CAPPARIDACE^E. 59 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Also gathered by Gardner, No. 5355, 

 and by Sellow.) Distinguished from the ordinary form only by its 

 more elongated thecaphore. 



3. Capparis Sandwichiana, DC. 



Capparis Sandwichiana, DC. Prodr. 1, p. 245 ; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 

 59 ; Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Bonite, t. 55. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands: on Diamond Hill, Oahu; and on the 

 coast of Kauai and Hawaii. (First collected by Menzies in Van- 

 couver's Voyage.) Matia, Society Islands ; where it was gathered in 

 Beechey's Voyage. 



This is distinguished from G. spinosa (which is sometimes unarmed), 

 by its longer petioles (only one-third shorter than the blade) and its 

 elongated, club-shaped fruit, 2h inches long and half an inch in thick- 

 ness, raised on a stipe of 3 inches in length. — The letter-press answer- 

 ing to the plate above-cited, is not yet published. 



4. Capparis Richii, Sp. Nov. 



C scandens ; stipulis spinosis brevibus uncinatis inter dum nullis; foliis 

 ovato-oblongis nunc lanceolatis seu lineari-lanceolatis subaeuminatis 

 basi obtusis subcoriaceis, novellis cum ra.mulis calycibusque ferragineo- 

 puberulis, adultis glabris subcoriaceis; pedicellis 5 seriatim supra- 

 axillaribus petiolmn suba3quantibus ; floribus parvis; staminibus cir- 

 dter 12. 



Hab. Feejee Islands ; the narrow-leaved forms from the Muthuata 

 Mountains, and Direction Island. 



Stem woody, climbing, smooth, the branches slender, minutely fer- 

 rugineous-pubescent when young, armed with very short and stout 

 hooked prickles in the place of stipides, which, however, are nearly 

 wanting in some of the broader-leaved specimens. Leaves very 

 variable, or diverse even upon different branches of the same stem, 



18 



