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6. CAPPARIS, Linn. 



(Busbcckia, EndL) 



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Sepals usually 4, rarely 5, free or the outer ones united in the bud into an 

 entire calyx, which splits irregularly as the flower expands. Petals usually 4, 

 imbricate. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the short torus, the filaments free, 

 fihform. Ovary borne on a long stalk, 1 to 4-celled, with 2 to 6 placentas 

 and several or many ovules ; stigma sessile. Berry stalked, globose or elon- 

 gated, very rarely dehiscent. Seeds several, immersed in pulp, with a hard 

 or coriaceous testa and convolute embryo.^ — Trees or shrubs, sometimes 

 climbing, unarmed or prickly. Leaves simple, membranous or coriaceous ; 

 stipules prickly or setaceous, often only on the young or barj-en shoots. 



\ large genus, distributed over the tropical and warm regions, both of the New and the 

 Old "World ; and divisible, chiefly from remarkable differences in the calvx, into several 

 sections, of which two only are Australian, one, Uucapparis, coiiipris 

 the Asiatic and African species, but is not American, the other, Busheckia, i 

 Australia and Norfolk Island. The Australian species of both sections are all endemic, ami 

 ^any of them are remarkable for producing slender barren shoots, with very prickly sti- 

 pules, and small leaves so verj^ differently shaped from'those of the ilowering-branches, that 

 where we have specimens of these barren branches only, it is impossible to identify them. 



Sect. I. Eucapparis.— ASr^»a/j 4, ratlicr Urge, imbricate in 2 series, Berrf/ globular 

 or ovoid, r > 



Flowers on slender pedicels iu tenninal umbels. Outer sepals equal . 1. C, nmbeilata. 

 J' lowers lateral or axillary, pedicels solitary or one above the other. 

 One of the outer sejjaL larger aud saccate or concave at the base, 

 stamens 12 or under. Flowers small, 



pedicels usually 2, ouo over the other. Flowers very tomentose . 2. C. lasiantha. 



Pedicels 4 or 5, one above the other. Flowers slightly pubescent 3. C, quinifora. 

 stamens numerous, or more than 15. • ^ . 



Sepals very unequal, the largest f in 4. <?. nummulana. 



Sepals slightly unequal, about 3 lines 5- ^- ^^rmentosa. 



th^T^' II' Busbeckia.— Twjo aider sepals Iroad, very concave, comxMehj united in 

 ^e bud^ and separating irregularly as iheJlov:er expands. 

 leaves mostly ovate or oblong, 

 -'weaves mostly 2 to 4 in. long. Ovary glabrous. Fruit from i to a 

 httle more than 1 in. diameter, 

 blowers mostly axillary, distant. 

 -L-eaves ovate. Buds ovoid, acuminate, 1 in. long, almost 

 woody 



6. C ornavs. 



I-eaves ovate or oUonz.' Buds globular, \ in. long, coriaceous 7- ^- nolihs. 



leaves ovate. Buds 4-a«gled »• ^- cdnescens. 



flowers in a terminal corymb or short raceme. Buds globnlar . 9. C. Iiicida. 

 weaves mostly 1 to 1^ in. long. Ovary tomentose. Fruit 2 in. 



T diameter 10- C^- -VifcMh. 



^ves lanceolate or long"and iiarrmv. ^, „•y-,■ 

 leaves obtuse at the base. Petiole very short U. CJoranth/oha. 



J^'-'vcs narrowed i„to a rather long petiole 12. (7. ^mionafa. 



SKcTrnw T T? T./i 71... 7 : ots _Sepa]s 4, ratlier large, im- 



^^ .'^JiCTlON I. EUCAPPARIS, DO. Pfod. i- 245.- 



JHcatc iu two scries. Ecrry globular or ovoid. 

 ^ 1- C. ximbeUata, 71. Br. in DC. Frod. I 2-i7. Sluubby, with the 

 >°»ng branches tomentose. Stipulary spines small, nearly straight or re- 

 ^"'•ved. Leaves from ovate to narrow-oblong, mostly H to 2 in., ov when 



