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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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and plunged into a hot-bed, where they soon come up: when 

 a little advanced in growth, prick them out in separate small 

 pots ; then water and replunge them into the hot-bed till they 

 are firmly rooted, when they should be gradually hardened 

 to the full air. In June set them out, to remain till the 

 autumn, when they should be placed in the green-house, or 

 wherever they can have adequate protection, during winter. 



4. Zygophyllum Foetidum ; Fcetid Bean Caper. Leaves 

 conjugate, stalked ; leaflets obovate ; calix downy ; petals 

 jagged ; capsule roundish ; stem shrubby. This is a hardy 

 green-house shrub, flowering throughout the summer. The 

 leaves have a strong fox-like scent. Native of the Cape. 



5. Zygophyllum Maculatum ; Spotted-flowered Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, stalked ; leaflets linear-lanceolate ; petals 

 yellow with a red spot. Native of the Cape. 



6. Zygophyllum Coccineum ; Scarlet-flowered Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, on a fleshy stalk; leaflets cylindrical, 

 smooth ; capsule oblong. The stem is shrubby, ascending, 

 much branched, about a foot and a half high ; the petals red, 

 pointed. This plant, which all cattle refuse to eat, abounds in 

 the desert between Cairo and Suez. 



7. Zygophyllum Album : White Bean Caper. Leaves 

 conjugate, on a fleshy stalk ; leaflets obovate, downy and 

 hoary; capsule roundish, five-lobed. The stem is woody, 

 diffuse, much branched, and very leafy ; the petals white, 

 obtuse; crenate. Native of Egypt, Cyprus, Barbary, &c. 

 See the third species. 



8. Zygophyllum Morgsana ; Four-leaved Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, nearly sessile ; leaflets obovate, flat, 

 smooth ; stem shrubby ; capsule roundish, tumid, five-lobed. 

 This is a green-house shrub, flowering here during most part 

 of the summer. The branches are quadrangular ; flowers 

 large, yellow ; petals obovate, entire, streaked with purple at 

 the base. Native of the Cape. See the third species. 



9. Zygophyllum Sessilifalium; Sessile-leaved Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, sessile; leaflets obovate, flat, smooth; 

 stem shrubby ; capsule globose, undivided. Flowers droop- 

 ing, orange-coloured. This green-house shrub flowers in 

 July and August. Native of the Cape. See the third species. 



10. Zygophyllum Fulvum ; Tawny Bean Caper. Leaves 

 conjugate, sessile; leaflets obovate, flat, smooth; stem 

 shrubby ; capsule ovate, five-angled, acute. Native of the 

 Cape. 



11. Zygophyllum Spinosum ; Spinous Bean Cvper. Leaves 

 conjugate, sessile; leaflets linear, fleshy, smooth, flat above; 

 stem shrubby; permanent stipules hooked, spinous. Stem 

 bushy, shrubby, about a foot high, branched from top to 

 bottom ; the branches acutely quadrangular ; leaves nume- 

 rous ; flowers drooping, large and handsome, on longish, soli- 

 tary, lateral stalks; calix reddish; petals yellow, fading to 

 white, nearly or quite entire. Native of the Cape. See the 

 third species. 



12. Zygophyllum Microphyllum ; Small-leaved Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, somewhat stalked ; leaflets inversely heart- 

 shaped, smooth ; stem shrubby, with ascending branches ; 

 capsule roundish, abrupt, of five compressed lobes ; style per- 

 manent; flowers drooping, rather small, yellow. This is a 

 hard, small-leaved, rigid, much-branched shrub. Found at 

 the Cape. 



13. Zygophyllum Retrofractum ; Recurved Bean Caper. 

 Leaves conjugate, stalked; leaflets obovate, smooth; stem 

 shrubby, with spreading recurved branches ; flower-stalks 

 shorter than the leaves. Native of the Cape. 



14. Zygophyllum jEstuans; Surinam Bean Caper. Leaves 

 conjugate, sessile; leaflets obovate, abrupt; stem herba- 

 ceous, diffuse; stipulas five at each joint. Found at Surinam. 



1,5. Zygophyllum Lanatum ; Woolly-jointed Bean Caper. 

 Leaves ternate ; leaflets papillary beneath ; styles five ; stem 

 zigzag, woolly at the joints. The genus of this plant is 

 doubtful. Native of Sierra Leone. 



16. Zygophyllum Arboreutn ; Tree Bean Caper. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate ; stem arboreous. This is a very handsome 

 tree, forty feet high; the trunk being about six feet; the 

 head dense, widely spreading, and very ornamental ; clusters 

 axillary and terminal ; flowers large and handsome, scentless; 

 calix yellowish-green, smooth ; petals orange-coloured, round- 

 ish, emarginate, cleaved. When it blossoms, this tree affords 

 a most magnificent spectacle, from the innumerable flowers 

 covering the bright green leafy head. The natives give the 

 name of Guay-acan to this tree, the timber of which being 

 hard, is used for cabinet work. The trunk is said to harden 

 into stone by lying in the earth, being incorruptible ; which 

 seems to have arisen from its being found in a petrified state, 

 as wood, otherwise perishable, often may be seen in our owa 

 country. It flowers in July. Native of South America, on 

 the sandy shore about Carthagena. 



