16 CAPPARIDE^. 



leaf-segments. The gynophore is 3"-3" long, but as it does not grow out with the capsule, it 

 is always shorter than this ; the diagnosis of authors (" gynophore exceeding the capsule ") is 

 wrong, and taken from immature states j the ripe capsule is often 4" long. 



a. Ovary and capsule glabrous . — C. heptaphylla, Sio. Ohserv. C. spinosa, Macf. 



j8. SiBartniana. Ovary and capsule glandular. — Willd. Sort. Berol. t. 18. — C. spinosa, 

 Sw. Observ. C. heptaphylla, HO., Macf. — Hab. Jamaica !, common in waste places ; S. 

 Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad !, &^acA ; [range through the whole of tropical America. In the 

 Brazilian C. spinosa, L. (Lond. Jonrn. of Bot. 2. p. 330), the capsule is longer, and as long 

 as the gynophore]. 



4. C. Houstoni, B. Br. Glandular-pubescent ; stipules and petioles prickly ; segments 

 of leaves 5-3, elliptical-lanceolate ; bracts ovate ; stamins scarcely exceeding the purple co- 

 rolla ; ovary shortly stalked, and capsule 6-12 times longer than the gynophore. — Martyn, 

 Hist. t. 45. — C. heptaphylla, Mey. Fl. Esseq. ! C. cubenais, Rich. Oub. — Richard published 

 an excellent exposition of the distinctive characters of this confused species, but he did not 

 recognize K. Brown's older name, illustrated by Martyn's good figure. The chief character is 

 the short gynophore, only 2"'-4"' long in the flower, and not excrescent afterwards. The 

 habit is similar to the preceding, — Hab. Jamaica, Soust.; [Cuba !, Guiana !]. 



5. C. polygama, L. Glabrous; segments of leaves three, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate ; 

 bracts suppressed; stamens a little exserted from the whitish corolla; capsule subsessile, 

 tapering at the base. — SI. t. 124./. 1 1 Jacg. Jmer. Fiat. t. 262./. 73 : a leaf. — C. serrata, 

 £. C. triphylia, Desc. (Fl. 1. t. 44 : erroneously exhibiting yellow flowers). The name 

 alludes to the upper flowers, which are said to be often stenle and tetrandous. The leaf- 

 segments vajry in breadth, and in the margin either entire or serrate. — Hab. Jamaica !, JOist., 

 M'Nab, Alex., Wils., common ; [Panama ! to Goyaz I and Guayaquil !]. 



6. C. aculeata, ii. Glandular-puberulous ; stipules prickly; flowers axillary, small; 

 segments of leaves three, elliptical, cuneate at the base ; stamens included ; capsule subsessile, 

 glabrous. — A diffuse annual ; leaves broader than in the preceding, subentire ; flowers (2'" 

 long) scattered : pedicel filiform ; capsule 14"-2" long : seeds muricate. — Has. Caribbean 

 Islands ; [Martinique I, Guiana]. 



7. C. procumbens, Jaeq. Glabrous, procumbent; leaves not divided, lanceolate, 

 pointed, quite entire; bracts conform, almost exceeded by the distant pedicels; stamens 

 equalling the yellow coroUa; capsule subsessile. — SI. t. 123./. 1; Jacq. Amer. Fid. t. 181. 

 : — Diffuse, usually spithameous ; leaves about 6'" long ; petals 2'" long, purple on drying ; 

 capsule 8'" long, apicdated by the filiform style: valves convex. — Hab. Jamaica!, Disi., 

 M'Nab, March, common in dry, sandy pastures ; [Haiti]. 



Sect. 4. Ranmanissa. — Disc reduced to a ring of glands. Stamens indefinite. 

 Petals shortly clawed. 

 8*. C viscosa,.Z. (ex. syn. Martyn). Glandular; segments of leaves 3 (-5), obovate- 

 lanceolate, equalling the petiole ; petals obovate, yellow ; stamens about twenty, equalling the 



corolla ; style' short ; capsule rough with glandular hairs, sessile : valves convex, striated. 



Martyn, Hist. t. 25. — Polauisia, DG. [ex. synon.). P. isocandra, W. A. : this does not pro- 

 perly belong to the North American and Mexican Polanisia, which forms another section 

 of the genus, distinguished by a unilateral disc, and by long-clawed petals. — Hab. Natu- 

 ralized in Jamaica I, S. Kitts I, Nevis !, S. Vincent ! ; [introduced from the Old World, where 

 it ranges from Southern China ! to Senegambia]. 



2*. MOBXNGA, Juss. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 10, inserted upon a. cupnliform disc : anthers unilocular. 

 Capsule silique-shaped, raedianioide, trivalved.— A tree ; leaves decompositi-pinnatisect : pa- 

 nicles axillary. 



9*. m. pterygosperma, Gartn. Five of the stamens sterile ; capsules triquetrous : seeds 

 three-winged.— Zfe«i. Fl. 4. t. 16 ; Desc. Fl. 1. t. 27.— A low tree, 12'-20' high • leaves 

 three times pinnatisect, about 1'- 2' long: segments spathulate or elliptical, blunt ;' petiole 

 bearing glands at its ramifications ; flowers whitish; capsule nearly 1' long. Hab. Natu- 

 ralized and common in Jamaica !, Macf. ; S. Kitts !, S. Vincent ! ; [introduced from the Old 

 World, where it ranges from the East Indies 1 to Senegambia!]. 



