CAPPA 111 DE£. 
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2. Cratasva tapia. Round fruited Garlic-Pear-tree. 
Stamens 8-16 inserted on a cylindrical disk half . 
the length of the petals and of the thecaphorum, 
berry globose, leaflets ovate acuminate unequal at the 
base. 
Plum. Gen. t. 21 — Pis. Bras. t. 69. — Mai us Americanos 
trifolia, fructu pomi aurantii instar colorato, Comm. hort. I. 129. 
t. 67. — Be Cand. Prod. I. 243. 
IIAB. Spanish-Town road: Salt-ponds. 
FL. May. 
A tree about 20 feet in height. Leaflets broad-ovate, suba- 
cuminate. Raceme terminal, at first corymbose. Peduncles 
about 2 inches in length. Flowers purpurascent. Calycine 
sepals spreading, deciduous. Petals 4, about an inch in length, 
rounded at the apex, with the claw long. Stamens about 16, 
declinate, about 3 times the length of the petals. Stipe of the 
ovary length of the stamens: stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit 
globose, size of a small orange. 
IV. Capparis. Caper -tree. 
Calyx 4-partite. Petals 4. Disk small. Theca- 
phorum slender. Stamens cc. Silique subbaccate, 
stipitate. — De Cancl. 
Shrubs; rarely trees. Leaves simple. With exception of 
the common Caper-tree (Cappahis spinosa), the buds and un- 
ripe fruit of which are very much esteemed in Europe as a 
pickle, no other of the species produces any thing, that man has 
been capable of converting to satisfy his wants, or gratify his 
appetites. — Name, from the Arabic Kubar, from which the 
Greeks made y.uwagis. 
-1. Capparis cynophallopliora. Bottle-cod root. 
Leaves glabrous coriaceous oblong shortly petiolated, 
axillary glandule subglobose, peduncles few-flowered 
shorter than the leaf, silique long terete fleshy. 
Browne, 246. t. 27. f. 1. — Jacq. Amer. 158. t. 98. 
HAB. Common on the plains. 
FL. After the rains, in May and October. 
A tree- like shrub, about 8 feet in height : branches long, 
virgate, flexuose, subterete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sub- 
distichal, petiolate, oblong, obtuse, or slightly emarginate at 
the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous : petiole 
scarcely £ an inch in length, terete, slightly channelled above. 
Axillary glandule small, subrotund, distilling from a minute 
