Roydsia.] x. capparidace.e. T2I 



to obovate elliptic acuminate, narrowed at the base ; nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, prominent beneath 3-5 to 4 in. long, i"5 to 2*25 in. wide; 

 petioles "6 in. long. All glabrous. Flowers in racemes, axillary 

 or forming a terminal panicle. Racemes 8 in. long dense-flowerecl. 

 Sepals 6, velvety on both sides reflexed, t in. long, linear oblong. 

 Stamens 20; filaments equal not compressed. Stigmas 3, globular. 

 Fruit unknown. Hah. Forests, Selangor, Sempang, Semangkok 

 Pass. Province Wellesley on a rock (Kunstler) rare. Disirih. 

 Burma. 



(2) R. Scortechinii King, I.e. 397; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 

 120, pi. 139. 



A climber, glabrous with pale bark. Leaf oblanceolate shortly 

 acuminate to broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate, narrowed to the 

 base, membranous ; nerves 6 or 8 pairs, rather fine, elevate beneath, 

 5 to 6 in. long, i'5 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles 75 in. long. Flowers 

 in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles about 6 in. long. Sepals 6, 

 linear-oblong, reflexed or tomentose on both surfaces, "i in. long. 

 Stamens 30 ; filaments unequal compressed. Gynophore very 

 short. Stigmas 3 ovate. Fruit ovoid smooth yellow, i'5 in. 

 long, •! in. through. Hab. Forests. Selangor, Ginting Bidai. 

 Perak, Larut, rocky jungle at 300 to 800 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 



4. CAPPARIS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs erect tomentose or climbing often with stipular 

 thorns. Leaves simple. Flowers white or pink often showy. 

 Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series. Petals 4, sessile imbricate. 

 Stamens indefinite inserted on the torus at the base of the long 

 gynophore. Ovary i- to 4-celled; stigma sessile ; ovules many or 

 2 to 6, on parietal placentas. Fruit fleshy. Seeds many imbedded 

 in pulp. Species 125, all warm climates except N. America. 



Flowers in simple umbels or racemes axillary. 

 Fruit globose. 



Flowers axillary solitary; leaves i in. long 

 narrow . . . . . . . (i) C. Larutensis 



Flowers umbellate terminal; leaves 2 in. long (2) C. dift'lisa 

 Flowers umbellate axillary; leaves 2 in. long 

 elliptic . . . . . . . (3) C. sepiaria 



Flowers racemose large ; leaves 5 in. long 

 fruit 3 to 4 in. . 

 Fruit globose 1-75 in. through; leaves 4 to 5 in 



long 



Flowers supra-axillary in rows of 2 or 3. 

 Leaves large 5 by 3 in. . 

 Leaves 6 by 3 in. strongly nerved 

 Fruit elongate 4 to 7 in. long . 

 Fruit elongate 3 in. long .... 

 Flowers in a terminal panicle of umbels, small 



(4) C. Scortechinii 



(5) C. Kunstler i 



(6) C, micracantha 



(7) C. perakensis 



(8) C. Finlaysoniana 



(9) C. cucurbitina 

 (10) C. paniculata 



