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n.ge shrub, the wood in concentric layers as in Nie- 

 buhria. 

 2. CADABA INDICA, Lam. ; F. B. I. i. 172 ; W. & A. 24. 



Dry Districts of the N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic from 



Vizagapatam southwards ; often on old walls, on trees, in 



waste places, and about villages. 



A straggling or half-climbing shrub ; wood not in concentric 



layers. 



6. Capparis, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect straggling or climbing, unarmed or with 

 stipular thorns. Leaves simple or 0. Flowers white or coloured, 

 often showy. Sepals 4, free, in 2 whorls, all imbricate or the 

 outer valvate. Petals 4, sessile, imbricate, 2 rarely united into a 

 short spur at the base. Stamens long, numerous, inserted on the 

 torus at the base of the gynophore. Ovary stalked, 1-4-celled ; 

 ovules many, on 2-6 parietal placentas. Fruit fleshy, rarely 

 dehiscing by valves. Seeds numerous, imbedded in pulp ; testa 

 crustaceous or coriaceous ; cotyledons convolute. 



Mature branches leafless ; thorns straight ; flowers under 1 in. across, 



red; fruit globose, red 1. aphylla. 



Mature branches leafy: 



Flowers solitary or nearly so : 



Ovary glabrous, grooved ; flowers 25-3 in. across: 



Thorns hooked ; leaves pubescent beneath ; flowers white ; fruit 



slightly granular, oblong 2. grandiflora. 



Thorns straight ; leaves glabrous ; flowers red ; fruit rugose, 



globular 3. stylosa. 



Ovary tomentose ; flowers white tinged with yellow : 

 Flowers 1-5-2 in. across : 



Pedicel not less than the gynophore : 



Berry ovoid; leaves l'5-2-5 in. long 4. brevispina. 



Berry fusiform, narrowed into the gynophore ; leaves 3-5 in. 



long 5. fusifera. 



Pedicel 5 times shorter than the gynophore ; berry -7 in. across, 



black 6. olacifolia. 



Flowers 4-5 in. across ; thorns minute or 7. Heyneana. 



Flowers in racemes, umbels, corymbs or panicles : 

 Umbels or corymbs solitary : 



Pedicels stout, umbelled, 1-3-flowered, sessile at the ends of leafy 

 twigs; fruit oblong 8. diversifolia. 



