Cadaba.] xi. CAPPARIDE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 173 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from Guzerat and the Concan southwards, on old walls and in 

 waste dry places. 



A straggling much branched shrub, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 1-14 i n - 

 Flowers 1 in. diam., greenish white, in few-flowered terminal corymbs ; bracts small, 

 subulate. /Sepals ovate. Claw of petals narrow. Disk broad, funnel-shaped, smooth, 

 fimbriate. Fruit 1-1 4 in., cylindric; pulp orange. 



3. C. farinosa, Forsk. ; DC.Prodr. i. 244 ; hoary, leaves ovate or oblong 

 obtuse, petals 4 limb narrow spathulate, stamens 5, fruit indehiscent ? 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 8 ; Oliv. FL Trop. Afric. i. 89. C. Dubia, DC. I.e. 



Dry places in the PUNJAB at Multan, Edgeworth ; and SINDH, Stocks. DISTRIB. 

 Arabia, trop. Africa. 



A straggling, much branched, wiry shrub. Leaves - in. rarely 1 in. Flowers as 

 in C. indica but petals very narrow. Fruit ^-l^ in., cylindric Delessert's Icones re- 

 presents 6 stamens, we find 5 only. 



4. C. heterotricha, Stocks in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 839 ; glaucous and pulveru- 

 lent, leaves broad obovate or orbicular, petals 4 limb suborbicular, stamens 5. 



SINDH ; on rocks near Cape Monze, Stocks. 



A small rigid branched tree, 10-20 ft., young parts often glandular. Leaves 1 in. 

 Flowers \ in. diam., in terminal dense corymbs. Sepals ovate, acute. Limb of petals 

 equalling the claw. Claw of disk slender, tubular, limb small, oblong, crenate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



7. CAPPARIS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect decumbent or climbing, unarmed or with stipulary 

 thorns. Leaves simple, rarely 0. Flowers white or coloured, often showy. 

 Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalvate. Petals 4, sessile, 

 imbricate. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the torus at the base of the long 

 gywphpre. Ovary stalked, 1-4-celled ; stigma sessile ; ovules many, on 

 2-Afparietal placentas. Fruit fleshy, rarely bursting by valves. Seeds many, 

 inroedded in pulp, testa crustaceous or coriaceous ; cotyledons convolute. 

 DISTEIB. Species 120, natives of all warm climates, except N. America. 



SECT. I. Flowers solitary, axillary. (Flowers sometimes fascicled in 

 3, zeylanica, and 4, Heyneana.} 



1. C. spinosa, Linn. ; leaves orbicular, pale green not shining acute, 

 obtuse or retuse, thorns straight hooked or 0, flowers large, fruit ribbed 

 often dehiscing. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 95. (Caper plant.) 



Hot WESTERN HIMALAYAN valleys Eastward to Nipal ; WEST. TIBET, ascending to 

 13,000ft.; SINDH; PUNJAB; and WESTERN PENINSULA in the Mahableshwar hills. 

 DISTRIB. Affghanistan, West Asia, Europe, N. Africa, Australia, Sandwich Islands. 



A branched shrub, glabrous or hoary, branches prostrate or trailing. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 orbicular or broad ovate. Flowers white, with purple filaments ; pedicels equalling or 

 exceeding the leaves; fruit 1^-2 in., ovoid or oblong. 



VAR. 1. galeata ; armed, glabrous, often glaucous, leaves fleshy, anticous sepal very 

 saccate. C. galeata, Fres Maritime, from Sindh to Arabia, and E. Africa. 



VAR. 2. rupestris; unarmed, leaves suborbicular fleshy. C. rupestris, Sibth. Flor. 

 Grcec. t. 487 ; Wall. Cat. 7001 (no locality and perhaps not Indian). 



VAR. 3. vulgaris ; armed, young parts downy. C. obovata, Royle III. 73; Cambess. 

 inJacq. Voy. Bot. t. 21. C. Murrayana, Graham Cat. Bombay PI 9; Wight 111. 

 t. 379 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 9 (C. ^Egyptiaca, Linn. C. herbacea, Willd.}. 

 The common Indian and Oriental form. 



VAR. 4. leucophyUa, DC. Prodr. i. 246 (p.) ; floccose all over with white pubescence, 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 10. C. nepalensis, Walt. Cat. 6979. Confined in India to the 

 lower Himalayan valleys, also Persian. 



