‘Capparis. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 567 
_ Beng. Kaloo-kera. 
Teling. Palikee. 
A middle sized, or rather a low, sbriaety, ramous shrub, 
growing common on dry, barren, rocky, or stony ground. 
It flowers about the end of the cold season. 
Young shoots of a bluish purple colour, and covered 
with a little white dust. Thorns stipulary, straight, short. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from broad-lanceolate 
to oval, firm, smooth ; margins somewhat scabrous, and 
for the most part ending in a small, hard, sharp point; 
about two inches long, and one anda half broad. . Pedun- © 
cles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, nearly as long as the 
leaves. Flowers pretty large, the two upper petals tinged 
yellow. Anthers blue. Germ long-peduncled, oblong, 
hairy, one-celled with four partitions projecting from the 
opposite sides of the walls to near the centre, but not meet- 
ing. Ovula numerous, attached in two vertical rows to 
each angle formed by the partial partitions and the 
seeds on the germ. Berry sub-rotund, size of a pigeon’s 
€gg, pretty smooth, soft, and when ripe red, one-celled. 
Seeds many, scattered in soft foetid white pulp, beaked, 
reniform. Integuments four: the exterior one ash-coloured 
and membranaceous; the second, thick, brown, tolerably 
hard, two-valved ; the third, a thin white membrane lining 
the second, or shell; and the fourth, membranaceous and 
attached to the seed. Perisperm no other than the fourth 
or inner integument of the seed. Embryo spirally rolled 
up. Cotyledons two-folded, petioled, ovate, veined. Ra- 
dicle three or four times larger than the cotyledons, 
Spirally rolled up with its thick point to the umbilicus. 
2. C. Zeylanica. Willd. 2. p. 1182. 
Shrubby, climbing; young shoots ferruginous, armed 
with stipulary recurved thorns. Leaves long, oval, acu 
minate, _Peduncles one, two, or three, above the | axills, | 
