566. _POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Capparis.. 
recurved aculei, none of which are. stipulary. Leaves 
bipinnate ; pinne from twelve to fourteen pair; leaflets 
about forty pairs. Panieles terminal; spikes globular, : 
corollet polyandrous. ate 
Hind. Biswool. : 
Acacia pennata, Willd. 4. p. 1090,' 
Acacia aculeata. Burm, Zeyl. 2. 11. 
A native of Hindoostan of the Ballo and Payen Ghaut 
mountains. Flowering time the month of Onna the 
seed ripens in March and April. . 
50. M. torta. R. 
Sub-arboreous, with scandent branches, armed with 
recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate ; pinne as many as 
thirteen pair ; leaflets as many as forty pair ; petioles with 
a large oblique conic gland at the base, and between each 
of the last half of the pinnae. Racemes terminal ; spikes 
globular, corollets polyandrous. Lenina leafy, from six 
to ten-seeded. 
A native of the mountains of Cote ie In those 
prickly, scandent, species, the small lateral branchlets 
twist round whatever they meet with and give powerful 
spuport to the whole plant, after haying taken a turn of 
two their length extends, &c. like the other branches. — 
ith 
CAPPARIS. Schreb. ‘gen. n. 876. 
GEN. CHAR. Calyx four-leaved. Corol roorspetalle 
Stamina long. Germ pedicelled, one-celled ; ovula numer 
ous, attachment parietal. Berry pedicelled, one 
many-seeded. Embryo spiral, no perisperm. 
1. C. acuminata. Willd. 2. 1131. ° oe 
Shrubby, armed with stipulary, straight thorns. a 
from broad-lanceolate to cordate-acuminate, sm ooth ooth 5; Pe ¢ 
duncles solitary, one-flowered. Berries borate: 
