58 CAPPARIDER. | Berberis. 
some species is astringent and used by dyers. Yellow dye is obtained 
from the wood of several species. 
BERBERIS, L 
Flowers hermaphrodite. oan 6, with 2 or 8 appressed bracts, 
imbriecate, in 2 series. Petals as many, imbricate. Stamens 6, 
free ; anther-cells opening by Ares Ovary 1-celled with a few 
basal ovules. Fruit a few-seeded berry.—Erect shrubs or small 
trees, with pinnate or fascicled simple leaves. Flowers yellow, usually 
in —. 
B. Nepalensis, Spreng.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 109; Bedd. Sylv- 
Madi. 12; Brand. For. Fl. 12.—An evergreen almost ‘simple shrub, 
3-6 feet high, all parts glabrous ; ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, 4-12 
ft. long, the leaflets in 6 to 10 pairs with an odd one, 1-2 in. long, 
more or less ovate or rotundate, senile or nearly so, coar sely spiny- 
toothed and similarly acuminate, very coriaceous, glossy ; flowers 
yellow, on 2-3 lin. long somewhat curved pedicels, forming rather 
dense, shortly oie racemes usually several together at the 
ends of the | eafy branches ; berries oblong or globose, § sappy, violet, 
— 3-3} in. long, containing e 2-4 seeds. 
aB.—Tenasserim. 
CAPPARIDEZ, 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Sepals 4, 
free or connate, valvate or imbricate, rarely open in : the bud. Petals 
as many, rarely” 2 or none, hypogynous or seated on the disk, imbri- 
eate or open in bud. Stamens 4 or more, hypogynous or perigy- 
“nous, or at “8 Sl of, or on,a long or short — Disk 
none or 
d.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees, erect or climbin ; often armed 
3 = : — spiny stipules, the leaves simple or digitately 2-9-foliolate. 
or in racemes, corymbs, or umbels. 
An order of little practical importance. The flower-buds of the 
caper (Capparis spinosa) form a pickle: and might be grown in Prome 
or sary Twenty-five species, are recorded from Burma, the greater 
part of which are spiny climbers. 
a Sepals united at base into , : 
leaves 1-8-foliolate Uncen Bee: = Niebuhria. 
Posigt teeth w ca se Che Ae ee eg te oe 
