ft. 0. OAPPARIDE.®. 
105 
with horizontal lenticels. Wood white, moderately hard, close- 
grained. Pores small, numerous, in long radical strings bet- 
ween the fine, wavy medullary-rays, usually one or two rays 
without pores between the string. Faint, rather distant, con- 
centric lines which may be annual rings” (Gamble). Leaves, 
simple, l-l£ in., ovate or oblong, acute, obtuse or mucronate. 
Flowers yellowish white or greenish white, 1 in. diam. ; corymbs 
few-flowered, terminal ; bracts small, subulate. Sepals 
ovate ; claw of petals narrow. Petals 4, limb oblong, ovate; 
Stamens 4. Disk process | in. curved pink, smooth, fimbriate. 
Fruit cylindric, dehiscent, 1-1£ in. long, irregularly torulose ; 
pulp orange. Flowers October-March. 
Uses : — The leaves and root are considered deobstruent 
and anthelmintic, and are prescribed in decoction in uterine 
obstructions (Murray. 55.) 
91. C. farinosa. Forsk. h.f.b.i., i. 173. 
Habitat : -Dry places in the Punjab, at Multan and 
in Sindh. 
A straggling, much-branched shrub. Wood white, soft, 
even-grained ; Pores small, single or few or many in radial 
strings hetween the rays, there being usually a few rays without 
pores between each pair that contains them. Medullary rays 
very fine, regular, numerous. Leaves in. rarely 1 in., hoary, 
ovate or oblong, obtuse. Flowers as in C. indica, but petals 
very narrow, 4, spathulate. Stamens 5. Fruit hi. cylind- 
ric (Hooker, f. and Thoms. : — “Delessert’s leones represent 6 
stamens, we find 5 only. FI. B. 1. Vol. I, p. 173. 
Urn : — It is used medicinally in Sindh. 
92. Capparis spinosa, Linn, h.f.b.i., i. 173. 
Syn. : — C. Murrayana, Graham. 
Venn.: — Kabra, her (H.) ; ulra Kanta (Kumaon) ; Kaur, 
Kiari, bauri, ber, bandar, bassar, Kakri, Kander, taker, borar, 
Keri, Kaba, barari ^Pb.). ; Kalvari (Sind.) ; Kabar (Bom). 
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