CAPPARIDE^. 19 



18. C. verrucosa, Jaoq. Leaves leathery, glabrous, oblong, tapering towards the 

 bluntish top, subcordate at the base, shortly petioled : axillary gland oboToid or abortive ; 

 peduncles ftw-flowered ; calyx i-partite (4'"-6"' long) : segments roundish, large : petals 

 otovate, glabrous, fvnce exceeding the outer sepals and exceeded as much by the subinde- 

 finite stamens ; fruit oilong, tubercled, equalling the gynophore. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. 1. 148 ; 

 Desc. Fl. 1. 1. 29. — C. amplissima. Lam. C. Baducca americana, L. — ^The habit and form of (, 

 leaves agree with C. enstachiana, but the larger calyx, and especially the thick and short 

 fruit, present distinctive characters. Sepals of the same breadth, but the exterior only 4'", 

 the interior 6'" long ; petals white, 8"'-9"' long ; stamens about 24 ; fruit l"-2" long, 6"'- 

 10'" diameter. — Hab. Trinidad!, Lochh.; [Haiti, S. Thomas I; Mexico, Venezuela!, New 

 Granada!]. 



19. C. frondosa, Jacq. Leaves leathery, glabrous, oblong, usually pointed,' loug- 

 petioled : veins prominent on both sides ; corymb terminal ; calyx i-lobed (1"' long) : lobes 

 roundish, smaU, about four times exceeded by the glabrous corolla ; stamens indefinite, 

 eqimlliny the corolla. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 153. — C. commutata, Spreng. (ex loco). C. 

 cuneata, DC. (ex descr.). — A tree-like shrfib with a few stems (unffivided sometimes to 20' 

 above the ground : Pd.), altogether 7'-25' high; leaves much larger than in the preceding, 

 10"-3" long, usually minutely cordate at the base, but variable in breadth and shape : 

 petiole at length often 2"-l" long ; axillary glands minute or none, and those in the calyx 

 much less developed than in any of the preceding species ; corymb subcontracted, terminatinft 

 a stiff peduncle (the end of the branch) ;■ petals pale greenish-purple ; fruit short, l"-2" 

 long, 4"'-6"' diam., about double the length of the gynophore. — Hab. Jamaica!, M'Nab, 

 Pd., in woods; Trinidad!, Pd., Cr.; [Haiti, Guadeloupe!; Venezuela!, Eio ilagdalenas !]. 



6. MORISONIA, L. 



Calyx rupturing. Petals 4. Stamens 20-6. Ovary 4-Iocalar by spurious dissepiments, 

 stalked. Berry glohose. — Trees; \es.vBS glabrous, leathery, entire ; corymbs lateral. 



The stamens, inserted upon a disc, are not monadelphous ; but though the habit of Mori- 

 sonia agrees perfectly with Capparis, its reduction, proposed by Swartz, is not justified, 

 and its peculiarity might rather serve as an argument for the ulterior division of Capparis ; 

 as the thin dissepiments, which (analogous to those of Crucifiree) in M. amencana, L., divide 

 the 4 parietal placentas into 8, do not occur in Capparis ferruginea, where the fruit has a 

 similar form, but the ovary is unilocular with 2 placentas. 



20. ni. americana, L. Leaves oblong, eoMolor, at length devoid of lepidote scales ; 

 stameps about 20.^ — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 144 j Desc. Fl. 7. t. 532. — A low tree, about 15' 

 high ; branchlets and inflorescence leprous ; leaves shining, 4"-6" long, bluntish : petiole 

 thickish, often 1" long ; corymbs shortly stalked, few -flowered ; calyx closed in the ovoid 

 bud, bifid by rupture, about half the length of the white corolla ; petals leprous on the ex- 

 terior, downy on the interior side, obovate, 6'" long, a little exceeded by the stamens : those 

 equalling the gynophore, hairy below ; ovary longitudinally striated, constricted below the 

 large, round^ umbilicate stigma ; berry size of a small orange (H"-2" diam.). — Hab. Domi- 

 nica !, Imr., S'. Lncia !, Anders., on the calcareous seashore ; Trinidad !, Loclch. ; [S. Thomas, 

 Desirade !, New Granada]. 



21. in. Imrayi, Cfr.in.sp.). Leaveselliptical,fokitei, siarungahoMe, pale-glaacous be- 

 neath hj a lepiiote covering; stamens 8 (-6). — A timber tree : branchlets bearing scales; 

 leaves 3"-2" long, with a bluntish point, discolor,, covered beneath with minute, confluent 

 scales ! midrib and principal veins devoid of scales, prominulous beneath : petiole 4"'-3"' 

 long; corymbs subsessile, lateral, few-flowered^ leprous; calyx leprous, closed in the ovoid 

 bud, probably at length 4-fid, bearing four glands on the outside of the depressed disc, to 

 the- upper margin of which the corolla and stamens are inserted ; petals 4, villous within ; ' 

 anthers oblong ; ovary abortive in our specimens, the flowers of which are not yet opened. — 

 Hab. Dominica !, Imr,, " Bois dore," in the mountains. 



7. STEEIPHOMA, Spring. 



(Stephania, DC.) 



Calyx bifid. Petals 4. Stamens 6. Oiiary bilocular by a spurious dissepiment, stalked. 



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