234 FLORA OF JAMAICA Capparis 



In fl. Feb., April, May; in fr. Feb., Aug., Sept., Nov.; Hopewell, 

 St. Ann, McNabl Ocho Rios, Purdiel West Indies, Central America, 

 Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana. 



Shrub or small tree, 7 -25 ft. high. Leaves, nerves and veins prominent 

 beneath, evident above, 1-3 dm. 1., 3-5-10 cm, br. ; petioles '5-5 cm. 1. 

 Flowers odourless, corymbose at the end of branches. Calyx-lohes roundish, 

 barely 1 '5 mm. 1., glands small. Petals pale greenish-white or purplish, 

 obovate, very fugacious, 8 mm. 1, Stamens white, pink at base, numerous. 

 Fruit 3-6 cm. L, purplish-brown. 



6. C. flexuosa L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 722 (1762) ; plant glabrous, 

 without scales ; leaves oblong-elliptical to elliptical, but also very 

 variable in breadth from broadly elliptical to almost linear, 

 with an oblong axillary gland, stipulate ; calyx 4:-partite, 

 segments in two series, imbricate, roundish, concave, one-third as 

 long as the petals ; stamens about three times as long as the 

 petals ; fruit siliquiform, continuous or torulose, about twice 

 as long as the gynophore (4-9 cm. 1.). C cvnophallophora 

 L. Syst. ed. 10, 1071 (1759) (with ref. to Plumier) & Sj). PL 

 ed. 2, 721 (in part) (non Sp. PL 504) ; Jacq. SeL Stirp. Amer. 

 158 t. 98 & Ed. pict. t. 145; Wright 3Iem. 195; Mac/. Jam. 

 i. 37 ; Griseh. loc. cit. (excl. ^) ; EicM. torn. cit. 282, t. 63 ; TJrh. 

 torn. cit. 254. Morisonia flexuosa L. Amoen. v. 398 (1760). Acaciis 

 aflinis arbor siliquosa &c. SJoaiie Cat. 153 & Hist. ii. 59. 

 Capparis arborescens lauri foliis fructu longissimo Plum. Cat. 7, 

 PL Amer. (Burm.) t. 73,/. 1 & Ic. ined. f?. 36. Cynophallophorus 

 &c. Pluk. Aim. 126, t. 172, /. 4 (specimen in Herb. Sloane 

 xcvi. 2). Type in Herb. Linn. 



Bottle- cod Root. 



In fl. after the rains in May and Oct. ; St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane 

 Herb. vi. 52 ! Houstoun ! Browne ! Broughton ! Wright ! Shakspear ! 

 Swartz ! common on the plains, Macfadyen ; St. Andrew ; St. Mary ; 

 Distin ! McNab ! Morant Bay, Wilson ! Hope River, Armstrong ! Cherry 

 Garden; King's House; Mavis Bank; J. P. 1350, Morrisl Stony Hill; 

 Red Hflls ; Up Park Camp ; Campbell ! Hope, Harris ! PI. Jam. 5692, 

 5922, 6523, 6635. Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Bartholomew, St. Eustatius, Antigua, Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Mustique, Bequia, 

 Barbados, Panama, S. America. 



Shriih or tree 8-25 ft. high. Leaves, nerves and veins more or less 

 prominent on both sides, 4-9 cm. 1., 1-4*5 cm. br. ; petiole about "5 cm. 1. 

 Pi,acemes axillary and terminal. Flowers showy, fragrant. Sepals, the 

 outer smaller than the inner, 5-7 mm. 1. Petals white or pale rose, 

 obovate, about 1'5 cm. 1. Stamens white, to nearly 5 cm. 1. Fruit 

 7-15 cm. 1., 1-1*5 cm. indiam., opening gradually by rupture by two valves 

 from the apex either on one side or on both. Seeds many in two rows, 

 imbedded in the scarlet pulp. 



Var. saligna comb, nov., leaves long, linear to linear-lanceo- 

 late, 9-12 cm. 1., '5 to nearly 2 cm. br. C. saligna Yahl Symh. 

 Hi. 66 (1794). C. cynophallophora var. saligna Griseh. loc. cit. 



Masson ! Palisadoes, J.P., 1006, Morris\'&i. Cruz. 



