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without the hooked stipules which distinguish C. spinosa. The flowers have small petals, which are white, each 
having a pink spot at the base. The stamens are very long and white, with blue anthers. 
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V OTHER SPECIES OF CAPPARIS. 
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y C. RUPESTRIS Sm et THE ROCK CAPER TREE. 
, This species is a native of Crete, where it grows on rocks by the sea side. The flowers are large, with white 
petals and numerous stamens, which have red filaments and yellow anthers, like those of C. spinosa. The leaves, 
however, ai’e rounder and more fleshy, and they are destitute of the hooked stipules. This plant also requires a 
greenhouse in England. 
CHAPTER XII. 
BYTTNERIACEiE Brown. 
Essential Character. — Calyx sometimes naked, sometimes girded 
by an involucre. Sepals more or less connected at the base, constantly 
valvate in aestivation. Petals five, hypogynous, alternating with the 
sepals, convolute in a:stivation, of various forms, rarely unequal or 
wanting. Stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals, or double. 
triple, or multiple that number ; filaments monadelphous, or variously 
divided at the top, some of them are sometimes sterile ; anthers two- 
celled. Carpels four or five, distinct, or joined into one ovary, and 
crowned by as many distinct or connected styles. 
Description, &c. — In this order, including Sterculiacese, are many very interesting plants, one of the most 
important of which is the Theobroma, from which cacao, or cocoa, and chocolate are made. The Adansonia, or 
Baobab Tree, which is said to be the largest plant in the world, and the curious Hand Plant, also belong to this 
order. The trees belonging to the genus ■ Sterculia have veiy handsome foliage, but the greenhouse species have 
not very ornamental flowers. 
GENUS I. 
REEVESIA Lindl THE REEVE SIA. 
Lim,. Syst. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, imbricate 
in sestivation, tomentose. Petals five, unguiculate, convolute in esti- 
vation. Stamens joined into a long filiform tube. Anthers fifteen, 
sessile, collected into a little head, two-celled, bursting lengthwise. 
Description, &c. — There is only one species in this 
an eminent botanist, who was long resident in China. 
Ovary sessile, within the antheriferous head. Capsule stipitate, woody, 
obovate, five-angled, five-celled, five-valved, without any central axis. 
Seeds two in each cell, winged at the base. ((?. Don.') 
genus, which is named in honour of John Reeves, Esq., 
I — REEVESIA THYRSOIDEA Lindl. THE THYRSE-FLOWERED REEVESIA. 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg., t. 1236 ; and our fig. 1, in PI. 11. I acuminated, entire ; petioles articulated. Flowers in compound, ter- 
^ Specific Character. — Leaves alternate, exstipulate, lanceolate, I minal, or axillary racemes. 
Description, &c. — This species is an evergreen tree, a native of China, with white flowers, and smooth green 
leaves. It was introduced in 1824. It should be planted in a conservatory, as it is too large for a pot. It flowers 
in January. 
