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pedicels developed into spiral tendrils, and irregular polygamo-dicecious 

 flowers. Sepals 4, concave, the 2 outer ones small. Petals 4, in pairSj the 

 2 greater lateral usually adhering to the sepals each with an emargmate 

 scale above the base^ the two smaller inferior remote frora the stamens eaca 

 furnished with asmall crested "scale. Disk unilateral, wavy, almost reduced 

 to 2 round or linear glands opposite the lower petals. Stamens B, txcen- 

 tric ; filaments free or connate at base ; the 4 nearest to the glands shorter 

 than the rest. Ovary 3-celled ; style short, trifid ; ovules solitary, ascending. 

 Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, inflated, loculicidal ; valves membranous, v^my. 

 Seeds globose, usually arillate at the base, exalbuminous, testa crustaceous; 

 cotyledons large,^ transy^ersely conduplicate.— Distrib. Several species, 

 mostly occurring in Tropical America and a few in Tropical Africa. 



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For the morphology of the Bower "in this genus, see Griffith NbiulWj iv. p. o^b^^ 

 C. Schmiedelia and C. villosa, Balz, & Gibs. Bomh. FL 34, are clear^^ meant to W 



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1. t. Halicacabum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i, 366 ; thinly pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous rather pale, leaflets much acuminate, flowers small. 

 W.(kA. Prodr. i 109 ; Wall. Cat. 8D30; Griff. Notxd. iv. 546, Ic P^-ffl' 

 iv. t. 699, f. 3 ; Stewart Punjab PI. 31 : Dalz. dc Gibs. Bomb. ti>. 3* , 

 WigU Ic. t. 508 ; Thwaites Enum. 54 ; Roxb. FL hid. ii. 292; B(jI. Moj.}- 

 1049 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 28 : Bmss. FL Orierd. i. 945 ; Baker, m Ultv. 

 FL Trop.-Afr. i. An, with syn.; Bentk. FL AustraL i. 453. C microcarpnffl, 

 R: B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. PL v. 104; Baker Lc. 418, wUh syn.-iiheeM 

 Hort. Mai. viii. t. 28; Jiumph. Herb. Amhoin. vi. t. 24, f. ±^1 



: Througliovit India, from the N.W. Frontieb to Ceylon and Malacca.— Distrib. 

 Most tromcftlwid subtropical. countries. ;v:;;,; ,>., ; - I; J^:,,^ , ^.^@ r-'-", .. -r.-,,, 

 ^ Annual or perhaps in some cases perennial. Branches slender, furrowea. /'*". 

 tfeltoid or ovate, Ij^-S in.; leaflets deeply cut. Flowers white, \ m.Fru^ ^ *ilpr 

 wide, broadly p) rifol-m. Seeds officinal! Boot aperient. — The form with smaller 

 ofcversely deltoid capsule (C. microcarpum) , being connected with the type J)J c 

 tinuous links, does not appear to nie to be a distinct species. \-.': 4i : ;, iV^tl 





2. C. canescens, WalL PL As. Ear. i. 14, t. 14 ; pale, softly pubescent 



leaflets sTiort, flowers of moderate size. W. d; A. Prodr. i. 109 ; fKiflr ,„ 

 t. 74; Wall. Cat. 8032; Balcer m Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. L 418, w^^^" 



? C. ovatum, WdL Cat. 8031. C. pubescens, Griff. Joum. \0S, not of laga^ 



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 i^rwi^ nearly globose, 1-1 4 in.— C. ow^w;w deviates somewhat from the type i^^. 

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