120 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
shorter than the leaves. Flowers under '5 in. in diam., crowded at the extremities of the 
branchlets. Sepals ovate-rotund, concave, glabrous. Petals very thin, elliptic, obtuse. 
Stamens 8, the filaments equal. Gynophore shorter than the filaments; ovary conical. Fruit 
globular, slightly narrowed to the base, 1 in. in diam., glabrous, with 6 to 8 seeds im- 
mersed in scanty pulp. 
South Andaman Island, near the beach; Kurz, King’s Collector. 
A species allied to C. Luzoniensis, Turcz. Bull. Soc. Mose., 1854, II, p. 324. 
Pate 137. Capparis Andamanica, King. 1, flowering specimen; 2, ripe fruit; 3, section of ripe fruit: of natural 
size; 4, flower; 5, the same dissected ; 6, anthers; 7, pistil: enlarged. 
PLATE 198. 
CAPPARIS AMBIGUA, Kurz For. Flora Burmah, I, 65. 
A large scandent shrub, the older branches armed with short sharp recurved thorns, 
the young parts puberulous. Leaves membranous, variable, broadly lanceolate to elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse or shortly acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces glabrous; main nerves 
8 to 12 pairs, spreading, indistinct; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1:3 to 1:8 in., petiole *3 in. 
Panicles terminal, lax, the flowers umbellulate on the ultimate branches. Sepals 4, concave, 
distichous; the outer pair orbicular, very concave; the inner pair rotund, smaller and, 
thinner than the outer and less concave. Petals 3 or 4, smaller than the sepals, obovate. 
thinner than the sepals. Stamens about 30: anthers ovate, much shorter than the filaments. 
Gynophore less than half as long as the filaments; ovary narrowly ovoid, acute, many 
ovuled. Berry elliptic, the apex shortly beaked, the base slightly narrowed, about '7 in 
long, pulp scanty. Seed solitary, beaked. 
South Andaman Island; Kurz, King's Collectors. 
A species remarkable in the genus for its one-seeded fruit. 
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PrarE 138. Capparis ambigua, Kurz 1, flowering branch; 2, branch with ripe fruit; 3, section of ripe fruit; 4 
seed: of natural size; 5, flower dissected (s-sepals, p-petals); 6, anthers: enlarged. 
Roypsta, Rozb. 
Nat. Ord. Capparidee. 
Large unarmed woody climbers, branches spotted white. Leaves simple. Flowers 
yellow, racemed or panicled. Calyx 6-partite, segments 2-seriate, tips slightly imbricate. 
Petals 0. Stamens indefinite, inserted above the base of the short cylindrie gynophore. 
Ovary ovoid, 3-celled from the prolongation of the placentas; styles 3, subulate, or single 
and undivided; stigmas small, terminal; ovules many, 2-seriate in the angles of the cells. 
Fruit fleshy, with a woody 3-valved 1-celled endocarp, 1-зееде4. Seed erect, cotyledons 
fleshy, unequal, longitudinally folded, the larger embracing the smaller. 
PLATE 139. 
Roypsta бсовтеснізі, King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рі. 2, p. 397. 
Nat. Ord. Capparidee. 
Scandent, glabrous, except the minutely pubescent inflorescence and sepals. Leaves 
membranous, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, narrowed to 
