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G)/mfidropsis.] xi. CAPPARiDEiE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 171 



gate stalked ; valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds 

 remform, black, scabrous. 



, J- <*• Pentaphylla, DC. Prodr. i. 238 ; leaflets broad-obovate acute or ^ 

 ODtuse entire or serrulate. W. dc A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. Cat. 6964 ; Cleome 

 pentaphylla, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. \2Q.—Rheede HoH. Mai. ix. t. 34. 



Abundant throughout the warm parts of India and all tropical countries, 

 .met, branched, 1-3 ft. Leaflets 1-2 in. Flmcera ^-| in. diam., white or purplish, 

 glutinous racemes ; bracts 3-loliolate. Capsules 2-4 in., nearly glabrous, striated. 



3. NXEBUKRXA, DC. 



_ 1 rees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves 1-5-foliolate ; stipules setaceous. 

 pff^r^ ^°l^*^^ or corymbose. Calyx-tiihe ovoid; limb 4-cleft, valvate. 

 tf, t c '^^"^^* indefinite, united on the gynophore at about the level of 

 z! rP of calyx-tube ; filaments filiform, exserted. Om?^ stipitate, 1-celled ; 



l-«p ff T^^Ii °^ ^ parietal placentas ; stigma subsessile. Berry ovoid, 

 eeaed. iieed large ; cotyledons fleshy involute.— Disteib. Species about 



8. tropical African and Asiatic. 



J- *■ linearis, DC. Prodr. i. 244; glabrous, leaves 3-5-foliolate, leaflets 

 W i,4r^ linear or lanceolate, flowers racemed. Wall. Cat. 6975; 

 an'ptJ, o^r^''^''- 23; Wight Ic. t. 176; Hook. Ic. PL t. 124. Capparis 



alp?! ' o- ^^^^- '^y 238. C. linifolia, Poxb. HoH. Peng. 41. Crataeva 

 apetala, 6Ve«flr. ^ysUi. 448. 



A Im ^f "^ °^. '^® Carnatic, Both, Wight, &c. 

 minutP?'' ^''•''! ^'""'^ P'"*'^ S^'^^y- Xea/e<« 1-2 by 4-1 in., equalling the petiole of the leaf, 

 I-2ir t^"- ^' **^»'"tly petiolulate; 5 and linear in young plants. Racemes 

 RloboJ , ^'"^'' few-flowered. Calyx * in., persistent. Berry i-| in., ovoid or sub- 

 6 oDose, l-3-8eeded ; stalk l-lj in. ' 





4. MSBRUA 



bv ad?V°^i *'^"^s. Zeaws simple. Fhwers corymbose. Calyx-tuhe hned 

 calvY 1 k ' °®^ 4' valvate. Peto& 4 (in the Indian species), smaller than the 

 jjx-iobes, ovate, inserted on the edge of the disk. Stamms many, inserted 



calvTr i^k^ '*' valvate. retals 4 (in tlie incuan 



yx-iobes, ovate, inserted on the edge of the disk. ^^ ., - ■ , ^ 



or 2 ppVi^v ^ gynophore, filaments exserted. Ovary long stalked, 1-celled. 

 Placpnt ^ *^6 cohesion of the placentas ; ovules many, on 2-;4 panetal 

 fleshv f^ -P«^^^ fleshy, elongate, moniliform, 1- or more-seeded. Cotyledons 

 '' ^'^^olnte.— Disteib. Sneciea about 20. trooical Asiatic and Aincan. 



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ovate?; f'^'^aria, H. f. & T. ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves broad- 

 «hortt<. ? X ,0f oblong and obtuse or retuse, corymbs terminal or on lateral 

 •"^ots, petals lanceolate acute. 



I)elhS''*[ H^^^i-AYA, and Centual India, abundant : var. 2 . Ganqetic plain, about 



^ "na Agra. 



*Uted !m '^°?^^ climber. Leaves A-3 in. Flowers §-1 in. long, white. Calyx-tuhe 

 ^*een tlfJ*™^,' *^°«t h as long as the limb. Berry 2-5 in., deeply constricted be- 

 ••»n-tnU ^^^?,~M. oblongifolia of Arabia and Africa differs only m the cyhndric 



Skbuhria ^'*^?' glabrous and glaucous except the margins of the calyx-lobes, 

 ^od, 0^ ^'^°ana and oblon£rifolia^DC. Prodr. \. 244; WaU. Cat. 6976; Wit A. 



ieabra 



^'^ ^olhni °^*'if^lia, Cam6. in Jaca. Voy. Bot. 22, t. 23, 24 



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