120 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
shorter than the leaves. Роше under ‘5 in. in diam., crowded at the ee d i 
branchlets. Sepals ovate-rotund, concave, glabrous. Petals Tory tins ellip B ee 
Stamens 8, the filaments equal. Gynophore shorter than the filaments ; wal А ; rui 
globular, slightly narrowed to the base, 1 in. in diam., glabrous, wit to 8 seeds im- 
mersed in scanty pulp. үз 
South Andaman Island, near the beach; Kurz, King’s Collector. 
A species allied to С. Luzoniensis, Turez. Bull. Soc. Mosc., 1854, IL, p. 324. 
Рглте 187. 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 188. 
ÜAPPARIS 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 1۰3 to 1:8 in., petiole ۰8 in. 
Panieles terminal, lax, the flowers umbellulate on the ultimate branches, Sepals 4, concave, ` 
 distichous; the outer pair orbicular, very сопсауе; 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. S/amens 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. Sed solitary, beaked. 
South Andaman Island; Kurz, King’s Collectors. 
A species remarkable in the genus for its one-seeded fruit. . 
Pirate 133, Capparis ambigua, Кам 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. 
` RoYDsIA, Rozb. 
Nat. Ord. Capparideæ, | 
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 cylindric 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-seeded. Seed erect, cotyledons 
fleshy, unequal, longitudinally folded, the larger embracing the smaller. 
PLATE 139. 
-Roypsta Scorrecursn, King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 297. 
Nat, Ord. Capparidee. 
Scandent, glabrous, except the minutely pubescent inflorescence and sepals. Leaves 
De _ membranous, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, narrowed to 
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