Ritckiea.] IX. CAPPARIDACEjE (OLIVER). 101 



Petals elongate, considerably exceeding the sepals, varying from 4 linear- 

 oval, with a very long claw, to 8 or 20 narrow-linear, wavy, 1-2 lines in 

 breadth. Stamens indefinite. Ovary oval-oblong, usually more or less dis- 

 tinctly 4-8-sulcate, glabrous, 1-celled with 2, 3 or 4 placentas, or with' the 

 placentary plates nearly dividing the cavity. Jtipe fruit not seen.— R. erecla, 

 Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit, 216. tt. 19, 20. R. polypetala, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 

 5344. 



Var. a. Petals 4. 

 W. |8. Petals 8-20. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Dr. Kirk! Dahomey, Burton! Niger, 

 Barter! Accra, T. Vogel ! Abbeokuta, Irving I Fernando Po and Old Calabar, Mann ! 

 Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Zenza do Golungo, Angola, Dr. Welwilsch ! 

 In the origiuai specimen of R. erecta, I find 8-9 petals, not 4 only as figured in Fl. Nigri- 



ncre are two imperfect specimens in the Kew herbarium, with 5-foliolate leaves, one may 

 prove a variety of R. fragran* ; the leaflets are elongate-oval, acuminate, narrowed to the 

 ase, about 8 in. long. It is described as a small erect-growing shrub, with white flowers 

 V iger, Barter). The other is similar to it, but the rather numerous lateral veins are 

 ? earl y parallel and unite in a distinct undulated intramarginal vein. The flowers are too 

 ""perfect for analysis (Sierra d. Crystal, Mann). 



Order X. MORINGACE^l (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, with a short, cup- 



p ha ped tl 'he and unequal, imbricate, at length spreading or reflexed segments. 



petals 5, similar in form to the calvx-lobes ; 2 upper smaller. Stamens 5, 



alternating with 5 staminodes or 'l0, declinate ; filaments free, inserted in 



ne margin of the disk ; anthers 1-celled, dorsifixed. Ovary 1-celled, stipi- 



ate .; style terminal, slender; ovules indefinite, anatropous, pendulous, on 3 



Fnetal placentas. Capsule siliquiform, 3-6-angled, 3-valved, many-seeded. 



y eds rat, 'er large, with or without wings, exalbuminous ; radicle superior.— 



fees with 2-3-pinnate leaves, clustered at the ends of the branches ; leaflets 



• . vate or obovate-oblong, often caducous, or the leaves reduced to the 



god rachis. Panicles ample, hoary or glabrous, of rather large whitish 



P y ellow or red flowers. Capsules 6-20 in. in length. 



Jti p Sma j!i a " d anomalous family of doubtful affinity, based upon the single genus of 3 or 4 



* Monnga. Coufined to' India, E. tropical Asia, and warm regions between. 



1- MORINGA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 430. 

 Character that of the Order. 



U^ "dually present at flowering. Seeds 3-alate \. M. pterygosperma. 



at fl . t,ced to their jointed, 2-3-pinnate rachis, or leaflets few 



"flowering. Seeds not winged 2- M - a P tera - 



seen ?• P te rygospenna, Gartn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 478. Of this I have 

 0l »y a cultivated specimen from Senegambia. It is of Indian origin. 



lerL* 1 * a Ptera, Gartn.; DC. Prod. ii. 478. Leaves I ft. or more in 

 j 8 th ! with or without a few scattered obovate or oblauceolate leaflets, f-f 



a CnV Panicles 9 in - t0 l ft -> axillar y; flowers P aIe yel p 



* ft. long. Seeds 3-gonous, unappendaged. 



