Capjparis 



CAPPARIDACE^ 



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1. C. eynophallophora L. Sp. PL 504 (1753), Hort. Cliff. 20-1: 

 (1737), Sijst. ed. 10, 1071 (1759) (excl. syn. Plum.) <fe Sp. PI 

 ed. 2, 721 (1762) (excl. syn. Plum., Plul-., ife Sloan.) ; plant mostly 

 covered with minute scales ; leaves elliptical or oblong-elliptical, 

 or narrowly elliptical ; tlower-bud 4-angled ; sepals distinct, in 

 one series, valvate, nearly as long as the petals, reflexed : stamens 

 two or three times as long as the petals ; fruit siliquiform, 

 torulose, dry, rupturing irregularly. C. siliquosa L. S[/8t. ed. 10, 

 1071 (1759) (excl. syn. Plul-.). C. jamaicensis Jacq. Enum. PI. 



Fig. 96. Capparis eynophallophora L. 

 A, Portion of flowering branch x ft. E, Seed cut lengthwise, slightly enlarged ; 



B, Flower with petals and stamens (except 



one) removed x 



C, Ovary cut across x 5. 



D, Fruit X ft. 



c, cotyledon ; r, radicle. 



F, Emliryo slightly enlarged. 



G, Scale very nmch enlarged. 



(After Sargent.) 



Carih. 23 (1760); Sel. Sfirj?. Amer. 160, t. 101 it Ed. pivt. 78, 

 t. 150; Marf. Jam. i. 39 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 18; Eichl. in 

 FL Bras. xiii. pt. 1, 270, /. 64, f. IT. ; Sarg. Silv. i. 33, /. 19; 

 Urh. Sijmh. Ant. iv. 252. C. torulosa Sw. Prodr. 81 (1788) c^- 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 932; Mac/. Jam. i. 40. C. Breynia .S'^^,'. Ohs. 210 

 (1791); Macf. loc. cit. ; (non L. nee Jacq.). C. emarginata 



A. Rich, in Sagra Cuh. x. 28, /. 9 (1845). Breynia fruticosa 

 foliis oblongis, kc. Browne Hist. Jam. 246, t 27, f. 1 (excl. syn.). 



B. arborescens etc. Broicne loc. cit. (excl. S3'n,). (Fig. 96.) 

 Specimen from Hortus Cliffortianus in Herb. Mus. Brit, 



Black Willow, Zebra Wood (Wright). 



In fl. and fr. ^May-Sept. ; Wright ! Shakspcar ! Bancroft ! Road from 



