226 BENGAL PLANTS. [Gynandrop 
bracts. Santal. Seta kata arak; Beng. Sada bari 
ansarisha, arkahuli; Hind. Charota, karaila, huhil. 
52. Capparis Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, erect, decumbent, or climbing, unarmed or with 
stipulary thorns; leaves simple, rarely 0. Flowers usually white, 
often showy. at 4, free, 2-seriate, imbricate, or the outer pait 
valvate. Petals 4, sessile, imbricate. Stamens numerous, Vey 
rarely definite, inthe directly on the thalamus at base of gyno 
phore. Ovary sisi on a long gynophore, 1-4-celled; stigm® 
sessile; ovules many on 2-6 parietal placentas. Fruit ee 
indehiscent, rarely saivdlad dehiscent. Seeds many, imbedded 
pulp ; cotyledons convolute. 
Flowers few :—- 
Flowers supra-axillary, 2-4, the serially superposed pedicels o! of une 
length ; ait Regia -oblong to broad-ovate, young shoots and — | 
rusty pubesce bie es ouas ; 
Flowers ae . ce solita: 
eaves oie broad ads ‘© ln lanceolate, glabrous ; fruit smooth; 
hot 
Lanica. 
Howers 1-& On a short shoot .......,...:c0+..-s0essse0s+ceootPle a often 
erie orbicular, floccose ee white pabeeey ens fruit rib yl | 
dehiscing ; flowers always solitary ...........- spinosa var. leucop 
Flowers numerous, in umbellate corymbs ; leaves vie ‘ous -— von 
orymbs simple, sessile or short-peduncled ; stamens many ; ee 
large as a pea ‘ie 8); 
Corymbs arranged in sm terminal panicles ; Seal few ( ee 
fruit as large as a joe 
ee ee 
81. Capparis norripa Linn, f.; F. B. L. i. 178; E. D. © a6 
C. zeylanica F. I. ii. 567 (not of oe . 
In thickets and ayy everywher . | 
A climbing shrub. Vernac. Libin, bagnai. 
i ag 
S.-W. Bengal and Orissa, on dry stony ground. 
A rigid, wiry, much-branched shrub. Beng. Kalu ker® 
83. Capparis sprvosa Linn. var. LEucopHYLLA Hook. * 
Thoms.; F. B. I. i, 173 
Tirhut, Bettiah. 
