566 FOLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CappariS. 



recurved aculei, none of which are stipulary. Leaves 

 bipinnate ; pinncB from t\Aelve to fourteen pair; leaflets 

 about forty pairs. Panicles terminal; spikes globular, 

 corollet polyandrous. 



Hind. Biswool. 



Acacia pennata. Willd. 4. p. 1090. 



Acacia aculeata. Burm. Tieyl. 2. 11. 



A native of Hindoostan of tlie Ballo and Pa yen Ghaut 

 mountains. Flowering time the month of October ; the 

 seed ripens in March and April. 



50. M. torta. R. 



Sub-arboreous, with scandent branches, armed wiih 

 recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate; pinnce as many as 

 thirteen pair ; leaflets as many as forty pair ; petioles with 

 a large oblique conic gland at the base, and between each 

 of the last half of the pinna?. Racemes terminal ; spikes 

 globular, corollets polyandrous. Legumes leafy, from six 

 to ten-seeded. 



A native of the mountains of Coromandel. In those 

 prickly, scandent, species, the small lateral branchlets 

 twist round whatever they meet with and give powerful 

 spuport to the whole plant, after having taken a turn or 

 two their length extends, &c. like the other branches. 



CAPPARIS. Schreh. gen. n. 876. 

 Gen. char. Calyx four-leaved. Corol four-petalled. 

 Stamina long. Germ pedicelled, one-celled ; ovula numer- 

 ous, attachment parietal. Berry pedicelled, one-celled, 

 many-seeded. Embryo spiral, no perisperm. 



1. C. acuminata. Willd. 2. 1131. 



Shrubby, armed with stipulary, straight thorns. Leaves 

 frum broad-lanceolate to cordate-acuminate, smooth ; pe- 

 duncles solitary, one-flowered. Berries obovate. 



