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176 XI. CAPPARiDEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Cappdris. 



Prodr. 26 ; Wight Ic. t 1048 ; Thwaites Enum. 15 ; C. corymbosa, Hoxk 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 569. C. bisperma, Wight Cat. 104 (not Roxb.) 



Forests of the Western Ghauts and Carnatic. a ^^ 



A large woody climber ; pubescence ashy or yellow, minute, deciduous. Leaves \\- 

 2i by 1-li in., babe acute, shining and glabrous above, pale beneath. Flowers white, 

 arranged as in C. Moonii; buds usually tomentose. Pttals broadly obovate-cuneate. 

 6ynOj)hore 1^-2 in. Fruit 1-2 in. diaui., globose. - / ' 



12. C. grrandis, Linn,/. ; DC. Prodr. i. 248; branches pubescent, thorns 

 or recurved, leaves broad-ovate or obovate acute obtuse or retuse silky 

 beneath, buds pubescent, ovary glabrous. Wall Cat 6996; W. & A. Prodr. 

 57; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 10 C. maximus, Roth; Wall. CaL 6d9o. 

 C. bisperma, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ii 568 ; W. & A. Prodr. 26 {excl. syn. Wi^ht tot 

 dk Klein.). C. obovata, Ham. and racemifera, DC. I.e. 248. 



Hill forests of the Carnatic, Dekkan, and Ceylon, 

 A tree. 



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Leaves 2-3 by lJ-2 in., base acute, glabrous above and the old on botn 

 surfaces ; petiole 4-| in. Flowers |-1 in. diara., white, in terminal corymbs or ra- 

 cemes, lower with leafy upper with deciduous bracts ; pedicels 1 in. Petals ^*™^ 

 obovate, obliquely ascending. Gynophore 1 in., sometimes only J or yV ^°* '^ 

 size of a nutmeg, subglobose, purple, smooth, 2-6-seeded. "^^ 



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** Flowers in simple umbels. 



13. C. orbicuJata, TlaZ^. mss. in Herb. Linn. Soc; branches pilos^ 

 thorns recurved from a broad downy base, leaves suborbicular ^^^^^.^J^ 

 retuse or mucronate papillose and hairy above tomentose beneath, fl^^^> 



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small, ovary glabrous. 



Segain hills, Birma, Wallich^ Griffith. 



A much branched rigid spreading shrub. Leaves |-1 in. broad, obscurely trapez<^i|^ 

 base cordate ; hairs above papillose ; petiole very short. Flowers umbelled, P*^'|^^^. 

 1 -2 in., 1 -leaved at the tip ; pedicels 4-f in., slender, spreading. Pemn^A absenu 

 Ovary oblong, acute ; gynophore less than \ in. 



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14. C. pedunculosa,. Wall. Cat. 6993; branches pubescent, tho^ 

 recurved, leaves glabrous suborbicular obtuse or retuse V^^"^^^^^^. 

 sepals equalling the oblong petals, ovary glabrous. Hook, /c Pl* ^ ^^ 

 Dalz. dh Gibs. Bomb. FL 9. C. sepiaria, WaU. Cat. 6993, G. 



Western Peninsula, Picssell; near Tanjore, in the Caknatic, Wight; Cose m 

 StocL's, &c. » 3 1 4 bf 



A spreading branched shrub ; branches wiry, at length glabrous. I^eavesj - t / 

 4-1 in., base cordate, shining above; petiole very short. Flowers ^-l '^^-^^^^'^l^^ 

 2-6-flowered terminal or axillary and shortly (J-i in.) peduncled umbels ; PHf^*^?. j^e of 

 in,, slender. Sepals reflexed in flower. Ovary oblong ; gynophore 1 in. -^'^^ ^ > ;: 

 a cherry, globose, several-seeded. ! 



15. C- longrispina, H.f. iSc T. ; branches pubescent, thorns long a^J 

 lar, leaves ovate-cordate acute rarely obtuse pubescent beneath, sepals*^ 

 ling the oblong petals. 



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shrub; branches slender, wiry, softly pubescent.^ .^ 

 |-U ^7. ^-f ^^^'1 glabrous above; petiole very short. Flowers exactly as ot ^.-^^ 

 culosa, in sessile terminal umbels. Fruit f mature ?) size of a nea. — Possibly a *> 



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adosa, in sessile terminal umbels. Fruit (mature ?) size of a pea. 



C. pedu7iculosaj though differing much in thoms pubescence and leaf-form.' f; 



16. C. parvlflora, H. /. d; T. ; branches unarmed, thorns "• '^ 

 glabrous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate; flowers 

 ;Duds glabrous, sepals and petals oblong, ovary glabrous. 



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