nai>imris.\ IX. CAPPARIDBiE. 61 



15. C. humistrata (spreading on the ground), F. o. M. FrMjiti. v. 156. A 

 procumbent pubescent shrub, with terete, spreading, softly pubescent branches. 

 Stipulary spines setaceous-subulate, scarcely curved. Leaves f to l^in. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, mucronulate, chartaceous, margins slightly recurved, pale green ; 

 petioles short. Flower pedicel about fin. long, axillary, solitary, buds about 

 4 lines long. Sepals roundish, contracted at the apex. Petals scarcely exceeding 

 ^in., slightly pubescent near the base. Stamens about 30, ovary glabrous 

 apiculate. Fruit ? 



Hab.: Near the town of Stan well. 



16. C. Thozetiana (after M. A. Thozet), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 104. An erect 

 shrub resembling a Bossieea, glabrous or nearly so ; branchlets terete, slightly 

 flexuose. Stipulary spines 1 to If lines long, subulate, slightly curved. Leaves 



1 to 2in. long, If to 2 lines broad, linear, margins recurved, apex mucronulate, 

 base obtuse, on very short petioles. Flowers axillary, solitary, on pedicels of 

 about lin.; bud before expanding about 3 lines diameter, globose, inner sepals 

 obovate-cuneate ; much shorter than the petals. Petals 6 — 6 lines long, velvety- 

 pubescent beneath. Stamens 16 to 20. Ovary glabrous, very shortly obtuse- 

 apiculate. 



Hab.: Near Eockhampton. 



5. APOPHYLLUM, F. v. M. 

 ' (Plant leafless.) 



Flowers dioecious. Sepals 3 or 4, imbricate, 2 outside the others. Petals 



2 or 4, sessile, imbricate. Maleflower : Stamens 8 to 16, inserted on the short 

 torus with filiform filaments. Ovary none. Female flower : Stamens none, or 

 rarely 1 to 3. Ovary stipitate with a sessile stigma ; ovules 1 or 2, attached to 

 the sides of the cavity above the middle. Berry shortly stipitate. Seeds 1 or 2, 

 with a smooth testa and involute cotyledons. Leaves very few, small, alternate. 



The genus is limited to the following species, and differs from Capparis only in its dioecious 

 flowers and the usually solitary ovule. — Benth. 



1. il.. anomalum (strange appearance), F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 

 307 ; Beyith. Fl. Austr. i. 97. A shrub or tree, almost leafless, with cylindrical, 

 often pendulous branches, silky-white when young but soon becoming glabrous. 

 Leaves on the young shoots few, linear or linear-acute, 2 to 8 lines long and very 

 deciduous, or rarely above fin. long and more persistent. Flowers small, 

 fragrant, either growing singly along the young shoots or in short lateral racemes 

 or clusters. Petals 1 to If lines long. Sepals rather more than 1 line long, 

 pubescent. Petals unequal, as long as or longer than the sepals, pubescent inside 

 at the base. Fruit nearly globular, the size of a small pea. 

 Hab.: In the interior, Mitchell. 



Ordee X. YIOLARIE^. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate, 

 equal or unequal, with the lower one larger, or spurred or otherwise dissimilar. 

 Stamens 5, hypogynous or nearly so, the anthers erect and connivent or coilnate 

 round the pistil, sessile or on short filaments, the connective often very broad, 

 with the anther-cells opening inwards. Ovary free, sessile, 1 -celled, with usually 

 3 parietal placentas, and several or rarely only 1 or 2 anatropous ovules to each 

 placenta. Style usually simple, often thickened or curved at the top. Fruit a 

 capsule, opening in as many valves as placentas, or rarely an indehiscent berry. 



