<Capparis.] xi. CAP p ABIDED. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 175 



straight, leaves (only on young shoots) glabrous linear pungent, buds pu- 

 bescent, stamens 18-20. Wall. Cat. 6983 ; W.&A. Prodr, 27 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 9 ; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afric. i. 95. (C. Sodada, Br. Sodada deci- 

 dua, Forsk.) 



Driest places in the PUNJAB, GUZERAT, EAJPDTANA, the DEKKAN and S. CAENATIC. 

 DISTRIB. Arabia, Egypt, N. trop. Africa. 



A dense much branched shrub ; branches slender, glabrous. Flowers 1 in. diam., 

 red-brown, in many-flowered corymbs on short lateral shoots. Outer sepals subvalvate, 

 ciliate ; inner very saccate. Fruit ^- in., glabrous, long-beaked. 



7. C. diversifolia, W. & A. Prodr. 27 ; glabrous, thorns -recurved base 

 broad, leaves glabrous linear or oblong-lanceolate, flowers 1 in. purple, 

 ovary glabrous. Hook. Ic. Pl.t. 181. C. reticulata, Klein, ex Wall. Cat. 6986. 

 C. divaricata, Wall. Cat. 6988, A (not B). C. caerulea, Heyneex Wall. Cat. I.e. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, in Travancore. 



A shrub, branches zigzag, young puberulous. Leaves 1^-2 by J-f in., uppermost 

 usually (rarely all) twice as long and ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, shining above ; petiole 

 & in. Flowers 1^ in., in few-flowered terminal subsessile corymbs; pedicels subclavate, 

 puberulous. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals broad-obovate. Ovary narrow-oblong. Fruit 

 1 in., ovoid, smooth, many-seeded. 



8. C. trinervia, H. /. & T. ; branches brown-torn entose, thorns recur- 

 ved, leaves glabrous broad-lanceolate 3-plinerved, sepals orbicular tomen- 

 tose, ovary glabrous. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer; TAVOY, Parish. 



Climbing?, branches long. Leaves 2-3 by f-1 in. ; 'nervules transverse, few ; petiole 

 and midrib brown tomentose. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., in terminal many-flowered 

 corymbs ; pedicels 1-1 \ in., lower with foliaceous bracts, upper with minute ones. Ovary 

 ovoid, acute ; gynophore 1^ in. Fruit unknown. 



9. C. versicolor, Griffith Notid. iv. 577 ; branches glabrous, thorns short 

 recurved, leaves glabrous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate 

 obscurely penninerved, sepals ovate glabrous, ovary glabrous. 



TEXASSERIM, Griffith. DISTRIB. Java. 



Climbing; branches flagelliform. Leaves 2-3 by f-1 in., tip retuse, glabrous and 

 shining above, pale beneath; petiole j in., puberulous. Flowers 2 in. diam., white 

 then rose ; buds globose, glabrous ; corymbs simple, terminal, with the lower flowers 

 axillary, or few-flowered and disposed in lateral racemes 1-1^ in. long; pedicel 1 in. 

 Outer sepals very convex, inner petioled. Ovary ovoid, gynophore 1^ in. Perhaps C. 

 salaccensis, Blume, of which we have seen no authentic specimen. 



10. C. BXoonii, Wight III. 35 ; branches glabrous, thorns recurved, 

 leaves oblong obtuse or subacute with a callous tip glabrous, flowers 4-5 in. 

 diam., sepals orbicular, ovary glabrous. Thwaites Enum. 16. 



CONCAN, Stocks, &c. ; CEYLON, ascending to 3000 ft. 



A large woody climber, branches flagellate. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2J in., coriaceous, 

 shining above, pale beneath. Flowers white, in 6-12-flowered almost leafless terminal 

 corymbs, with sometimes a solitary axillary flower; pedicels 1-2 in., stout. Outer 

 sepals orbicular, convex, much imbricated. Petals subpilose. Gynophore 3-4 in. 

 fruit 2-4 in. diam., obovoid or subglobose. Seeds many, size of a large bean. Pro- 

 bably a large flowered state of C. Eoxburghii. Thwaites' character of the long funicle 

 is altogether inconstant. 



11. C. Roxburg'hii, DC. Prodr. i. 247 ; young branches hoary-pu- 

 bescent, thorns recurved, leaves glabrous obovate-oblong obtuse acute or 

 acuminate, flowers 2 in. diam., sepals orbicular, ovary glabrous. W. & A. 



