X. CAPPARIDACE^. 
Roydsia.] 
121 
to obovate elliptic acuminate, narrowed at the base ; nerves 5 or 6 
pairs, prominent beneath 3-5 to 4 in. long, 1*5 to 2*25 in. wide; 
petioles -6 in. long. All glabrous. Flowers in racemes, axillary 
or forming a terminal panicle. Racemes 8 in. long dense-flowered. 
Sepals 6, velvety on both sides refiexed, *i in. long; linear oblong. 
Stamens 20; filaments equal not compressed. Stigmas 3, globular. 
Fruit unknown. Hab. Forests, Selangor, Sempang, Semangkok 
Pass. Province Wellesley on a rock (Kunstler) rare. Distrib. 
Burma. 
(2) R. Scortechinii King, lx. 397; Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. v. 
120, pi. 139. 
A climber, glabrous with pale bark. Leaf oblanceolate shortly 
acuminate to broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate, narrowed to the 
base, membranous; nerves 6 or 8 pairs, rather fine, elevate beneath, 
5 to 6 in. long, 1*5 to 2'5 in. wide; petioles *75 in. long. Flowers 
in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles about 6 in. long. Sepals 6, 
linear-oblong, refiexed or tomentose on both surfaces, - i in. long. 
Stamens 30 ; filaments unequal compressed. Gynophore very 
short. Stigmas 3 ovate. Fruit ovoid smooth yellow, 1*5 in. 
long, -i in. through. Hab. Forests. Selangor, Ginting Bidai. 
Perak, Larut, rocky jungle at 300 to 800 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
4 . CAPPARIS, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs erect tomentose or climbing often with stipular 
thorns. Leaves simple. Flowers white or pink often showy. 
Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series. Petals 4, sessile imbricate. 
Stamens indefinite inserted on the torus at the base of the long 
gynophore. Ovary 1- to 4-celled; stigma sessile; ovules many or 
2 to 6, on parietal placentas. Fruit fleshy. Seeds many imbedded 
in pulp. Species 125, all warm climates except N. America. 
Flowers in simple umbels or racemes axillary. 
Fruit globose. 
Flowers axillary solitary; leaves 1 in. long 
narrow ....... 
Flowers umbellate terminal; leaves 2 in. long 
Flowers umbellate axillary; leaves 2 in. long 
elliptic ....... 
Flowers racemose large; leaves 5 in, long; 
fruit 3 to 4 in. . 
Fruit globose 175 in. through; leaves 4 to 5 in. 
long. 
Flowers supra-axillary in rows of 2 or 3. 
Leaves large 5 by 3 in. 
Leaves 6 by 3 in. strongly nerved 
Fruit elongate 4 to 7 in. long .... 
Fruit elongate 3 in. long . . . .* 
Flowers in a terminal panicle of umbels, small 
(1) C. Larutensis 
(2) C. diffusa 
(3) C. sepiaria 
(4) C. Scortechinii 
(5) C. Kunstleri 
( 6 ) C. micracantha 
{7) C. perakensis 
( 8 ) C. Finlaysoniana 
(9) C. cucurbitina 
<10) C. paniculata 
