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2i to 4 inches long, clothed with a ferrugineous pubescence when 

 very young, soon glabrous, rather coriaceous, reticulated, either ovate 

 or oblong-ovate and somewhat acuminate, or oblong-lanceolate, varying in 

 some specimens into lanceolate or even linear, the base rather narrowed 

 but obtuse, not in the least cordate : petioles 4 to 6 lines long, of the 

 narrower leaves only 2 or 3 lines long, ferrugineous-pubescent. Pedi- 

 cels about 5, inserted one above the other in the axil of the leaves 

 {supra-axillary), nearly the length of the petiole, and with the flower- 

 bud similarly ferrugineous-pubescent. Flower-buds not more than a 

 line in length, gibbous. Stamens apparently 12. Ovary on a long 

 stipe : placentae 4. Fruit unknown. 



A species of the group Eucapparis Seriates, which should be collated 

 with Capparis quiniflora, DC, from the northern coast of New Hol- 

 land, known only by a very brief character. It cannot be C. Jlexuosa, 

 Blume, since this, according to Hasskarl (Plantae Jav. Rar. p. 178) 

 has 38 stamens, while ours has no more than 12. For the details of 

 the flower I am obliged mainly to depend upon a drawing, executed 

 under the superintendence of Mr. Rich. Greatly as the leaves vary 

 in shape in the different specimens, I suppose that they all belong to 

 one species. At least, as they are not in flower, there are no means 

 of characterizing the narrow-leaved forms as a distinct species. 



5. Capparis aurantioides, Presl. 



Capparis aurantioides, Presl. Rel. Haenk. 2, p. 86 ; Walp. Repert. 1, p. 198. 

 0. nemorosa, Blanco, Fl. Filip. p. 438 ? 



Hab. Philippine Islands,. at Caldera, Mindanao; and Sooloo Islands. 



This also belongs to the division Seriales ; the pedicels, sometimes 

 five in number, being superposed above the axil. 



6. Capparis sepiaria, Linn. 



Hab. Small island of the Sooloo Sea. A widely diffused, East 

 Indian species. 



