Cadaht 



.] XI. CAPPARiDE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 173 



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We.sterx Peninsula, from Guzerat and the Concan souttwards, on old walls and in 



vaste 



A straggling^ much branched shrub, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 1-1 4 in, 

 J^lowerslm. diam., greenish white, in few-flowered terminal corymbs; bracts small, 

 subulate. Sepals ovate. Claw of petals narrow. Disk broad, funnel-shaped, smooth, 

 tmLnate. Fruit l-lj in., cyliudiic ; pulp orange. 



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3, C. farinosa, Forsk ; DC. Prodr. i. 244 ; hoary, leaves ovate or oblong 

 obtuse, petals 4 limb narrow spathulate, stamens 5, fruit iudehiscent? 

 mess.Ic. Sel iii. t. 8; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afric, I 89. C. dubia, DC. I.e. 



Dry places in the Punjab at Multan, Edgeworth; and Sindh, Stocks.— Distrib. 

 AraLia, trop. Africa. _ ^ 



A straggling, much branched, wiry shrub. Leaves J-^ in, rarely 1 in. Flowers as 

 C. ludica but petals very narrow. Fruit i-li in., cylindric — Delessert's Iconcs re- 

 present 6 stamens, we iSnd 5 only. 



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1 \ ?' lieterotrlcha, Stocks in Hook Ic. PL t. 839 ; glaucous and pulveru- 

 ™t, leaves broad obovate or orbicular, petals 4 limb suborbicular, stamens 5. 



SiJiDH ; on rocks near Cape Monze, Stocks. 



Fh>\ ^^^^^^ branched tree, 10-20 ft., young parts often glandular. Leaves 1 in. 



fp''* «J"- Jiam., in terminal dense corymbs. Sepals ovate, acute. Limh ofpctaU 



ua!bo ^ ^'^^* ^^^^ o/^i^i slender, tubular, limb small, oblong, crenate. Fruit 



7. CAFPARXS, Linn. 



tho ^^ ^r^ ^^?» ^^^*^* decumbent or climbing, unarmed or with stipulary 

 Seh^^'i y^^^^.^ simple, rarely 0. Flowers white or coloured, often showy, 

 in^'^ ? free, imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalvate. Petals 4, sessile, 

 P\nhn^ ' ^^^^^^^ indefinite, inserted on the torus at the ba^e of the long 

 l-fi n *^^% ^wr?/ stalked, 1-4-celled ; stigma sessile ; ovules many, on 

 imbeJ^^i • P^^^centas. Fridt fleshy, rarely bursting by valves. Seeds many, 

 ^Dkt o ^^^P' ^^'^^^ crustaceous or coriaceous ; cotyledons convolute. 

 i^TRiB. Species 120, natives of all warm climates, except N. America. 



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EOT. I, Flowers solitary, axillary. (Flowers sometimes fascicled in 

 ^^ylamca, and 4, Hepieana,) 



obtJiE' *P*^osa, Lmn. ; leaves orbicular, pale green not shining acute 

 oftpn Vi.^- ^^'^^^' thorns straight hooked or 0, flowers large, fruit ribbed 

 ^aoehiscing. Oliv, Fl, Trap. Afrix^. i. 95. (Caper plant.) 



13000 ft Q^'^^ HiiiALAYAN valleys Eastward to Nipal; West. Tibet, ascending to 

 IJ^THIR Aff^f^^' Punjab; and Western Peninsula in the Mahableshwar bills.— 

 ' A bran 1^1"*^*^"' ^^'^®* ^^'^» Europe, N. Africa, Australia, Sandwich Islands. ; 

 ^bicular I i^^' glabrous or hoary, branches prostrate or trailing. Leaves 1-2 m., 

 ^ ^^ceedin ^n ,'^^ «vate. Flowers white, with purple filaments; pedicels equalling or 



' Va« 1 ^*'y^^^^^ ' ^^^^^ ^i-2 i"-i «void or oblong. 



*^cate p^^^.^^«/ armed, glabrous, often glaucous, leaves fleshy, anticous sepal very 



Var'o ^'**®a^ -Fm.— Maritime, from Sindh to Arabia, and E. Africa. 

 ^^'i^l^^W^'^' ^^^'•nied, leaves suborbicular fleshy. G. vn^vMvU, Sibth. Flor, 



W ,•; r ""^f/w; armed, young part 



^The c ' ™- '^ <^ib8. Bomb. Fl. 9 ( 

 Vab ;T°" I?diau and Oriental form 



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kleu n Tj <:?^""' ^C- Prodr. i. 246 (sp.) ; floccose all over witl 



'»erHiLi • '"•-*• ^0- C. nepalensis, WaU. Cat. 6979.-C(jnfin 



""■^'a^m valleys, also Persian. : , . .* . >. ,. m. A'Sft. , 





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