178 XI. CAPi>ARiDE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Capparis. 



bracts at the base, and at the top a tuft of the same probably enclosing a leaf-bud ; 

 buds immature, each in the axil of a subulate bract ; pedicel J in. Sepals 4, imbricate 

 ia pairs. 



Sect. III. Flowers seriate in vertical lines on the branches. 



21. C. multiflora, H. f. ds T. ; branches glabrate, thorns 0, leaves large 

 glabrous broad-lanceolate or oblong taper-pointed, flowers small, sepals 

 glabrous. 



Tropical valleys in E. Nipal, and Sikkim ; Bhotan, Griffith; Hookhoom valley in 

 BiKMA, Griffith. 



A large woody climber; branches long, slender. Leaves 6-12 by 2-5 in., thin, base 

 acute, pale beneath ; upper 2-4 in., often bractlike and very deciduous ; petiole J^ in. 

 Flowers \-% in. diam., supra-axillary to the leaf or bracts, forming a leafy or naked 4- 

 or more-flowered raceme ; pedicels |-4 in. Petals obovate-oblong. Ovary glabrons. 

 Fruit pisiform or larger, 1-3-seeded. 



22. C. borrida, Linn. f. ; DC. Prodr. i. 246 ; young leaves buds and 

 shoots brown-tomentose, thorns stout broad-based recurved, leaves ovate 

 obovate or oblong acute obtuse or mucronate at length shining above, 

 petals oblong ciliate, ovary glabrous acute. Wall. (7a«. 6981; W. dc A- Prodr. 

 26; Wight Ic. t. 173; Dalz. <jk Gibs. Bombay Fl. 10. C. zeylanica, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 567 {not of Linn.). C. formosa, Wall. Gat. 6982 A. C. acu- 

 minata, Willd.; Wall. Cat. 6990 G {not A or B). C. tenuiflora and quad- 

 riflora, DG. l.&. 247. C. erythrodasys, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 99. Capparis 

 sp. Griff. Ic PI. Ind. Or. iv. t. 698. 



Gahqetic valley, &c., as far N. as Saharunpore ; Western Peninsdla, Chitta- 

 GOHG to PEsn ; Ceylon. — Disteib. Java, Philippines. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves 1^-4 by f-2 in., tip pungent, at length shining above 

 and usually much reticulate. Flowers 1 J-2 in., white or purplish ; buds globose ; 

 pedicels supra-axillary, 4-1 in., upper longer. Fridt 1-lJ in. diam., obovoid or sub- 

 globose, smooth, obtusely 4^angled, red-brown, many-seeded. * 



23. C. acuminata, WHU. ; DC. Prodr. i. 247 ; young shoots and leaves 

 beneath brown-tomentose, thorns straight or curved, leaves at length gla- 

 brous broad-ovate obtusely acuminate, buds globose downy, flowers small. 

 C. zeylanica, W. ds A. Prodr. 25 {not nf Linn., but perhaps of DC. Prodr.). 



Western Peninsula, Gaenatic? Klein in Serb. Wight. 



Erect?; branches slender. Leaves 1^-2 by 1-1J_ in., obtusely acuminate, mem- 

 branous ; petiole J-J in. Flowers 2-4 in a series, "white, axillary ; pedicels |-1 in. 

 downy. — The specimen in Herb. Wight, is the only one known. It differs from U. hor- 

 rida in the thorns and small white flowers. The original ticket bears the manuscript 

 -name ferruginea of Klein, corrected by himself to acuminata, Willd., no doubt from 

 corresponding specimens sent to Europe ; the locality is unknown. 



24. C. olacifoUa, R.f. & T. ; young branches brown-pubescent, thorns 

 straight or slightly curved, leaves glabrous ovate-lanceolate taper-pointed, 

 tip acute obtuse or mucronate, flowers large, buds ovoid glabrous, sepals 

 oblong ciliate, ovary pubescent. C. acuminata. Wall. Gat. 6990 A, B {not 

 G, nor of Willd.). Capparis, 1149, Griff. Itin. Notes, 199. 



Tropical Himalayan valleys, from Nipal, Wallich, to Assam, Griffith, &c. 



An erect shrub, 6-8 ft. ; branches long, leafy, old glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2^ in., 

 base rounded or subacute, shining above, midrib of young pnberulous. Flowers I4 in." 

 diam., (white, anthers blue) 2-3 in a series, axillary ; buds acute, glabrous or puberulous. 

 Sepals margined. Petals narrowly obovate-oblong, pubescent. Pruit | in. diam., globose, 

 sharply be^ed, black, smooth, shining. ' ' - 



