 3-nerved, bracts small or leafy, sta- 

 Diens 6, filaments clavate. Grif. Itin. Notes 225, n. 183. 



Kooky hills in SixDH, >Si^c^.5.— Distkib. Beluchistan. 

 ron ^^T^i^ ^^anches spreading from the base, erect or ascending, white, glabrons, 

 olt . . ' ^^"sely^ glandular and tubercled above. Leaves 1 in., fleshy, acute or 



Se, petiole 1— 11 in. Tilmjifirft amnll rmW r»nrr»1p of Ip-no-th rpllnw * raromea fibort 



broa(lT ^^ gianauiar. i^etals obovate-spathulate, clawed, uaj 

 aa-iinear, subsessile, pendulous, striate. &eeds large, brown hairy. 



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obi 



simplicifolia, //. /. <& T. ; prostrate, strigose, leaves obovate- a 



Wong or laiice(jlate, bracts leafy, stamens 10-12, filaments filiform. Po- 

 b!T J/"^Plicifolia, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. But. 20, t. 20 ; Bahell <k Gibs. 

 /v» • k ^\ P- burtporensis, Mtmro in Wight Ic. t. 1072. C monopbylla, 

 '^^ '^^_ GraJmm Cat. Bomb, rn . 



Ann^P" India, near Burtpore, Munro; drier parts of the Dekkan and Concan. 

 »11 iJ ! f~'^ '"•• ^^^^ branched from the base. Leaves 1-2 in., obt-ise or ^cute, 

 racemp "r",^' '^^^^ ''''t'' scale-like bases. Flowers \ in., violet, in elongating leafr 

 lar-o k ^'^^^^nts filiform. Capsule 1-1 i in., subsessile, torulose ; beak \ in. Seeds 

 '^i^Se, brown, smooth. i ^ a , 



Zea«« compound. Stamens 6. 



lat!" &fl®.°f."*' ^»«''- /•/ DC. Prodr. i. 240; glabrous, leaves 3-folio- 



CJ'RQS^*^^"^'^'^' capsule subsessile glabrous. W. I- A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. 



^•^66; Ohv.Fl. Prop. Afric. i. 78. C. angustifoUa, A. Rich. Ft. Seneg. 20. 



A2^P"*«oftheCARNATic, 5'e»/7ie, &c.— DisTHiB. Trop. Afnca. . , " 



in" thf niV- 1 '°- '' branches many, slender, spreading. Leaflets equalling or exceed- 

 2-folioL .^' ^^o"'ers minute, purplish, in few-flowered racemes ; bracts simple or 

 rather sm^ii ■^■'"^^* \~^^ in.,linear. Seeds minute, smooth.— Indian specimens are 



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ycarpa 



scabprni ^ 3-5-foliolate upper simple, leaflets obovate or oblong, capsule 

 \U^'!'^\T . Ariders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl 4 ; Udij/m. I.e. yu 

 C iXir- ^\Trop. Afric. i. 77. C. Ruta, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bat. 19, 1. 19. 

 jj ^"^ana, l resen. ; and diversifolia, I/ochst. 



-r-hisTiJ^^V"' f™°» Agra, famieson, westward to Peshawur, Stewart; Si.vdh, Stocks. 



mbsesaile '- ^^^ '" ' ^"nched from the base. Leaflets J-4 in., lower petiole^, floral 

 iin. oblon e^''* i-4 in. long, yellow, long-peduncled, in leafy racemes. 

 ' "g- Seeds minute, smooth. 



leaves^'i f vP?*"*' ^<»«*V ea? ^6\ Pro(fr. i. 241 ; branches glabrous prickly, 

 ^ « J-toholate, leaflets equalling or exceeding the petioles T^^? 



Capsules 



6967 



W. dc A. Prodr. 





IT.- i; r *»^asue sienaer toruiose. n. ac -a., x /« 

 „, '^'^ /c. t. 287. C. diffusa, Ronh. FL Ind iii 129. 



Annual 1* ,^^^^^1-^ and Ceylon ; common in sandy soil. ^ 

 J ^18 in. ; branches many from the root, prickles mi 



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