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Stamens on the gynophore. Petals open in bud 2. Gvxaxdro ^ 



Tribe II. Cappareee. Shrubs or trees. Frttit berried or oftpsular. 



* Calyx tube lined by the disk, lobes valvate. 



Petals 0. Fruit OYuid 3. Nieruhria 



Petals 4. Fruit moniliform . ^ 4. M^RUA. 



Sepals 4, open in bud. Disk hemispheric 5. Cbat^va. 



Sepals 4, 2-8eriate, imbricate, or 2 outer valvate. 



Stamens 4-6, inserted high on the gynophore 6. Cadaba..^ 



Stamens 8-go, inserted at the base of the gynophore ... 7. Capi'ARIS. 



Sepals 6, 2-8eriate. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3 8. Koydsia. 



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Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-9-foliolate. Flowers racemed, yellow 

 rose or purple. /Se/x/Zs 4, spreading. Pe^a/^ 4, regular or ascending. ^^^",^1 

 4-8, sessile on the disk. . Ovari/ sessile or with a short gynophore jstji 

 short or ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Capsule oblong ^^.^-^J^J 

 valves 2 separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds reniiojin- 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 80, chiefly tropical. 



O. heptaphylla, L., a W. Indian species, is cultivated in India; it is a tall J 

 viscid annual, -with prickly stems, 7 leaflets, large purple flowers, and a long gy"*^P 



* Leaves simple. 

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pubenilous penninerved, bracts petiolate, stamens 6. Wall. ^^\y r^j 

 W. d; A. Prodr. 21 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 129 ; Thwaites Enum. 14 ; 01^^^^ 

 Trop. Afric. i. 76. C. cordata, DC. Ic.—Bium. Zeyl t. 100, f. 3. ''^- 



Western Peninsula from Behar and the Concan to Ckylon, in fields and ^ 

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Sttm 1-2 ft., erect, branched. Leaves 1-2 in., base rounded or cordate, -^^jj-; 

 \'\ in. long, dull purple ; racemes elongating in fruit. Petals long-clawedj ascen h- 

 Copmles 2-4 in., striate, subsessile or shortly stalked. Seeds rugose. 



2, C. papulosa, Steud. Nomeml. ed. % i. 382 ; hairy, often g^^^*^2 

 leaves ovate-cordate obtuse strigose papillose penninerved, bracts s 

 sessile, stamens 6. Oliv. FL Trop. Afric. i. 76 ; Edgew. I.e. vl 184. v^-> 

 ciUs, E Igew, in Jam n. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. 1212. '- 



Arid districts of Sindh and Western Punjab. — Distrib. Abyssinia, Kor ;, 

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f^tem 6-12 in., erect, branched, strong scented. Leaves 4-I4 in., lower '^"^"P*^ g](,o! 

 upper subsessile. -FZo«?€rs very small, pinkish at length dirty yellow ; racemes ^^.^^^ 

 gate in fruit ; bracts oblong, upper pedicels cbracteate. Capsules 1-1 4 i»-» s"^^^ . 

 very sleiider, finely striate. Seeds glabrous, granulate. - ■ " 



borblcular 



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Arid districts of Sindh and Western Punjab, Griffith, &c.— Distrib. Afigta^'^^' 



Persia, Arabia. 



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