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CAPPARIDACE^. (CAPER FAMILY.) 



I I Seeds glabrous. 



3. C. ornithopodoide§, L. .3 to .5, 



sparingly glandular-pubescent, sparingly branclied 

 above. Leaflets oblong-linear .01 to .02 long. 

 Pods stipitate or sessile, deflexed, linear, striate^ 

 torulose, slightly papillose-glandular, .03 to .05 

 long, .0015 broad — Spring — Aintab and north- 

 ward and eastward. 



4. C. I>racliycarpa, Vahl. 21 Berlerdn. 

 .3 to .4, glandular, branching from neck. Leaflets 

 thickish, lenticular to obovate-oblong, .005 to .01 

 long, floral minute, often simple. Pods sessile, 

 glandular, .01 to .012 long, .002 broad — Spring 

 — Sinai near Red Sea. 



1 1 Leaves simple. 



Fm. 57. 



\ Stamens 6. Pods shart-stijntate. Seeds icoolly, pod of cieome Arabica. 



5. C. K.ot§cliyaiia, Boiss. If .3, herbaceous, glaucous, glabrous 

 below ; stems simple or sparingly branched. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved ; upper sessile, minute, ovate-oblong. Fetsls, jjale, 

 obsoletely veined ; pods Unear-spatTiulate, glabrous, .05 long, .012 to 

 .015 broad at upper end — Spring — Desert between Hamath and 

 Palmyra, and eastward. 



6. C triiiervia, Fresen. If .5 to .6, densely scabrous tcith yellotc, 

 stipitate glands, branching from base. Leaves j)etioled, ovate, acute, 

 3-nerved, the lower .03 long, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, the upper 

 minute, oblong, to oblanceolate. Petals reddish, veined ; pods linear, 

 .05 to .07 long, .005 to .006 broad, glandular-scabrous — ^^rmg — 

 Gravel ; in valleys and plains about the Dead Sea, and southward to 

 Sinai and Arabia. 



X \ Stamens 4. Pods not stijntate. Seeds glabrous, 



dotted. 



7, C. clro§erifolia, Del. 5 Rihh-el-bard. .2 to .6, strigose with 

 stipitate, yellow glands, much branched from base, brittle. Leaves long- 

 petioled, round to Mdney -shaped or cordate, .01 long and broad. Petals 

 yelloic ; pods oblong-cylindrical, scarcely .01 long, .003 broad, shorter 

 than pedicels, glandular — Spring — Around the Dead Sea, and south- 

 ward to Sinai and the Egyptian desert. 



XXX Stamens 10-14. Seeds glabrous. 



8. C. clirysantha, Decaisne. 5 Sufeir atdn. .3 or more, shrub- 

 by, glandular, branches flexuous. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, acutish 

 .006 to .008 long. Pods ovate .005 long, glandular ; pedicels twisted^ 

 recurved — Spring — Sinai. 



2. CAPPARIS, L. Caper. Kabar. 

 Calyx 4-parted. Petals 4, imbricated in bud. Torus short. Sta- 



