44 FLORA OF MADRAS. aris. 



Pedicels approximate but not umbelled, often at the ends 01 ^afiess 

 twigs, forming stout corymbs, or, if forming slender umbels, then 

 thorns small or 0, and buds and pedicels finely tomentose : 

 Leaves glabrous, oblong : 



Flowers 4-5 in. across ; thorns short, stout, hooked ; young 



branches glabrous 9. Moonii. 



Flowers 1*5 in. across; thorns few or ; young branches 

 hoary : 



Flower-buds glabrous ; leaf nerves ascending 



10. Roxburghii. 



Flower-buds tomentose ; leaf nerves divaricate 



11. Cleghornii. 



Leaves usually velvety on both sides, never quite glabrous, 

 lanceolate to oblate ; flowers 1 in. across; fruit globose, dotted, 



1*5 in, across 12. grandis. 



Pedicels slender, usually numerous, in terminal or axillary sessile 

 or shortly-stalked umbels : 



Spines 0, or very few and small; buds and pedicels glabrous : 

 Twigs densely shortly pubescent ; fully grown buds '2 in. long 



13. toiiientella. 

 Twigs glabrous ; fully grown buds '1 in. long ; fruit pisiform 



14. parvijiora. 

 Spines numerous, recurved : 



Leaves round; gynophore in flower 1 in. long; umbel few- 

 flowered 15. pedunculosa . 



Leaves ovate lanceolate; gynophore in flower -2 in. long; 

 umbel many-flowered ; flower small, white ; fruit -5 in. across 



16. sepiaria. 



Umbels panicled ; flowers small, white ; prickles recurved or ; 



fruit ? in. across, green 17. floribunda. 



Flowers in supra-axillary rows : 



Stout climbing shrub ; young parts tomentose ; fully grown buds 



3 in. in diam. ; fruit 1'5 in. in diam. , reddish brown; flowers 



white, turning rose 18. zeylanica. 



Slender shrub ; young parts glabrous ; fully grown buds -15--2 in. 



in diam. ; flowers white ; fruit pisiform 19. tenera. 



1. CAPPARIS APHYLLA, Roth ; F. B. I. i. 174 ; W. & A. 27 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. t. 3. 

 Tinnevelly. 



A twiggy shrub or small tree ; wood light yellow, hard and 

 close-grained. 



