CAPPARIDE^. 17 



Tkibe II. CAPPAEE^.— Fruit indehucent. 



3. TOY ARIA, R. P. 



(Bancroftia, Macfad.) 



Sepals, petals and stamens 8 (-7). Ovary sessile: placentas 6 (-8), united in the axis. 

 Pericarp baccate. — An annual herb, suffrutescent at the hose and scandent-diffuse ; leaves 

 ternatisect ; raceme terminal, elongated, cernuous at the top: 



10. T. pendula, R. P.—R.P.Fl.Peruv. 3. t. 209 : an extreme form; Sook. ic. t. 664. 

 — Bancroftia diffusa, Mac/. I — A glabrous plant, several feet high ; leaf-segments lanceolate ; 

 middle segment longer ; petals greenish-white, exceeding the calyx, but variable in their 

 shape and length, bluutish ; berry globose. The odour of the herb has been compared vtilh 

 that of Jpium. — Hab. Jamaica!, Macf., Pd., in the nocth-easteni mountain woods, 

 among shrubs by the side of water ; [Venezuela ! ; New Granada I at 6000' ; Peru]. 



4. CRAT.fflVa, L. 



Sepals and petals 4 : sestivation of the corolla open. Stamens 8 — indefinite. Berry 

 stalked : placentas 2. — Shrubs or low trees ; leaves ternatisect ; racemes terminal, often 

 polygamous. Petals of the American species obverse-lanceolate. 



11. C. gynandra, £. Segments of leaves ovate, pointed; stamens 20-24, inserted 

 upon the cylindrical disc in the fertile flowers ; berry ovoid-globose, bluntly mucronate. 

 — Pluken. Phytogr. t. 147. /. 6. — A tree, 12'-20' high ; leaf-segments variable, glabrous ; 

 petals whitish (6"'-8"' long), three times exceeded by the stamens, which in the male flowers 

 are inserted upon a short, conical disc ; gynophore growing out to a great length ; berry 

 size of a pigeon's-egg. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, common in the plains ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; 

 [Mexico!, New Granada!, Guiana!]. 



12. C. Tapia, L. Segments of leaves broadly ovate, acuminate; stamens 8-16 ; berry 

 globose, not mucronate. — Piso, Bras. p. 69. — A tree, about 20-30' high ; leaf-segments 

 much larger than in the preceding species ; berry size of a small orange. — Hab. Jamaica, 

 on the banks of salt-ponds, Macf.; [Guiana!, Brazil]. 



5. CAPPARIS, L. 



Sepals and petals 4 : sestivation of corolla irabricative. Stamens 8 — ^indefinite. Fruit 

 stalked : placentas 2. — Shrubs or trees ; leaves undivided, entire. 



The American species are without prickles : all the West Indian ones present four glands 

 in the bottom of the calyx and opposite to the sepals. 



Sect. I. PseudocraTjEVa. — Calyx ^-partite: segments valvate. Stamens usually B, 

 inserted upon a short, columnar disc. Berry ovoid. 



IB. C. ferruginea, L. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous above, powdery-pubescent, with 

 stellate down beneath ; flowers corymbose, small ; segments of calyx (1"' long) subulate, 

 blunt at the top ; berry ovoid-globose, downy, double the length of the gynophore. — Br. 

 Jam. t. 28. f. 1 ; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 149. — C. octandra, Jacq. — A shrub, dwarfish 

 and compact, or a shrubby tree, 10'-20' high ; branches and infiorescence leprous and to- 

 mentose with appressed down; leaves 3"-4" long : petiole 4'" long; corymbs stalked, axil- 

 lary near the top of branches : petals white, oval-oblong, shortly clawed, about 3"' long, 

 equalling the stamens; berry diam. 6"'-5"'. — -Hab. Jamaica!, common on the seashore, 

 M'Nab, March, Wils., Al.; [Haiti]. 



Sect. 2. Beeyniasteum. — Calyx i-partite, or i-fid: segments valvate. Fruit 



/silique-shaped, 

 14. C. amygdalina, Lam. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, glabrous above, leprous beneath ; 

 flowers corymbose ; calyx (l"'-li"' long) four times shorter than the downy corolla : lobes . 

 lanceolate, blunt, convex and leprous on the back ; stamens 16, exserted. — Br. Jam. t. 27. (/ 

 /. 2; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 152.— C. Breynia, L., partim; Jacq. {non Sw. nee DC). — 

 A shrub, 8'-15' high ; branches and inflorescence covered with whitish-rufescent scales (not 

 downy) ; leaves 3"-4" long ; petiole 4"' long ; corymbs stalked, axillai-y near the top of the 

 branches; petals white, oval, very shortly clawed, about 5'" long, tomentose chiefly on the 



