very deci iduous. 
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NIEBUHRIA, DC. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, with a cylindrical tube, the lobes valvate, 
deciduous. Petals none. Torus elongated. Stamens numerous, 
inserted below the apex of the torus. Ovary long-stalked, 1-celled, 
with numerous ovules on the 2 placentas. Berries long-stalked, 
containing 1 or few reniform seeds.—Little trees or shrubs, un- 
armed, with 1-3-foliolate leaves and solitary or corymbose flowers. 
zoe = puberulous-rough ; petiole very slender ; leaflets 
. N. variabilis. 
Quite § pisbeoas : petiole very ‘slender ; leaflets thin chartaceous . N. Siamensis. 
1. N. variabilis, Kz.—Shrub (?), the younger parts and branch- 
lets onphigh b puberulous ; leaves very variable in size, shape, and 
even nervature, 1-3, rarely 2-foliolate, on a 1-1} im. petiole (or 
if 1-foliolate, aiseat sessile), from linear to oblong- and cuneate- 
lanceolate, very shortly petioluled, blunt or bluntish apiculate, 
mucronulate, more or less scabrous on both sides and more so along 
the midrib beneath, coriaceous when full grown ; flowers and fruits 
unknown. 
Has.—Ava.—SS. = Ca (?) 
2. N. Siamensis, Kz.—An evergreen tree or shrub, all parts 
quite glabrous ; leaves very similar to those of the precedin pecies, 
3- or only exceptionally 4..foliolate, on a slender smooth petiole 7-14 
in. long ; leaflets linear-oblong, cuneate at the base, very shortly 
petioluled, 1-2 in. long, very blunt or retuse with a mucro, entire, 
chartaceous, quite glabrous, fuscescent in drying, the nerves very 
thin ; flowers whitish, rather small, nodding, on smooth slender 
pedicels 1-14 in. long, corymbose- racemose along the terminal 
shoots ; ovary glabrous, ovoid-oblong, on a slender glabrous gyno- 
phore about an inch long ; fi aments flexuose, glabrous ; berries 
ovoid-elliptical, apiculate at both ends, the size of a PORE elabrous, 
obsoletely wrinkled ; seeds very few, densely granular: 
Has.—In the adjoining Siamese province of Radbooree.—Fl. Fr, Apr.-May. 
CAPPARIS, L. : 
Sepals usually 4, rarely 5, in 2 pa the foremost one usually 
larger and galeate. Petals usually 4, ae icate, er i pions 
* wereial or many 0 ovules ; stigma sessile, erry more or 
on stalked, globular to elongate. Seeds 1 or several, imm ersed in 
pulp, reniform. —Shrubs or trees, often scandent, Srickly or un- 
armed, with simple leaves. Sapels prickly or setaceous, sometimes 
