40 THALAM1FLOKJE. 



cinereo-lepidose. Racemes axillary, and terminal, sub-simple, 

 few-flowered : flowers pedicelled, at first white, but afterwards 

 purple : pedicels tetragonal, lepidose. Calyx of 4 sepals, as in 

 C. Breynia. Petals oval, externally lepidose, about one-third 

 longer than the sepals. Stamens 20-22, with the filaments 

 villous at the base : anthers yellow. Thecaphorum an inch in 

 length. Ovary terete, lepidose. 



5. Capparis torulosa. Torulose Caper-shrub. 



Leaves ovato-lanceolate coriaceous petiolate smooth 

 above lepidose beneath as also the branchlets, pedun- 

 cles few-flowered racemoso-corymbose, stamens 28, 

 silique very long. De Cand. 



Swartz, Prod. 8LFI. 2nd. Occ. 932. 



HAB. Hilly Situations. Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. August. 



A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branchlets angulose, lepidoto- 

 punctate, of a ferruginous colour. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 ovato-lanceolate, entire, smooth above, covered with minute 

 argenteo-ferruginous scales beneath. Flowers at the ends of 

 of the branchlets, about six together, corymbose, white, rather 

 large : peduncles tetragonal and sulcated, lepidose, generally 

 2-flowered. Calycine sepals ovate, acute, externally ferrugineo- 

 lepidose. Petals roundish-oval, slightly scaly externally; inter- 

 nally purple. Stamens 4 times the length of the petals : fila- 

 ments purple, hairy at the base : anthers yellow. Style long, 

 white: stigma truncated, lepidose. Silique 10-12 inches in 

 length, pedicelled, terete, subglabrous, torulose, 2-valved. 



7. * Capparis longifblia. Long-leaved Caper-shrub. 

 Leaves linear acuminate shortly petiolate glabrous 

 above lepidose beneath as also the branchlets. 



Pluk. Phytog. t. 327. f. 6. Swartz, Prod. 81. 



HAB. Common in situations where the C. CYNOPHAL- 

 LOPHORA grows. 



FL. ? 



I consider this to be merely the early barren shoots of the 

 C. CYNOPHALLOPHORA. It is very common along the sea-shore, 

 and I never have observed it in flower. 



