. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 4o6 Jamaica Caper Tree lar flower-stalks 5 to 12 mm. long; the 4 ovate to lanceolate sepals are pointed and about i cm. long; the 4 white petals are oblong, blunt, and about as long as the sepals, turning purple when old; there are 16 to 32 stamens, 5 cm. long or less, with filiform separate filaments, which are long- hairy near the base and purple; the ovary is borne on a smooth stalk 3 to 5 cm. long £uid ripens into a l
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 4o6 Jamaica Caper Tree lar flower-stalks 5 to 12 mm. long; the 4 ovate to lanceolate sepals are pointed and about i cm. long; the 4 white petals are oblong, blunt, and about as long as the sepals, turning purple when old; there are 16 to 32 stamens, 5 cm. long or less, with filiform separate filaments, which are long- hairy near the base and purple; the ovary is borne on a smooth stalk 3 to 5 cm. long £uid ripens into a long, linear drooping, torulose, pointed pod 3 dm. long or less, and about 6 mm. thick. The yellow wood is hard, with a specific gravity of about Capparis cynophallophora Linnaeus, usually a straggling shrub, rarely over 3 meters high, the only other Capparis growing within our area has smooth, strongly-netted veined leaves and smooth pods; it occurs in southern Florida and the West Fig. 358. — Jamaica Caper Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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