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ORD. XXII. PUTAMINES. 
(From Putamen, a shell) 
Certain plants of a similar habit, whose seed-vessel or fruit is 
commonly covered with a woody shell. 
CAPPARIS SPINOSA. COMMON CAPER-BUSH.* 
SYNONYMA. Capparis. Pharm. Geoff. tii. 250. Dale. 324. 
Alston. it. 870. Bergius. 449. Murray. ti. 305. Edinb. New 
Disp. 160. Kanrags. Dioscor. Capparis spinosa fructu minori, 
folio rotundo. Bauh. Pin. 480. Capparis rotundiore folio. 
Ger. Emac. 895. Park. Theat. 1023. Ray. Hist. 1629. Ic. 
Smith. Specileg. Bot. t. 20. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 643. 
Gen. Ch. » Cal. 4-phyllus, coriaceus. Petala 4. Stam. longa. 
Bacca corticosa, unilocularis, pedunculata. 
Sp. Ch. C. pedunculis solitariis unifloris, stipulis spinosis, foliis 
annuis, capsulis ovalibus. 
ROOT woody, crooked. Stem trailing, much branched, round, 
smooth: branches alternate, spreading, often downy, leafy, many 
flowered. Leaves alternate, on short footstalks, spreading, oval, 
or roundish, in the wild plant often terminated by a little sharp 
point, which disappears by culture, entire, veiny, succulent, 
bright green, deciduous. Stipule none: but in their stead are 
two spines at the base of the footstalks, acute, somewhat recurved, 
yellowish, which are nearly obliterated in the cultivated plant. 
Flowers numerous, axillary, solitary, on footstalks, without bractex, 
* The only medicina] plant of this order. 
