178 XI. CAPPARIDEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Capparis. 



bracts at 'the base, and at the top a tuft of the same probably enclosing a leaf-bud ; 

 buds immature, each in the axil of a subulate bract ; pedicel in. Sepals 4, imbricate 

 in pairs. 



?ECT. III. Flowers seriate in vertical lines on the branches. 



21. C. multiflora, H.f. & T. ; branches glabrate^ thorns 0, leaves large 

 glabrous broad-lanceolate or oblong taper-pointed, flowers small, sepals 

 glabrous. 



Tropical valleys in E. NIPAL, and SIKKIM; BHOTAN, Griffith; Hookhoom valley in 

 BIRMA, Griffith. 



A large woody climber; branches long, slender. Leaves 6-12 by 2-5 in., thin, base 

 acute, pale beneath ; upper 2-4 in., often bract like and very deciduous ; petiole - in. 

 Flowers 4~ i"- diam., supra-axillary to the leaf or bracts, forming a leafy or naked 4- 

 or more-flowered raceme ; pedicels |- in. Petals obuvate-oblong. Ovary glabrous. 

 Fruit pisiform or larger, 1-3-seeded. 



22. C. horrida, Linn. /. ; DC. 7V*//-. i. 246 ; young leaves buds and 

 shoots brown-tomentose, thorns stout broad-based recurved, leaves ovate 

 obovate or oblong acute obtuse or mucroiiate at length shining above, 

 petals oblong ciliate, ovary glabrous acute. 1 1'.///. ( ''//. <i!>M ; II'. <(' A l'f></r. 

 26; Wiyht Ic. t. 173; Jj<ih. <( Gib* /;ml><ti/ /'/. 10. ( '. /rylanica, 1,'n.rh. 

 7-7. Ind. ii - r ><'>~ (W f Linn.}. (.'. I'oniiosa, If'///. C>if. r.S)MJ J. C. acu- 

 ininata, !!'///</.: )!'<///. (.'"/. W.M) C (not A or l> >. C. tenuiilora and quad- 



ritiora, I)C. I.e. '247. ('. erythrodasys, M /'/,/'/. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2,99. Capparis 

 sp. Griff. Ic. PL J,i. Or. iv. t. 



GANGETIC VALLEY, &c., as far N. as Sabarnnpore; WEHTEKN PENINSULA, CHITTA- 

 GONO to PEGU ; ("EVLON. DlBTKlB, .lava. I'liilif^ 



SliruMiy, climbing. Leaves li-4 by |-2 in., tip juingent, at length shining above 

 and usually much ivtirulat--. 1.1-2 in., while or purplish; buds globuse ; 



pedicels supra-axillary, 4~l i' 1 -- "PI"' 1 ' l ri ,- ( ' r - Fruit 1-1J in. diaui., obovoid or eub- 

 globose, smooth, obtusely 4 angled, red-brown, many-sreded. 



23. G. acuminata, Willd. ; DC. /'/-,//. i. 247 ; young shoots and loaves 

 !i l)n\vii-tu!ii, . raight tr curved, leaves at length Ja- 



brou- liroad-ovatf obtusely acuminate, buds globose downy, flowers small. 

 C. zcylanica, IT. <( A. l'r //. iT) (not <>f Linn., Imt j>c/-/t>//>s <>J J)(J. I'wxlr.). 



Wi-stcrn I't-ninsiila, ('.virxATii-y Klin in lli-rb. \\"njlit. 



Erect?; branches slender. Leaves i^-2 by l-l in., obtusely acuminate, mem- 

 branous; petiole &- in. I-'lm; rx '2-4 in a series, whitt^, axillary; pedicels ^-1 in. 

 downy. The specimen in Herb. Wight, is the only one known. It differs from C. hor~ 

 rida in the thorns and small white flowers. The original ticket bears the manuscript 

 name ferruyinea of Klein, corrected by himself to acuniiiiata, \\illd., no doubt from 

 corresponding specimens sent to Europe; the locality is unknown. 



24. C. olacifolia, 77. /. & T. ; young branches brown-pubescent, thorns 

 straight or slightly curved, leaves glabrous ovate-lanceolate taper-pointed, 

 tip acute obtuse or mucronate, flowers large, buds ovoid glabrous, sepals 

 oblong ciliate, ovary pubescent. C. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 6990 A, h (not 

 C, nor of Willd.). Capparis, 1149, Griff. Itin. Notes, 199. 



Tropical Himalayan valleys, from NIPAL, Wallich, to ASSAM, Griffith, &c. 



An erect shrub, 6-8 ft. ; branches long, leafy, old glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2A in., 

 base rounded or subacute, shining above, midrib of young puberulous. Flowers 14 in. 

 diam., (white, anthers blue) 2-3 in a series, axillary ; buds acute, glabrous or puberulous. 

 Sejjah margined. Petals narrowly obovate-oblong, pubescent. Fruit | in. diuin., globose, 

 sharply beaked, black, smooth, shining. 



