570 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Capparis. 



7. C. heteroclita. R. 



Shrubby, climbing, unarmed. Leaves elliptic ; Corymbs 

 terminal. Calyx four-cleft. Corol regular. Stamina on 

 the receptacles. Berries long, compound. 



Teling. Putta tiga. 



A large unarmed climbing shrub, a native of the most 

 unfrequented and inaccessible Avoody parts of the Circar 

 mountains. It flowers during the cold season. 



Trunk and branches climbing. Bark of the old lig- 

 neous parts brown, and rough; of the young, round 

 shoots, smooth and green. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 oval, entire, smooth on both sides; from one to two 

 inches long, and from half an inch to an inch broad. 

 Flowers pretty large, pale greenish white, terminal, form- 

 ing small corymbs, of from four to eight on pretty long 

 round, smooth peduncles. Bractes minute, one under 

 the base of each peduncle. Calyx one-leaved. Tube 

 short, campanulate, four- sided. Border four-parted ; di- 

 visions broad-lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth. Corol 

 four-pe tailed. Petals inserted into the calyx over the 

 fissures, equal, lanceolate, waved, acute, about half the 

 length of the calyx. Filaments many, longer than the 

 calyx, inserted on a clavate receptacle, which is as long 

 as the tube of the calyx. Anthers oval. Germ elevated 

 on a long, slender style-like pedicel, even with the anthers, 

 oblong, two-celled, each containing two vertical rows of 

 ovula, attached to the partition. In what I consider the 

 real species of Capparis, the receptacles are parietal, 

 here septal. Style none. Stigma large, rather rough, 

 and convex. Pericarp a long, compound, pendulous, 

 berry, or rather four rows of berries, aflixed along a re- 

 ceptacle: the whole is from two to five inches long, 

 singly they are about the size of a cherry, covered with 

 a thin, dry bark. Seeds only one in each single berry, 

 or lobe of the compound fruit. 



Note, I should imagine this, with several of Jacquin's 



