122 X. CAPPARiDACE-^. [Capparis. 



(i) C. Larutensis King, I.e. 393; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 118, 

 pi. 134. 



Sarmentose or scandent prickly shrub, 30 to 40 ft. long. Branch- 

 lets and petioles minutely tomentose, prickles in pairs short hooked. 

 Leaves glabrous coriaceous oblong-lanceolate obtuse or retuse; 

 nerves faint 5 to 6 pairs, i to 1*25 in. long, '4 in. broad; petioles 

 •2 in. long. Flowers white turning pink, 75 in. across, solitary 

 on pedicels '5 in. long. Sepals ffeshy ovate, inner ones round 

 concave. Petals oblong glabrous. Stamens 12. Gynophore nearly 

 2 in. long. Fruit globose. Hah. Thickets. Perak, Larut, climbing 

 on trees (Kunstler) ; Kampar mines, sarmentose bushes (Ridley). 



(2) C. diffusa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 68. 

 Shrub with slender branches pubescent. Thorns hooked very 



small. Leaves elHptic-lanceolate glabrous, shortly blunt-acuminate, 

 edges crisped; nerves 5 pairs, 2 in. long, i in. wide; petioles 

 •15 in. long. Umbel terminal 5-flowered; peduncle '25 in. long; 

 pedicels filiform, i in. long. Sepals rounded-ovate pubescent 

 •15 in. long. Petals white oblong blunt, hairy outside. Stamens 12. 

 Gynophore filiform '5 in. long. Ovary ovoid conic. Hab. Perils 

 on limestone rocks at Bukit Lagi. 



(3) C. sepiaria Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 720 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 177 ; 

 King, I.e. 393. 



A scandent bush, much branched. Thorns short recurved. Leaves 

 membranous, ovate to oblong, sometimes pubescent ; nerves 4 or 5 

 pairs ; petioles '05 in. long. Flowers "35 to '5 in. across in terminal 

 umbels with slender -5 in. long pedicels. Buds globose. Sepals 

 oblong. Petals narrow white. Ovary apiculate. Gynophore '25 

 to -5 in. long. Fruit pisiform, black. Hah. In thickets with 

 C. micracantha. North of the peninsula. Kedah, Alor Sta. 

 Common. Distrih. India, Cochin-China, Timor. 



(4) C. Scortechinii /'C^Vz^, I.e. 394; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 

 118, pi. 135. 



A climber, young parts and inflorescence red-woolly. Thorns 

 stipular, in pairs hooked. Leaves coriaceous, broad lanceolate- 

 acuminate, much narrowed at base, eventually glabrous; nerves 

 6 paii-s, prominent beneath, 5 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad; petioles 

 •5 in. long. Flowers i"5 across, on short woody lateral racemes. 

 Bracts petiolate ovate 75 in. long. Sepals round concave tomen- 

 tose outside. Petals pink, broadly elliptic obovate notched. 

 Stamens more than 20. Fruit globose 3*5 to 4 in. through. Gyno- 

 phore 2"5 in. long, -6 in. through. Hah. Dense jungle in hilly 

 spots. Perak, Batang Padang district (Kunstler). Penang, Batu 

 Feringhi (Curtis). 



(5) C. Kunstleri King, I.e. 396. 



Scandent, 40 to 60 ft. tall, glabrous. Thorns in pairs stipular 

 short, hardly 'i in. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong-lanceolate 

 to oblanceolate acute, narrowed and cuneate at the base ; midrib and 



