PLATE 10. 
10. Capparts Сатнсавті Hemsl, ex Gamble, Darjeeling List Ed. 2., 6 (1896). 
Natural order Capparideze. 
A large scandent shrub, glabrous, the branches armed with strong stipular thorns; 
‚ leaves chartaceous, shining above, dull beneath, ovate-acute the base shortly cuneate, 
edges slightly incurved when dry, midrib and 8-jugate secondary ascending nerves 
rather prominent beneath; petiole 1:25 em. long, lamina 8—12 cm. long, 4—6 cm. 
wide; umbels paniculate towards ends of branches, leafy; flowers 3 cm. across, 
pedicels 2 em. long; sepals ovate-rotund, puberulous externally ; petals thin, obovate, 
margin faintly crenulate; stamens 25—86, the filaments equal; gynophore 3°5 cm. 
long, as long as filaments; ovary ovoid apiculate; fruit globular with slightly 
umbonate tip, 2:9 cm. across; seeds 4—5, imbedded in scanty pulp. Capparis (sp. 
allied to б. floribunda) Hook. f. & Thoms. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 180 (1870); Gamble, 
Darjeeling List, 5 (1878). С. sikkimensis Kure MSS. in Herb. Calcutta. 
. біккім: near Darjeeling; Cathcart in Herb. Kew. Darjeeling District, 4,000 feet; 
Kurz! Kurseong; Clarke 13854! Gyabari, 4,000 ft.; Gamble 1037! Badamtam, 3,000 ft.; 
Gamble 9839! 
A species most nearly allied to C. floribunda Wight, from S. India, the Andamans 
and the Philippines, but with larger flowers, and more numerous stamens. The plant 
described in this work, vol. v. p. 119, as C. andamanica, is conspecific with б, floribunda. 
PrarE 10.—Cepparis Cathearti Hemsl. 1, specimen from Darjeeling District at 4,000 ft., collected 
by Kurz,—of natural size; 2, bud, partly laid open,—of natural size; 8, sepal, seen from side,—of 
natural size; 4, sepal from within,—of natural size; 5, petal, with stamens of outer row from a 
young flower; 6, stamens in bud, after removal of perianth; 7, stamens in opened flower,—of 
natural size; 8, ovary with gynophore x 2; 9, fruit,—of natural size; 10, fruit, іп section,—of 
natural size. 
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PLATE 11. 
11. HERITIERA DUBIA Wall, ex Kurz in Journ, Bot. xi. 65 (1874). 
A tree; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, petiole rather stout, 
lepidote, 12—20 mm. long, base cuneate, rounded or obtuse, apex obtuse or acute or 
acuminate, 10—15 ст, long, 4—8 cm. wide, when young sparingly beset with 
tawny hairs but soon quite glabrous above, densely silvery-lepidote and sparingly 
brown-punctate beneath; panicles axillary much shorter than the leaves, pubescent with 
longish, rusty hairs; flowers small, urceolate-campanulate, brownish-green, pedicel slender 
4 mm. long; calyx 5 mm. long, puberulous externally and internally, shortly 4-lobed, 
lobes obtuse or subacute; staminal column considerably shorter than the calyx, tip 
slightly angled, anthers 7—10, sessile; mature carpels compressed, cuneate-oblong, 
4 cm. long, thickly winged towards the tip оп one side, smooth, brown, 
Kuasta Hits; at low elevations, De Silva (ic. in Herb. Calcutta)! Gallatiy, 7 ! 
