Capparis. polyandria monogynia. 5G7 



Beng. Kaloo-kera. 



Teling. Pahkee. 



A middle sized, or rather a low, scraggy, ramous shrub, 

 growing common on dry, barren, rocky, or stony ground. 

 It flowers about the end of the cold season. 



Young shoots of a bluish purple colour, and covered 

 with a little white dust. Thorns stipulary, straight, short. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from broad-lanceolate 

 to oval, firm, smooth ,• margins somewhat scabrous, and 

 for the most part ending in a small, hard, sharp point; 

 about two inches long, and one and a half broad. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, nearly as long as the 

 leaves. Flowers pretty large, the two upper petals tinged 

 yellow. Anthers blue. Germ long-peduncled, oblong, 

 hairy, one-celled with four partitions projecting from the 

 opposite sides of the walls to near the centre, but not meet- 

 ing. Ovula numerous, attached in two vertical rows to 

 each angle formed by the partial partitions and the 

 seeds on the germ. Berry sub-rotand, size of a pigeon's 

 egg, pretty smooth, soft, and when ripe red, one-celled. 

 Seeds many, scattered in soft foetid white pulp, beaked, 

 reniform. I?ifeguments four : the ej^^eWor one asii-coloured 

 and membranaceous; the second, thick, brown, tolerably 

 hard, two-valved ; the third, a thin white membrane lining 

 the second, or shell; and the/o?/r^7i, membranaceous and 

 attached to the seed. Perisperm no other than the fourth 

 or inner integument of the seed. Embryo spirally rolled 

 up. Cotyledons two-folded, petioled, ovate, veined. Ra' 

 dicle three or four times larger than the cot3ledons, 

 spirally rolled up with its thick point to the umbilicus. 



2. C. Zetjlanica. Willd. 2. p. 1132. 



Shrubby, climbing; young shoots ferruginous, armed 

 with stipulary recurved thorns. Leaves long, oval, acu- 

 minate. Peduncles one, two, or three, abo:^e the axills. 



