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acrid volatile salt, like the mustard tribe; and hence, in 

 Jamaica, where it grows wild, it has obtained the name of 

 the Mustard Shrub. 



7. Capparis Baducca. Peduncles one-flowered ; leaves 

 perennial ; ovate-oblong, determinately crowded, naked ; 

 leaves smooth on both sides, obscurely netted. It is a na- 

 tive of the East Indies, where it is cultivated for the beauty 

 of the flowers, which appear in January. 



8. Cupparis Cynophallophora. Peduncles many-flowered, 

 terminal ; leaves oval, obtuse, perennial ; glands axillary. 

 This species varies considerably in its habit or general 

 appearance, according to the soil in which it is found : in 

 sunny hedges it is weak, thin, and, as it were, supported by 

 the neighbouring vegetables ; but in fields, and towards the 

 shores, it is a kind of shrub, or little tree of twelve feet high, 

 and of a pretty appearance ; in the axilla of the leaves there 

 is a roundish solitary gland, which is scarcely ever missing; 

 the flowers are beautiful, very patulous, and extremely fra- 

 grant, of a white or greenish white; the stamina often four 

 inches long. Native of the West Indies. 



9. Capparis Pulcherrima. Peduncles racemed ; leaves 

 oblong, obtuse ; fruits berried. This is an upright shrub in 

 open situations, only two or three feet high, but in woods 

 rising to twelve feet ; flowers beautiful, of a pale yellow colour, 

 and having a very sweet scent ; filamenta at first white, then 

 bright purple : each raceme has only one or two berries, 

 from two to four inches in diameter, variegated green and 

 brown on the outside ; the flesh or pulp when unripe, hard, 

 and having little scent ; but when ripe, soft, nauseous, and 

 go fetid that no animal will touch it. Native of Carthagena 

 jn New Spain, on the declivities of the mountains. 



10. Capparis Linearis. Peduncles subracemed ; leaves 

 linear. This plant, which grows in great plenty on the woody 

 hills of Carthagena, is an elegant upright branchy tree, about 

 fifteen feet high ; the flowers are white, inodorous, and about 

 half an inch in diameter ; the fruits are orange-coloured, with 

 a redness intermixed, and about an inch in diameter. 



11. Capparis Breynia. Peduncles racemed; leaves per- 

 manent, oblong ; calices and peduncles tomentose ; flowers 

 c'ight-stamined. A small tree, with an upright smooth trunk, 

 and flexuose branches, scarred with the fallen leaves ; twigs 

 angular and pubescent. It is a native of dry coppices near 

 the sea in Jamaica, and most of the other islands in the West 

 Indies. 



12. Capparis Hastata. Peduncles many-flowered ; leaves 

 hastate-lanceolate, glittering. This is an upright weak shrub, 

 divided into a few very long branches, often six feet long ; 

 the common footstalks of the flowers are clustery, terminal, 

 almost half a foot long, and support about eight flowers, 

 which are somewhat odorous, purple, and nearly two inches 

 in diameter. Native of Carthagena, in woody places. 



13. Capparis Flexuosa. See the eighth species ; from 

 which it in nowise differs. 



14. Capparis Siliquosa. Peduncles many-flowered, com- 

 pressed ; leaves permanent, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, 

 dotted beneath. The leaves of this species are extremely 

 acuminated ; the upper surface is glittering, and the lower 

 powdered with ferruginous dust. Mr. Miller says, it rises 

 with a shrubby stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, sending 

 out many woody branches, covered with a reddish brown 

 hark. It was sent to him from Tolu in America. . 



15. Capparis Grandis. Corymbs terminating; leaves ovate, 

 acute, smooth ; fruit globular. This is a large hoary tree ; 

 flowers whitish yellow. Found by Koenig in Ceylon. 



16. Capparis Magna. Stem arboreous, unarmed ; leaves 

 ternate, lanceolate ; corymbs terminating. This is a mid- 



dling-sized tree, with spreading unarmed branches ; flowers 

 large, white, in spreading corymbs. Native of Cochin-china, 

 on the banks of rivers. 



17- Capparis Falcata. Stem arboreous, unarmed ; leaves 

 ternate, sickle-shaped ; racemes loose, terminating. This is 

 a large tree, with spreading unarmed branches ; corolla 

 white, resembling that of the foregoing sort; stamina 

 eighteen. Native of China, near Canton. 



IS. Capparis Cantoniensis: Peduncles racemed ; stipules 

 thorny ; leaves ovate, acuminate, wrinkled ; stem shrubby ; 

 upright, branched ; flowers white, axillary, and terminating; 

 filamenta long. Native of China, near Canton. 



19. Capparis Torulosa. Peduncles subbiflorous, round, 

 terminating ; leaves lanceolate-oval, dotted with white 

 underneath ; pods round, linear, torulose. It grows into 

 a shrubby tree, and is a native of Jamaica. 



20. Capparis Longifolia. Leaves linear-lanceolate, dotted 

 with meal underneath. Native of Jamaica. 



21. Capparis Arborescens. Leaves lanceolate, ovate, per- 

 ennial ; stem arborescent. It rises with a woody stem twelve 

 or fourteen feet. Native of Carthagena, in New Spain. 



22. Capparis Racemosa. Leaves ovate, opposite, peren- 

 nial ; flowers racemed. It rises with a trunk about twenty 

 feet high, sending out many long slender branches, which 

 are covered with a brown bark, and garnished with leaves 

 like those of the Bay-tree, but longer, and deeply ribbed ou 

 their under side, standing upon long pretty footstalks oppo- 

 site ; the flowers are produced upon long branching, ter- 

 minating peduncles, each sustaining two or three flowers, 

 which are large and white, and are succeeded by pods two 

 or three inches long, the thickness of a man's little finger, 

 which are filled with large kidney-shaped seeds ; these pods 

 have a thick fleshy cover. Grows in Carthagena. 



23. Capparis Fruticosa. Leaves lanceolate, acute, crowd- 

 ed, perennial ; stem shrubby. This species rises with a 

 shrubby stem to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, sending 

 out many strong lateral branches, covered with a dark brown 

 bark ; the antherae are of a purplish colour, but the stamina 

 are white. Sent from Tolu in America. 



24. Capparis Conferta. Leaves lanceolate, alternate, on 

 very long petioles ; flowers crowded. It rises with a shrubby 

 stalk to the height often or twelve feet, sending out slender 

 horizontal branches, which are covered with a reddish bark. 

 Sent from Tolu in America. 



25. Capparis Triflora. Leaves lanceolate, nerved, peren- 

 nial ; peduncles three-flowered. This has slender shrubby 

 stalks, which rise seven or eight feet high, sending out many 

 woody branches, with very long nerved spear-shaped leaves ; 

 the flowers come out at the ends of the branches, three stand- 

 ing upon each peduncle ; they are small, white, and are suc- 

 ceeded by oval fruit. 



Capraria ; a genus of the class Didynamia, order Angio- 

 spermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one- 

 leafed, five-parted, oblong; divisions linear, erect, distant, 

 permanent, shorter than the corolla. Corolla ; monopetalous, 

 bell-form, five-cleft, nearly equal ; divisions oblong, acute, 

 the two upper ones more erect. Stamina : filamenta four, 

 subulate, inserted into the base of the corolla, shorter by 

 half than the corolla, the two lower ones rather shorter than 

 the others ; antherae cordate. Pistil : germen conical ; 

 style filiform, longer than the stamina ; stigma cordate, bi- 

 valve, equal. Pericarp ; capsule oblong-conical, compressed 

 at the tip, bilocular, bivalve, with a contrary partition, which 

 is doubled by the bending in of the edge of the valves. 

 Seeds: very many, roundish. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix ; five-parted. Corolla .- bell-form, five-cleft, acute. 



