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Capparis.] xi. capparide^, (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 177 



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Shewagen hills in the Carnatic, WfgJiL 



A spreaJing wiry much branched shrub for tree?). Leaves 1^-3 by ^-| m., base 

 narrow but cordate ]^ petiole short, broad. Floivers not 4 in. diam., in axillary or sub- 

 ternimai 3-6flowered subsessile or shortly peduncled umbels ; pedicels ^-^ in., slender. 

 retal8 oblong. Ovary oblong, gynophore I in. Fruit pisiform. 



f ^^' ?■ ^^^P*****^* Linn.; DC Prodr. i. 247: branches hoary or tomen- 

 tose, thorns recurved, leaves ovate oblong obovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 subacute or retuse penninerved downy (rarely glabrous) beneath, sepals 

 ^long, petals narrow, ovary glabrous. Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 568 ; Wall Cat 



^93- W, & A. Prodr. 26 : Gamb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 22 ; Dalz, & Gibs. 

 Bornbay Fl. 10. 



Dr7 places throughout India, from the Punjab and Sindh to Birma, PEac, the Car- 

 natic and Ceylon (at Jaffna. Gardner).— Bistrib. Philippines. 



A spreading wiry brancbed shrub. Leaves |-1^ by J-| in. ; petiole ^V 5"- Ploipers 

 ri "*. diara., white, in n)any -flowered sessile or shortly peduncled umbels; pedicels 

 Slender, ^-| in. Ovary ovoid, pointed; gynophore |-4 in. Fruit pisiform, black. 



^AR. 1. vulgaris; branches softly tomentose, leaves broad. 



Var 2. incanescens ; DC, Prodr. i. 247 Csp ), branches rigid wiry, hoary, white, 



^aves oblong, Wall Cat. 6994 ; W, & A. Prodr, 26 ; Hook. Ic. FL t. 123. C. stylosa 

 P' vt', i.e. 



^^^^' S, retmella; Thwaites Enum, 16, 400 (sp.) ; branches brown-tomentose, 

 eaves ovate or o6iong-lanceolate, glabrous beneath, tip tapering retuse, umbels few- 

 Dowered, gynophore longer.— Ceylon, near Kandy, Thwaites. 



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Flowers in racemose or panicled rarely solitary umbels or corymbs. 



I ^"' ^J- PumUa, Champion in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iiL 260; young 

 ^ranches puberulous, thorns recurved, leaves glabrous oblong-lanceolate 

 ^ununate, stamens about 20, buds globose glabrous. Benth. FL Hong- 

 y 18- C. punctata, Wall. Cat. 7002. 



A f ^\"'^^'^' alt. 2-3000 ft. —DisTKiB. E. China. 

 g.r; p"o. twigs sarmentose or climlnng. Leaves 2-34 by f-lj in., base acute, ob- 

 flowp V^^^'^^*'^^^! petiole i in., pubescent. Flowers { in. diam.; white, in few- 

 oblon o^"^^^ or umbels arranged in large terminal panicles; pedicel i-i in. Petals 

 gUro" ^^^^ ovoid-oblong, glabrous ; gynophore I in. Fruit |-| in. diam., globose, 



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otli ^'^ *,**?*^"'*da' Wight lil- i- 33, t. 14; branches glabrous, thorns 

 ^curved, leaves glabrous oblong rounded at both ends retuse apiculate, 



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iffith Not id. 



Ceylon in the 



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*liiriin^^l '^""'^y climber; branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by |-1| in., conaceons, 

 Tfianv fl/ f • . ^^^'^"'■ely F^ninerved below. Flowers i in. diam., wbite_; umbels 

 fttd/I^^^^' '" 'ai'ge terminal panicles ; pedicels ^-l in. Sepals reflcxed in flower. 



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stS^u" assamica, ff. / <& T. ; branches glabrous, thorns minute 



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"-*auwjr ^:urvou, leaves giaoroua lauccumtc v^ v^*^"o —"--- 



feticulate beneath, flowers racemed, buds very small globose 



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in tS!',^™<=^e8 slender. Leaves 4-6 by 14-2 in., base acute, pale below. Flowers 

 Vo£^ L "'^''/■^owered racemes, 3-4 in. long, which bear many subulate empty 



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