10. CAPPARIS CATHCARTI JJ.msl ex Gamhk, Dnrjeeling List KD. 2.. C (1696).
Natural order Ciipparidefe.
A large scandent slirub, glabrous, tlie brandies arnieJ with strong stipular t)ionis;
haves cliartaceoua, shining above, dull beneatli, ovate-acute the base .shortly cunoate,
edges slightly incurved when dry, midrib and 8-jugat,e secondary asconding nerves
rather prominent beneath ; petiole 1-25 cm. long, luniina 8—12 cm. long, 4—G cm.
wide; umheh paniculate towards ends of branchea, leafy j Jloivcrs Z cm. aoro^s,
pedicels 2 cm. long ; scpah ovate-rotund, puberuloas externally ; petals thin, ohovate,
margin faintly crenulate; stamens 2S—36, the filaments equal; (jynr.phore. 8-5 em.
long, as long as filaments; ovary ovoid apiculate; fniit globular with slisrhtly
umbonate tip, 2-5 cm. across; seeds 4—5, imbedded in scanty pulp. Capparis (sp.
allied to C. floribunda) Hook. f . ^ Thorns. I'lor. Brit. Jnd. i. 180 (1870); Gamble,
Darjeelivg List, 5 (1878). C. sikkimensis Kurz MSS. in Herb, Calcutta.
SIKKIW: near Darjeeling; Cathcart ia Herb. Kew. Darjeeling District, 4,000 feet-
E'trzi Kurseong; Clarke 13854! Gyabari, 4,000 ft.; Gamble 1037! 13udamt;im, 3 000 f t . -
Gamlle 983^! '
A species most nearly allied to C. Jlorihinda "Wight, from S. India, the Andamans
and the Philippines, but with larger flowers, and more numerous stamens. The i)lant
described in this work, vol. v. p. 119, aa C. andamanica, is eonspecific with C. Jlorihunda.
PLATE 10.—Capparis Oathoarti, 1, specimea from Darjeeling District at 4,000 ft., eollootcd
by K-axZy—cf natural size; 2, bud, partly laid open,—natural site; 3, aepiil, sesn from side,—o/
tiolural tize; 4, sepal from witluB,—o/- naturul eise; 5, petal, with stamens of oiiter row from a
youug flower; 6, stamens in bud, after removal of perianth; 7, stamoiis in opened flower,—c/
natural iisf; 8, ovary with gynophore x 2; 9, fruit,—o/ rialural s/s;-; 10, iiuit, in section,—t»/
ml lira! s!:e.
D. P.
11. HERITIERA DUBIA Wall, ex Kurz in Jonrn. Bot. xii. Go (1874).
A tree; leaven oblong or oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, petiole rather stout,
lepidote, 12—20 mm. long, base cuneute, rounded or obtuse, apex obtuse or acute or
acuminate, 10—15 cm. long, 4—8 cm. wide, when young sparingly beset with
tawny hairs but soon quite glabrous above, densely silvery-lepidote and sparingly
brown-punctate beneath; panicles axillary much shorter than the leaves, pubescent with
longish, rusty hairs; flowers email, urfeolate-campanulate, brownish-green, pedicel slender
4 mm. long; calyx 6 mm. long, puberuloua externally and internally, shortly 4-lobed,
lobes obtuse or subacute; siaminal column considerably shorter than the calyx, tip
slightly angled, antliers 7—10, sessile ; mature mrpeh compressed, cuaeate-oblong,
4 cm. long, tbickly -winged towards the tip on one side, smooth, brown.
KHASIA HILI.S; at low elevations, Dc Slim (ic. in Herb. Calcutta)! Gailahy, .307"!
There is often a cimous unwillingness to admiS that the genua Heritkra include»
other than littoral species. A. a matter of fact it is, so far as India is concerned,
less of a htlornl than an inland genns; only two of the fiye Indian Boeeies are
littoral. ^
The light to specific rank was vindicated for E. mmrophyUa Wall, by Kurz in
Journ. ÄI. A«!/, jlii. pt. 61 (1873) and more emphatically by the same author
lu Joum. Bot. xii. 66 (1874) and again in For, Fhr. Brit. Burma i. 141 (1877); Kurz's
contention was practically admitted in the Gardener's Chroniele (1886). i. 81 and since then
has been thoroughly established by King, {Jom. Ae. Soc. Beug. Ix., 2, 80) by
Pierre (Flor. For. Coeh.-O/m. t. 204) and by Hooker (Bot. Mag. t. 7193). This is
a purely inland species.
The right to specific rank for another Wallichian inland Eeritm—B. acuminata
WalL—was equally vindicated by Kara in Journ. Bet. xii. 65 (18741 This species
like U. rmeropbjlla, was nominally published ia Voigt'» Bortuz SuUrhaml,
Oakutteusw (1845). Kurz, however, was not, in the absence of specimen,, in a
position to discover that B. Papilio Bedd. (Fhr. Sgtvat. t. 218), from Travancore and
the t a m a f i c is the same tree as tiie earlier published B. aemmmta Wall which
was originally found by Wallich's Collector DeSilva in Silhet and has since bee..
coUected m Cachar, (Bliuban range, 0. Maun! Naraindar Punji, N. G. Youua ! Jhiri
Ghat, P™^«-.') as well as in the lower Lushai Hills (Lengti, Prater!). It
IS a large, often lofty tree, 5 - 6 feet in g i r t h ; the vernacular name in Cachar is
" A k h a r . "
The species now described and figured was in 1874 only represented by a
manuscript drawing made under Wallich's supervision and named by that botanist
E. iulut. This also Kurz recogniscd in 1874 as a valid species, even though no
specimens were^ available. Some years later Gallatly, collecting in the Khasia hills
obtained flowering specimens of a Beriti^ra with leaves in shape like those of
B. ae.«,ata but « f l e r i n g from those of that specie, in not being 3-nerved at the
base •The leaves of Gallatly's specimen, dlBer from those of l l iulia as figured
by Wallich in being narrower and acuminate, and the flowers too difllcr in having
subacute not obtuse, »»ly-lobos. The stamlnal columo is however exactly like thai
o( B. as figured by Wallich and the calyx-lobos are ereet, not reLed as in
B. ' ^ a t a In the i^owers examined by me the stamens are usually 7 - 8 verv
rarely 10. The species has, as Kurz ha, remarked, a considerable resemWanoe ' t o ¥
lüboraU and is obviously the most nearly related of all the inland, non-saline
Beritieras to that species.
I t may be well to note here that ff lUtorali,, which is the species usually met
with on the Indian coasts, has never been found anywhere on the coast, of Bengal
although It ha» been the object of very careful and prolonged search in o r d e ri
possible, to verify the statement to the contrary which is made bv M a s t ,J
Fler. Brit. Inä i. 363. E. n,i«r Eoxb. (Balanopteris minor Gaertn.) named ^ L , "
in the same work is stated to occur inland. This is equally not the c . s e - i t Z
not extend beyond the mangrove swamp, of the Sandribuns. It is the " S d "
which gives its name to that characteristic portion of the Sano-etio Delta ^
to be equally common in the corresponding portion of the IiTawaddv Delta ? T f
occur nowhere else either in India or Burma. ' "
A ™ . EOY BOT. QARC. OALC., T o t . I X.