62 CAPPARIDER. [ Capparis. 
5-6 in. long, abruptly and sharply ema membranous and 
a quite glabrous, vividly green ; stipules reduced to mere 
ints ; flowers small, white, on a 4-8 lin. long glabrous 
sonal arising by 4-5 in a line above the leaf-axils ; sepals glabrous, 
puberulous inside ; petals nearly 3 lin. long, floccose ; ; stamens 
numerous, aes: filaments white ; gynophore and ovary glabrous. 
Has t unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
ae Teak seat Martaban.—Fl. Apr.-May. 
5. C. disticha, Kz—A large, erect, bushy, dense shrub, 8-10 ft. 
high, the spreading branches as well as the leaves conspicuously dis- 
tichous, armed with thin, sharp, curved thorns, all parts glabrous ; 
bark black, smooth ; leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, usually 2-23, 
rarely up to 4 in. long, on a short, but slender petiole, rounded at 
base, abruptly and shortly acuminate, saan glabrous, net- 
veined ; flowers small, white, on 4-6 lin. long, glabrous, slender 
pedicels arising in a line from above the leaf-axils ; ; sepals pubes- 
cent peaiey le! along the borders ; gira unequal, about 2 lin, 
long, w oolly ; stamens 8, rarely 9 ; filaments white ; anthers 
nena a hee and ovary glabrous. 
Shen in the swamp-forests and in a localities of the 
fevsieadai- and Sittang-alluvium of Pegu and Marta’ in Prome.—Fl. 
Apr.-May. 
6. C. horrida, L. f. ; Brand. For. Fl. 15.—Nah-ma-nee-tanyet. 
—A large scandent shrub, armed with short laterally compressed 
curved thorns, the branchlets and younger parts all Sas Si an. ; 
leaves from ovate to ovate-oblong, rounded at base, on a 2-3 lin. 
long tomentose petiole, 13-2 in. long, acute, chartaceous, beneath 
more or less tomentose and glabrescent ; flowers about 1- ie 1 in. in 
diameter, on 6-8 lin. long rusty-tomentose rather thick “pedicels 
several together arising in A a lime above the leaf-axils; sepals 
rotundate, rusty-tomentose ; S etal white, soon turning rose- 
coloured or pinkish, slightly woolly inside - ; filaments Hlabnaiae 
white ; anthers blue ; gynophore pilose towards the base ; berries the 
size of a prune, oblong, red, many-seeded, long stalked. 
. _Haz.—Frequent in the mixed forests a: 
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7. C. crassifolia, Kz.—A leaf-shedding scandent shrub, armed 
with short recurved thorns, the younger branches and young leaves 
beneath = from a minute tomentum Pres oe ixed Ls 
‘sos ro coil aa isi ly fro: he 
cs nerves beneath arising mostly from near t 
base 5 eee le os eel, similar to those of C. horrida, on 
