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1915 
A scandent, armed shrub, apparently entirely glabrous. 
Branches pale greenish-yellow when dry, terete, stout, slightly 
zigzag, glabrous, or the younger ones very slightly pubescent. 
Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, 8 to 9 cm long, 3 to 4 cm 
wide, pale yellowish-green when dry, brittle, the upper surface 
very smooth and strongly shining, the lower paler, dull, base 
rounded, apex retuse; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of 
the midrib, slender, indistinct, scarcely anastomosing, the retic- 
ulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 5 to 7 mm long; spines 
stout, recurved, about 2 mm long. Inflorescence fascicled or 
umbellate, axillary, apparently few-flowered. Flowers not 
seen. Peduncles in fruit 3 mm long or less, each bearing from 
2 to 4, long-pedicelled fruits, the pedicels about 1 cm long, the 
androgynophore as long as the peduncles. Fruit globose, about 
8 mm in diameter when dry, the pericarp somewhat wrinkled, 
glabrous, pale, shining. 
Palawan (Arricife Island, near the southern end of Palawan), Bur. Sci. 
21583 Escritor, August 14, 1913. 
A species with much the appearance of Capparis sepiaria Linn., but 
with much larger, quite glabrous, coriaceous, more numerously nerved 
leaves. 
CAPPARIS PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex suberectus, 2 ad 3 m altus, partibus junioribus plus 
minusve pubescens, ramis ramulisque inermis vel subinermis; 
foliis oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12; floribus subterminalibus, 
solitariis vel binis ; fructibus longissime pedunculatis, ellipsoideis 
ad globoso-obovoideis, circiter 1.5 cm diametro, extus pube- 
scentibus. 
A suberect shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the branches somewhat droop- 
ing or subscandent, unarmed, or with only few, scattered, short 
spines. Branches terete, glabrous, dark-colored, the branchlets 
yellowish-olivaceous, terete, slender, rather densely pubescent 
with short hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, 9 to 11 cm 
long, 3.5 to 4.5 cm wide, chartaceous, base broadly rounded, 
narrowed in the upper one-third to the rather sharply acuminate 
apex, pale olivaceous, rather dull, and glabrous or very slightly 
pubescent on the upper surface, the lower surface much paler, 
slightly pubescent on the midrib and nerves; lateral nerves 10 
to 12 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anastomosing, the 
reticulations lax; petioles densely pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long. 
Flowers subterminal, in the uppermost axils, solitary or in pairs, 
