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2. Crataeva tapia. Round fruited Garlic-Pear-tree. 



Stamens 8-16 inserted on a cylindrical disk half 

 the length of the petals and of the thecaphorum, 

 berry globose, leaflets ovate acuminate unequal at the 

 base. 



Plum. Gen. t. 21. — Pis. Bras. t. 69. — Mulus Americaiius 

 trifolia, fructu pomi auraiitn iiistar colorato, Comm. hort. I. 129. 

 t. Ql.—De Cand. Prod. I. 243. 



HAB. Spanish- Town road : Salt-ponds. 



FL. May. 



A tree about 20 feet in height. Leaflets broad-ovate, suba- 

 cuminate. Raceme terminal, at first corymbose. Peduncles 

 about 2 inches in length. Flowers purpurascent. Calycine 

 sepals spreading', deciduous. Petals 4, about an inch in length, 

 rounded at the apex, with the claw long. Stamens about 16, 

 declinate, about 3 times the length of the petals. Stipe of the 

 ovary length of the stamens: stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit 

 globose, size of a small orange. 



IV. Capparis. Caper-tree. 



Calyx 4-partite. Petals 4. Disk small. Theca- 

 phorum slender. Stamens x. Silique subbaccate, 

 stipitate. — De Cand. 



Shrubs ; rai'ely trees. Leaves simple. With exception of 

 the common Caper-tree (Capparis spinosa), the buds and un- 

 ripe fruit of which are very much esteemed in Europe as a 

 pickle, no other of the species produces any thing, that man has 

 been capable of converting to satisfy his wants, or gratify his 

 appetites. — JVamc, from the Arabic Kabar, from which the 

 Greeks made -/.arr-ast;. 



1. Capparis cynophallophora. Bottle-cod root. 



Leaves glabrous coriaceous oblong shortly petiolated, 

 axillary glandule subglobose, peduncles few-flowered 

 shorter than the leaf, silique long terete fleshy. 



Browne, 246. t. 27. f. \.—Jacq. Amer. 158. t. 98. 



HAB. Common on the plains. 



FL. After the rains, in May and October. 



A tree-like shrub, about 8 feet in height : branches long, 

 virgate, flexuose, subterete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sub- 

 distichal, petiolate, oblong, obtuse, or slightly emarginate at 

 the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous : petiole 

 scarcely i an inch in length, terete, slightly channelled above. 

 Axillary glandule small, subrotund, distilling from a minute 



