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Tribe II. CAPPAREM— Fruit indehiscent. 



3. TO V ARIA, R. P. 



(Bancroftia, Macfad.) 



Sepals, petals and stamens 8 (-7). Ovary sessile : placentas 6 (-8), united in the axis. 

 Pericarp baccate. — An annual herb, svffrutescent at the base and scandent-diffuse ; leaves 

 ternatisect ; raceme terminal, elongated, cernuous at the top. 



10. T. pendula, R. P.—R.P. Ft. Peruv. 3. t. 209 : an extreme form ; Hook. ic. t. 664. 

 — Bancroftia diffusa, Macf. ! — A glabrous plant, several feet high ; leaf-segments lanceolate ; 

 middle segment longer ; petals greenish-white, exceeding the calyx, but variable in their 

 shape and length, bluntish ; berry globose. The odour of the herb has been compared with 

 that of Apium. — Hab. Jamaica!, Macf., Pd., in the north-eastern mountain woods, 

 among shrubs by the side of water; [Venezuela! ; New Granada! at 6000'; Peru]. 



4. CRAT^VA, L. 



Sepals and petals 4 : aestivation of the corolla open. Stamens 8 — indefinite. Berry 

 stalked : placentas 2. — Shrubs or low trees ; leaves ternatisect ; racemes terminal, often 

 polygamous. Petals of the American species obverse-lanceolate. 



11. C. gynandra, L. Segments of leaves ovate, pointed; stamens 20-24, inserted 

 upon the cylindrical disc in the fertile flowers ; berry ovoid-globose, bluntly mucronate. 

 — Pluken. Phytogr. t. 147. f. 6. — A tree, 12'-20' high ; leaf-segments variable, glabrous ; 

 petals whitish (6"'-8"' long), three times exceeded by the stamens, which in the male flowers 

 are inserted upon a short, conical disc ; gynophore growing out to a great length ; berry 

 size of a pigeon's-egg. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., common in the plains ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; 

 [Mexico!, New Granada!, Guiana!]. 



12. C. Tapia, L. Segmeuts of leaves broadly ovate, acuminate; stamens 8-16 ; berry 

 globose, not mucronate. — Piso, Bras. p. 69. — A tree, about 20-30' high ; leaf-segments 

 much larger than in the preceding species ; berry size of a small orange. — Hab. Jamaica, 

 on the banks of salt-ponds, Macf; [Guiana!, Brazil]. 



5. CAPPARIS, L. 



Sepals and petals 4 : aestivation of corolla imbricative. Stamens 8 — indefinite. Fruit 

 stalked : placentas 2. — Shrubs or trees ; leaves undivided, entire. 



The American species are without prickles : all the "West Indian ones present four glands 

 in the bottom of the calyx and opposite to the sepals. 



Sect. 1. Pseudocrat^eva. — Calyx 4-parlite : segments valvate. Stamens usually 8, 

 inserted upon a short, columnar disc. Berry ovoid. 



13. C. ferruginea, L. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous above, powdery-pubescent, with 

 stellate down beneath ; flowers corymbose, small ; segments of calyx (1'" long) subulate, 

 blunt at the top ; berry ovoid-globose, downy, double the length of the gynophore. — Br. 

 Jam. I. 28. /. 1 ; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 149. — C. octaudra, Jacq. — A shrub, dwarfish 

 and compact, or a shrubby tree, 10'-20' high ; branches and inflorescence leprous and to- 

 mentose with appressed down; leaves 3"-4" long: petiole i'" long ; corymbs stalked, axil- 

 lary near the top of branches: petals white, oval-oblong, shortly clawed, about 3'" long, 

 equalling the stamens ; berry diam. 6"'-5'". — Hab. Jamaica !, common on the seashore, 

 M'Nab, March, Wils., Al. ; [Haiti]. 



Sect. 2. Breyniastrum. — Calyx ^-partite, or 4t-fid : segments valvate. Fruit 

 silique-shaped. 



14. C. amygdalina, Lam. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, glabrous above, leprous beneath; 

 flowers corymbose; calyx (1"'-1J'" long) four times shorter than the downy corolla: lobes 

 lanceolate, blunt, convex and leprous on the back; stamens 16, exseited. — Br. Jam. t. 27. 



/. 2; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 152. — C. Breynia, L., partim ; Jacq. (non Sw. nee DC). — 

 A shrub, 8-15' high; branches and inflorescence covered with wbitish-rufescent scales (not 

 downy) ; leaves 3"-4" long : petiole 4'" long ; corymbs stalked, axillary near the top of the 

 branches ; petals white, oval, very shortly clawed, about 5"' long, tomentose chiefly on the 



