82 ix. capparidacE/E (Oliver). [Ggnandropsis. 



upon the elongated gynophore. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled, with 2 multiovu- 

 late parietal placentas. Fruit and seeds as in Cleome. — Leafy herbs, with 

 digitate, 3-7-1'oliolate leaves, llacemes bracteate. Flowers usually white or 

 purple. 



A small genus, common to the tropics of both hemispheres, artificially distinguished from 

 Cleome by the insertion of the stamens upon the gynophore. 



1. G. pentaphylla DC. Prod. i. 238. An erect herb of 1 or 2 ft. 

 or sometimes shrubby below and taller, or reduced to 3 or 4 in. ; the extremi- 

 ties and young leaves usually thinly pilose or pubescent. Leaves 5-foliolate; 

 the upper 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate or oblanceolate, acute acuminate or 

 obtuse, denticulate serrulate or entire. Racemes with simple or 3-foliolate 

 bracts. Flowers white or purplish. Fruit narrow-linear, tapering into the 

 style, usually puberulous or minutely setulose, 2-4 in. long ; gynophore 

 f -2 in., with the scar of the stamens near the middle. Style variable in 

 length or stigma subsessile. — G. denticulata, DC. Prod. i. 238. Cleome 

 acuta, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 293. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ; Sierra Leone, E. Vogel ! Niger, Barter ! 



North Central. Kouka, E. Vogel ! Bornou, Oudneij. 



Nile Land. Seunar, Peikerick ! Schweinfurth ; Abyssinia, Sehimper ! and others. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Golungo Alto, and Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch ! Wawra. g 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, firs. Kirk and Metier ! Mozambique, Button ! 7~8 s - 

 lat., Speke and Grant ! 



Common in waste places, in fields, and about villages. It is used as a pot-herb. A 

 North African and Indian species, occurring also in the New World, but doubtfully iudige- 

 nous there. 



3. THYLACHIUM, Lour. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 107. 



Calyx closed at first, dehiscing transversely on expansion, the upper por- 

 tion falling away. Petals 0. Stamens numerous (40-70), free, inserted 

 upon a conical or short columnar torus. Ovary on a long gynophore with 

 4-10 multiovulate placentas, 1-locular or (owing to the development ot 

 spurious dissepiments from the placentas) submultilocular ; stigma sessile, 

 orbicular. Berry (described as) oblong, many-seeded. — Shrubs or Btnafl 

 trees. Leaves alternate, simple or 3-foliolate ; leaflets entire, panduriform <> r 

 slightly lobed. Flowers rather large, corymbose. 



A small genus confined to E. tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the islands of the E. coast- 



1. T. africanum, Lour.; DC. Prod. i. 254. A bush or small tree, 

 the bark of the extremities often punctate-scabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 glabrous, 3-foliolate or simple ; leaflets obovate oblanceolate or broadly ob- 

 long or oval, obtuse or scarcely acute, often mucronulate, entire (rarely Ion* 

 when simple), shortly petiolulate, articulated to the smooth or minutely verru- 

 culose petiole, which is also articulated at its base to the branch ; centra 

 leaflet 2-4 in. long, £-l| in. broad, the lateral usually considerably shorter- 

 Flowers usually in few-flowered terminal corymbs or upon short axili iir ) 

 shoots, about I in. diara. Calyx glabrous, turbinate or obovoid and api cU " 

 late before expansion ; persistent tube campanulate. Ovary sub-5-locular. 

 5-10-ridged or -angled, the ovules strictly parietal. Fruit not seen.— 



