14 BERBERIDE2E. [ Berberis. 



North- West Himalaya from 3,000 to 9,000 ft. 



H 45. Simla, 6,500ft 



H 3054. Mahasu, Simla, 7,500 ft 52 



5. B. coriacea, nov. sp., Brandis. Vern. Kashmal, Simla. 



A large erect thorny shrub, with soft corky bark. Wood yellow, 

 moderately hard. Annual rings marked by a belt of small or moderately 

 sized pores ; in the rest of the wood the pores are very small or ex- 

 tremely small, and arranged in numerous confluent, irregularly shaped 

 tails and patches of whitish tissue. Medullary rays short, fine to 

 broad. 



North-West Himalaya above 8,000 ft. ; often forming alone or with other shrubs 

 large extents of scrub jungle, e. g., in the valley south of Nagkanda near Simla. 



Ibs. 



H 48. Nagkanda, Simla, 9,000 ft. 

 H 2894. 

 H 3039. 



H 3041. 



H 3043. 



H 3038. Matiyana, Simla, 8,000 ft. 



H 3042. Hattu, Simla, 10,000 ft. 



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6. B. angulosa, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. .111; Gamble5. Vern. 

 CJiufra, Nep. 



A large erect shrub. Bark soft, brown, corky. Wood dark grey 

 or yellowish brown, hard. Annual rings marked by a belt of small 

 pores; in the rest of the wood the pores are very small, arranged in 

 irregular radial tails of whitish tissue. Medullary rays fine, numerous. 



Inner ranges of Nepal and Sikkim above 11,000 ft. 



E 2862. Suburkum, Darjeeling, 11,000 ft. 



ORDER VII. CAPPARIDE^J. 



Six Indian genera are of trees, shrubs or climbers belonging all to one tribe, Capparooe. 

 The climbing genera are : Mcerua, one species, M. arenaria, Hook, f . and Th. ; Hook. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 171 (Capparis heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 570). Vern. Patta tiff a, Tel., a 

 large woody climber of the Western Himalaya, Upper Gangetic plain and Central 

 India ; and Roydsia, two species, R. suaveolens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 643 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 180; Gamble 5. Vern. Kasonli, Nep. ; Tunggor, Lepcha, in the tropical forests of 

 Sikkim, Bhutan and the Khasia Hills, and R. obtusifolia, Hook. f. and Th. ; Kurz i. 

 67. Vern. Ngaphyoo, Burm., in the swamp forests of Burma. Ntebvkria lhn-i'iit, 

 DC. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 171, is a small tree of the hilly parts of the Carnatic ; and the 

 species of Cadaba are small straggling shrubs chiefly of the arid zone, C. 

 Lamk. Vern. Jali taka, occurring in Berar and the Dekkan, and C. 

 Stocks; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 173, being a small tree found in rocks near Cape 

 in Sind. 



Wood light-coloured. Pores small to moderate-sized, rarely large ; 

 often arranged in radial lines; medullary rays moderately broad, wavy. 



1. CAPPARIS, Linn. 



A genus of about thirty species of thorny shrubs or climbers. About fifteen occur in 

 Burma, ten in the Dekkan and Cantaiie, live on the western coast, right in Urngal and 

 :n, two in the Gan-jvtir valley and Central India, and three in the arid /.one of the 

 Punjab and Sind. Besides those here described, t here are several common species. C. *j>f- 

 tvtsd, Linn.; Hook. Kl. Ind. i. 17.'*; Urandis 11. Vern. l\',iti,in',i. \ 1'g. ; l\nl>rn, Tibet; 

 Amir, kcri, hauler, kakri, tulc< t\ Inr, liantri, Imitri, Intuxur. 1'h. ; f 7la-&Ofo, Iviinuuin ; 



