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Js^ear streams in Malabar and Canaka ; cultivated elsewhere in India.— Uistk . 

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A spreading, iinanued, deciduous tree. Leaves long-petioled ; leaflets 3-6 by f""*;!..! 

 abruptly or gradually acuminate, pale beneath. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., '". ®^ °^ 

 corymbs. Petals ovate or oblong, ootuse or acute; claw \ as long as the htab. ^^ ^^^ 

 1-2 in. diam., many-seeded.— Very variable. Intermediates may be found *^*^^^®?° -^j^ 

 following varieties. The form of the ovary and fruit does not ^^^^'^P.^?^^^^??,? i j-j^e 

 that of the leaflets. Imperfect specimens of a Mergui species of Griffith, wita b 

 broad obtuse thick coriaceous leaves, may be different. ^ n N -ala, 



^ Var. 1. Nurvala; leaflets ovate-lanceolate taper-pointed, berry ovoid. 0. wun _ 

 Bam. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 122 ; Wall Cat. 6973 ; W, & A, Prodr. 23. 

 HoH, Malab. iii. t. 42. , _ ^^ 



^ Var. 2. BoxburqMi; leaves small ovate-lanceolate abmptlv acuminate, ber^ | 



bose. C. Roxburgfui, Br. in Denh. & Clapp. Travels, App, 224 ; W. & A. ^f^'^f.^.^ 

 IIooL Ic. PL t. 178. C. odora, religiosa, and unilocularis, Ham. Ic. ; WalL Cat. o. 



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Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flov^ers sohtm ^^^^ ^ 

 boseorracemed. jSemls 4, unequal, 2-seriate, 2 outer valvate. Fetais ■*' ., 

 rarely 0, clawed, hypogynous. Bisk equalling the petal-claw, ^^^^jj^ 

 shaped or spathulate, with a tubular claw. Stamens 4-6, unilateral ou 

 slender gynophore ; filaments filiform, exserted, spreading, ^^wentas. 

 stalked, 1-celled; stigma sessile; ovules many, on 2-4 parietal pia ^^ 

 Fridt fleshy, slender, cylindric, berried or dehiscing tardily ^P^^^ila- 

 2 valves, which leave the pulpy placentas. Seeds subglobose, ^^^ . i ^xA 

 ginous; cotyledons convolute.— Distrib. Species about 12, tropic 

 subtropical African and Asiatic. 



1. C. trlfollata, W. ik A. Prodr. 24 ; leaves palmatelv ^fjf^^Ji 

 leaflets oblong or lanceolate, petals 2, stamens 6, fruit tardily ae ^^ 

 C. triphylla, Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. 296, Supi^L t. 37. Stroeinena 

 liata, Foxb. FL Ind. ii. 79. Desmocarpus missionis, Wall. Cat. 6/J»- 



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Southern parts of the Caknatic, Berry, &c. Drier parts of Ceylon. ^ ^ petiok^ 

 A rigid branched shrub, bark brown, shoots rather hairy. L^^fl^^^ ^^'^ Sep^ 

 4-4 in. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in few-flowered, axillary awd terminal corym^^ 'jinibs^^ 

 pale green, membranous, oblong, outer IJ in. Petals 2 in., yellowish-'^l^j e» 

 orbicular. DiBk-limh bright yellow, recurved. Capsule 2-4 in., valves brit • 



2. C. Indica, Lamk ; DC. Prodr. i. 244 ; leaves simple ovate .^^j^^eflt 

 acute obtuse or mucronate, petals 4 limb oblong, stamens 4, fruit g^^^ 

 .WaU. Cat. 6977 ; W. & A. Prodr. 24 ; Dah. ik Gibs. Bomb. H- ^: 

 meria tetrandra, Vahl; Foxb. FL Ind. ii. 78. Cleome fruticosa, i^f • 





. Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers large, yellow or purplish, polygamous. 

 Sepals 4, cohering below with the convex lobed disk. Petals 4, long-clawed, j 

 open in bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to the base of the gynophore. 

 Ovary on a slender stalk, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, depressed ; ovules many, 

 on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fleshy. Seeds imbedded in pulp.— Distrib, 

 Species about 6, tropical and cosmopolitan, * > ^ 



1. C. religiosa, Forst. ; DC. Prodr. i. 243 ; leaflets ovate or ovate- 

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