72 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Capparidee. 
D. lanceolata ; caulibus simplicibus erectis foliosis, foliis lanceolatis denticulatis pube stellata pubes- 
centibus, siliculis ovalibus corolla brevioribus stylo brevi terminatis post florescentiam contortis.—D. 
contorte et confuse affinis.—Hab. Shalkur. 
Cochlearia? flava ; floribus flavis, siliculis globosis inflatis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis sinuato- 
partitis, caulinis oblongis sinuato-dentatis omnibus glabris crassiusculis.—Cochlearia flava. Buch. Hort. 
Beng. p. 48. Alyssum Cochlearioides. Roth. nov. pl. spec. 322.—Cochlearia? Alyssoides. D.C. Prod. 1. 
p- 172. Camelina Caisir. Wall. Cat. 4802. An Genus novum? Silicula globosa inflata, valvis hemis- 
phericis, septo membranaceo.— Semina plurima pleurorhizea immarginata funiculis longissimis.—Calyx 
szqualis petaloideus flavus.—Peta/a sulphurea (in siccis alba) integra.—Stamina edentula.— Glandula 
‘inter stamina lateralia et pistillum.—Germen globosum stylo brevi terminatum. 
Hesperis glabra ; pedicellis inferioribus calyce longioribus summis brevioribus, petalis obovatis longe 
unguiculatis, foliis crassis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis dentatis subruncinatisve glabris, scapis plurimis 
erectis glabris apice pilis subglandulosis—Racemus patulus multiflorus ebracteatus—Flores albi 
forma et magnitudine H. aprice—Silique teretiuscule subtorulose.—Hab. Nako in Kunawur. 
Tauscheria desertorum ; @ lasiocarpa. Ledeb. Ic. pl. Fl. ross. Alt. illustr. t. 139.—Flora Altaica, 
ii. p. 200.—7'. lasiocarpa, D.C. Syst. Veg. 11. p. 563. Prod. 1. p. 210.—Hab. This plant, 
formed into a species, as well as the variety 8 gymnocarpa, and distinguished from it by having 
the silicules hairy on their convex side, has been so fully described by the celebrated De Candolle 
and by Ledebour, as to require but little notice in this work; it has been figured as a remarkable 
instance of the existence frequently on the N. face of the Himalayas of the same genera and species, 
which were thought to be peculiar to the S. of Siberia and the Altai Mountains. ‘The radical leaves 
are petioled, but wanting in some specimens; but the flowers in all the specimens from Shalkur, in 
Kunawur, are of a yellow colour. The genus Tauscheria, closely allied to Isatis, is distinguished by 
its one-celled, one-seeded, boat-shaped silicule, and by its valves, which are likewise boat-shaped, having 
inflexed, concave coriaceous wings, which form a hollow on the upper surface of the silicule-—T ab, 17. 
1. Stamen and Pistil ; 2. a Silicule; 3. cut longitudinally ; 4. cut transversely ; 5. the Seed; 6. cut 
transversely; 7. Embryo. 
12. CAPPARIDEZ. 
The Capparidee being chiefly a tropical family, form a conspicuous figure in the Flora 
of India. In the same way that we have seen species of European families creeping down 
to the limits of the tropical zone, so do we find plants of this family, as Capparis spinosa 
and Cleome violacea, extending nearly up to the centre of the temperate zone. In like 
manner, though nearly twenty species of Capparis have been found in the plains of 
India, besides others in the Malayan Peninsula, only two occur in the Himalayas. Of 
these, C. Nepalensis I have only found growing in the crevices of rocks, in the hot 
valley in the neighbourhood of Raengurh. C. obovata grows in similar situations in 
Kunawur. Species of Polanisia and Gynandropsis also occur as high as six thousand 
feet in the mountains, but only during the moisture and equable temperature of the 
rainy months. This is a family well calculated to show the community of many genera 
to both the New and the Old World, as species of Capparis, Gynandropsis, Cleome, 
Polanisia and Crateva, are found in the hotter parts of America, as well as in India. 
Capparis horrida and sepiaria, Crateva religiosa, Gynandropsis pentaphylla and Polanisia 
viscosa, occur as far north as Saharunpore, as well as in the most southern parts. 
Capparis aphylla, which, notwithstanding its name, has early in the season plenty of 
oblong, obovate deciduous leaves, is 
; restricted to the drier and more barren parts, and 
flourishes, as we learn from Mr. 
Elphinstone, even in the midst of the desert. From 
India 
