Capparia 



CAPPARIDACE^ 



231 



1. C. cynophallophora L. Sp. PL 504 (1753), Hort. Cliff. 204 

 (1737), Syst. ed. 10, 1071 (1759) (excl. syn. Plum.) & Sp. PL 

 ed. 2, 721 (1762) (excl. syn. Plum., Pluk., & Sloan.) ; plant mostly 

 covered with minute scales ; leaves elliptical or oblong-elliptical, 

 or narrowly elliptical ; flower-bud 4-angled ; sepals distinct, in 

 one series, valvate, nearly as long as the petals, reflexed ; stamens 

 two or three times as long as the petals; fruit siliquiform, 

 torulose, dry, rupturing irregularly. — C. siliquosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 

 1071 (1759) (excl. syn. Pluk.). G. jamaicensis Jacq. Enum. PL 



A, Portion of flowering branch X §. 



B, Flower with petals and stamens (except 



one) removed X f • 



C, Ovary cut across X 5. 



D, Fruit X §. 



Fig. 96. — Capparis cynophallophora L. 



E, Seed cut lengthwise, slightly enlarged j 

 c, cotyledon ; r, radicle. 



F, Embryo slightly enlarged. 



G, Scale very much enlarged. 

 (After Sargent.) 



Carib. 23 (1760); SeL Stirp. Amer. 160, t. 101 & Ed. pict. 78, 

 t. 150; Macf. Jam. i. 39; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 18; EicM. in 

 FL Bras, x'iii. pL 1, 270, t. 64, /. II.; Sarg. Silv. i. 33, «. 19; 

 Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 252. C. torulosa Sw. Prodr. 81 (1788) & 

 FL Ind. Occ. 932 ; Macf. Jam. i. 40. C. Breynia Sw. Obs. 210 

 (1791); Macf. loc. cit. ; (non L. nee Jacq.). C. emarginata 



A. Bich. in Sagra Cub. x. 28, t. 9 (1845). Breynia fruticosa 

 foliis oblongis, &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 246, t. 27,/. 1 (excl. syn.). 



B. arborescens &c. Browne loc. cit. (excl, syn.). (Fig. 96.) 

 Specimen from Hortus CHffortianus in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Black Willow, Zebra Wood (Wright). 



In fl. and fr. May-Sept. ; Wright I Shakspear I Bancroft I Road from 



