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pore at the apex a pellucid clammy fluid. Peduncle axillary, 
of the same length as the petiole, subtetragonal, purplish, 
- glanduliferous, few-flowered : pedicels articulated on the 
peduncle, terete, green. Flowers showy, white, fragrant. 
Sepals 4 ; the two outer the smallest ; all of them roundish- 
concave, thickish, glabrous, during aestivation imbricated, with 
a small glandule at the base of each. Petals thrice the length 
of the sepals, obovate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, re- 
flected, caducous. Stamens numerous, 2 inches in length, 
capillary, white, caducous. Alibastrum globose. Thecaphorum 
more than two inches in length, filiform, angulated, purple. 
Ovary oblong : stigma sessile, excavated. Silique about 6 
inches in length, terete, glabrous, torose where the seeds are 
situated, fleshy, opening ere it quits its attachment to the 
stem, by two valves, which are gradually rolled back from the 
apex to the pedicel allowing the seeds successively to drop out : 
seeds many, reniform, in two rows, imbedded in a scarlet fleshy 
pulp. 
This tree, according to Jacquin, is known among the French 
Creoles of Martinique, by the name of Pois Mabouia, or 
Devil's bean. The root is large, yellow, fleshy, and the taste 
strongly resembles that of the Horse-radish. An infusion of 
it, has been recommended, as a specific in dropsy. 
‘2. Capparis ferruginea. Ferruginous Caper-tree . 
Leaves lanceolate acute petiolate subglabrous above 
paler and stellato-tomentulose beneath as also the 
branchlets, peduncles axillary raceinoso-eoryinbose, 
stamens 8, berry subglobose. 
C. octandra, Jacq. Am. 160. t. 100. — Browne , 247. t. 28. f. 1. 
— C. ferruginea, Swartz, Obs. 208. 
HAB. Common along the sea-coast. 
FL. March — May. 
A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height ; branches compressed 
at their extremities, lepidoto-tomentulose, rufescent. Leaves 
petiolate, lanceolate, with the apex sharp, acute at the base, 
entire, subglabrous above, paler and stellato-tomentulose be- 
neath. Peduncles axillary, subterminal, shorter than the leaves, 
incano-stellato-tomentulose, bearing several small white inodor- 
ous flowers in a corymb-like raceme : pedicles two-thirds of an 
inch in length, tomentulose. Sepals 4, deltoideo-lanceolate, 
acute spreading persistent, each furnished at the base with an 
erect tooth-like minutely pubenilous viscid glandule. Petals 
4, roundish, concave, slightly clawed, caducous. Stamens usually 
8, erect, length of the corolla. Thecaphorum about one-third of 
an inch in length, terete, stellato-tomentulose. Ovary spherical: 
stigma sessile. Fruit shortly stalked, subrotund, size of the 
