CARAIPA 117 



Classification and chief genera (after Pax): 



A. Mostly shrubs, with hairs or scales, rarely glandu'ar. No replum. 

 I. DIPTERYGIOIDEAE (samara): Dipterygium (only 



genus). 



II. CAPPARIDOIDEAE (berry): Capparis, Cadaba, 

 Maerua. 



III. ROYDS101DEAE (drupe): Roydsia. 



IV. EMBLINGIOIDEAE. Prostrate undershrubs. Calyx 



tube present. Petals (2). Nut. Emblmgia (only genus). 



B. Glandular annuals. Siliqua with replum. 



V. CLEOMOIDEAE : Cleome, Polanisia. 



Capparis (Tourn.) L. Capparidaceae (n). 150 trop. and sub-trop. 

 (exc. N. Am.). Many climb by recurved stip. thorns. The rl.-buds 

 of C. spinosa L. (Medit.) are known as capers (cf. Eugenia). 



Capraria (Tourn.) L. Scrophulanaceae (in. i). 4 warm Am. 



Capreolatus (Lat.), tendrilled. 



Caprification. cf. Ficns. 



Capriflcus Gasp. = Ficus Tourn. p.p. (Morac.). 



Caprifoliaceae (EP. ; BH. incl. Adoxaceae). Dicots. (Sympet. Rubi- 

 ales EP., BH.). ir gen., 230 sp temp, (chiefly N.) and on trop. 

 Mts. Mostly trees and shrubs with decussate usually exstip. leaves 

 (see Sambucus). Fls. 9 , reg., or in cymes, usually -,-merous with 

 the odd sepal post. Sta. in one whorl, epipet. G (2 5), multi- 

 loc. with i oo pend. ov. in each loc. Fr. usu. berry or drupe 

 (caps, in Diervilla). Embryo small in fleshy endosp. [BH. chars. 

 include herb with rad. 1. and small head of fl. ; P homochlam. ; 

 G semi-inf.] Chief genera: Sambucus, Viburnum, Symphoricarpus, 

 Linnaea, Lonicera, Diervilla. 



Caprifolium Tourn. ex L. = Lonicera L. p p. (Caprifol.). 



Capsella Medic. Cruciferae (4). 4 N. temp. C. Bursa-pastorts 

 Medic, (shepherd's purse) in Brit, and a cosmop. weed, self-polli- 

 nated. In early spring and lale autumn the sta. are often aborted. 

 The 1. vary in shape and degree of division in various situations. 

 Solms (Bat. Zeit. 1900, p. 167) describes C. Heegen. a new form 

 which has an elongated ir., which has arisen from the shepherd's 

 purse, and is almost generically distinct. 



Capsicum (Tourn. i L. Solanaceae (2). 30 C. and S. Am., i Japan. 

 C. annunm L. cult.; its fr. are chillies or red peppers; dried and 

 ground the v form Cayenne pepper. Other sp. are used, (^ee Irish 

 in Rep. Miss. Rot Gdn., 1898, for revision of cult, forms.) 



Capsule, a dry dehiscent fruit of > i carpel. 



Capura Blanco (O/opko'-a Blume, EP}. Sapind. (i). r Phil. Is. 



Capura L. Wikstrormia Endl. (Thymel.). 



Caracasia Szysz. Marcgraviaceae. 2 Venezuela. 



Caragana Lam. Leguminosae (in. 6). 40 Cent. As., China. 



Caraguata (Plum.) Lindl. (Gitzmania Ruiz et Pav.). Bromel. (i). 

 20 S. Am. Cult. orn. infl. 



Caraguata fibre, Bnwielw, Eryngium, Furcrea, &c. 



Caraipa Aubl. Guttifer <e (i). (Ternstroem, BH.) 12 trop. S. Am. 

 They yield a useful hard timber (tamacoari), and a medicinal 

 balsam. 



