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TH ALA M I FLO RiE, 
cinereo-lepidose. Racemes axillary, and terminal, sub-simple, 
few-flowered : flowers pedicelled, at first, white, but afterwards 
purple : pedicels tetragonal, lepidose. Calyx of 4 sepals, as in 
C. Breynia. Petals oval, externally lepidose, about one-third 
longer than the sepals. Stamens 20-22, with the filaments 
villous at the base : anthers yellow. Thecaphorum an inch in 
length. Ovary terete, lepidose. 
5. Capparis torulosa. 'Torulose Caper-shrub. 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate coriaceous petiolate smooth 
above lepidose beneath as also the branchlets, pedun- 
cles few-flowered racemoso-corymbose, stamens 28, 
silique very long. — De Cand. 
Swartz, Prod. 81. — FI. hid. Occ. 932. 
HAB. Hilly Situations. Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. August. 
A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branchlets angulose, lepidoto- 
punctate, of a ferruginous colour. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
ovato-lanceolate, entire, smooth above, covered with minute 
argenteo-ferruginous scales beneath. Flowers at the ends of 
of the branchlets, about six together, corymbose, white, rather 
large : peduncles tetragonal and sulcatecl, lepidose, generally 
2-flowered. Calycine sepals ovate, acute, externally ferrugineo- 
lepidose. Petals roundish-oval, slightly scaly externally; inter- 
nally purple. Stamens 4 times the length of the petals : fila- 
ments purple, hairy at the base : anthers yellow. Style long, 
white: stigma truncated, lepidose. Silique 10-12 inches in 
length, pedicelled, terete, subglabrous, torulose, 2-valved. 
7. * Capparis longifolia. Long-leaned Caper-shrub. 
Leaves linear acuminate shortly petiolate glabrous 
above lepidose beneath as also the branchlets. 
Pink. Phytoy. t. 327. f. 6. — Swartz , Prod. 81. 
HAB. Common in situations where the C. cynophal- 
LOPHOra grows. 
FL. ? 
I consider this to be merely the early barren shoots of the 
C. cynophallophora. It is very common along the sea-shore, 
and I never have observed it in flower. 
