Capparis] xi. CAPPAKIDE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 175 



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straight, leaves (only on young shoots) glabrous linear pungent, buds pu- 

 bescent, stamens 18-20. Wall. Cat. 6983 ; W. & A. Prodr. 27 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl.9; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afric. x 95. (C. Sodada, Br.; Sodada deci- 



Driest places in the Punjab, Guzerat, Rajpdtana, the Dekkan and S. Carnatic. 

 -Djstrib. Arabia, Egypt, N. trop. Africa. 



A dense much branched shrill) ; branches slender, glabrous. Flowers 1 in. diam,, 

 red-brown, in many-flowered corymbs on short lateral shoots. Outer sepals subvalvate, 

 ciliate; inner very saccate. Fruit 4-| in., glabrous, long-beaked. 



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.7. C. diver^ifolla, W. <k A. Prodr. 27 ; glabrous, thorns recurved base 

 oroad, leaves glabrous linear or oblong-lanceolate, flowers l\ in. purple, 

 ovary glabrous. Hooh Ic. PI. t. 181. C. reticulata, Klein, ex Wall. Cat 6986. 

 U divancata, Wall. Gat 6988, A {not B). C. cserulea, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. I.e. 



_, Western Peninsula, in Travancore. ^ ■ 



A shrub, branches zigzag, young puberulous. ieov^s lJ-2 by |-f in., uppermost 



^sually frarely all) twice as long and ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, shining above ; petiole 

 ki r^^^^^f ^ J i'^-j in few-flowered terminal subsessile corymbs ; pedicels subclavate, 



pnberuloua. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals broad-obovate. Ovary narrow-oblong. Fruit 



4 m., ovoid, smooth, many-seeded. 



V I' ?' *''*'^®'^*^f H'f' <^' P' ; branches brown-tomentose, thoms recur- 

 pn, leaves glabrous broad-lanceolate 3-plinerved, sepals orbicular tomen- 

 tose, ovary glabrous. 



TmssERiM, Ilelfer ; Tavot, Parish, 



umuing?, branches long. Leaves 2-3 by §-1 in.; nervules transverse, few; 

 FHole and midrib brown tomentose. Flowers 14-2 in. diam., in terminal many- 

 owered corymbs ; pedicels 1-1 J in., lower with foliaceous bracts, upper with minute 

 es. Ovary ovoid, acute ; gynophore 1 J in. Fruit unknown. 



reo* *''7f^s*<5olor, Griffith Notuliv. 517 ] branches glabrous, thorns short 

 ^wiurved, leaves glabrous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate 

 scurely penninerved, sepals ovate glabrous, ovary glabrous. 



Tena^serim, Gnj^^A.-DisTRiB. Java. • , 



shin ^^ k^' l^ranches flagelliform. Ze ^?;e5 2-3 bv |-1 in., tip retuse, glabrous and 

 then T' P^^^ heneath; petiole J in., puberulous. Flowers 2 in. diam., white 



asilk*^^^^ ' I?^J8 globose, glabrous ', corymbs simple, terminal, with the lower flowers 

 »aiy, or few-flowered and disposed in lateral racemes I-IJ in. long; pedicel 1 in. 

 «aW*^^"^ T^r^^ convex, inner netioled. Ovary ovoid, gynophore IJ in.— Perhaps (7. 



, . .'WW, Blume, of which we have seen no authentic specimen, 



leal?' *'• ^oonli, Wight Til 35; branches glabrous, thorns recurved, 



w J? ^^long obtuse or subacute with a callous tip glabrous, flowers 4-5 



/iiam., sepals orbicular, ovary glabrous. Thwaites Enum. 16. 



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' A L?^' ^^^<^t^s, See, ; Ceylon ascending to 3000 ft. 

 •luain^ff "^ '^ climber, branches flagellate. Lsai 



Leaves 3-6 by 14-2i in., conaceous 



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^hh n] ^^* n^'' ^^^void or Rubglobose. Seeds many, size of a large bean.— Pro- 

 18 altn^. f ^ . ^'^^^cd state of C. BoxlurgUi. Thwaites' character of thelong funiclo 



sometimes 

 convex 



inconstant. 



l>escent ■ti?****"''^'*"' ^^- Prodr. i. 247 ; young branches hoary-pu- )( 

 Vmminaf S^^ recurved, leaves glabrous obovate-oblong obtuse a^ute or 

 "^ate, flowers 2 in. diam., sepals orbicular; ovAry glabrous. JT. & A. 





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