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 ffoce/Ties axillary or in the forks, solitary of clustered, 2-6 in. long, mchis glabrous 

 or pubescent; bractcoles oblong, concave, deciduous. Flowers about Mn, diam. Fruit 

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Order XLVIII.— MORINGBS:, (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Deciduous trees with soft wood. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate or 2-3-pin- 

 iiate ; leaflets opposite, quite entire, caducous as well as the pinnules, glandular 

 at the base. Panicles axillary. Floicers iiTegular, bisexual. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, 5-cleft ; segments unequal, petaloid, deciduous from above the base,iui- 

 oncate. Petals 5, unequal, upper smaller, lateral ascending, anterior larger, 

 oto/im inserted on the edge of the disk, declinate, 5 perfect opposite the petals 

 alteniating with 5 (or 7) which are reduced to antherless filaments ; anthers 

 aorsifixed, 1-celled, Dish lining the calyx-tube. Ovary stipitate, I-ceiled ; 

 style slender, tubular, stigma pei-forated ; ovules ninnerous, in 2 series, on 3 pa- 

 ^etal placentas. Capsule elongate, beaked, 3-C-augled, 1-celled, loculicidally 

 ^valved, corky and pitted within. Seeds many, in pits of the valves, testa 

 corky winged or not, albiunen ; embiyo straight, cotj^ledons plano-convex, 

 Radicle very short superior, plimiule manv-leaved — Distrib. 3 species, natives of 

 Western Asia and N. Africa. 



A natural order of very doubtful affinity, which has been referred to near Fesedacecp, 

 ^(^JP^paridew, Melianthece ^ Violariece^ FoJygalca?^ Legtiminose^ BigoicniaceeB, and others. 



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i- M. Pteryg^osperxna, Gcci'tn. ; DC. Proclr. ii. 47S ; leaflets elliptic 

 i^te or obovate, nerves obscure, flowei-s wliite, capsule 9-ril)bed, seeds -vvinged. 

 ri^'^- ■^'■^'^'■- 178 ; Wight III i. 186, t. 77 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 80 ; Balz. c^- 

 mi ^T^-^^- -'514 ; Grail. Cat. Bomb. PI. 43 ; Brand. For. Fl. 120 ; Wall. Cat. 

 ^^•^^- o'ieifera, Lam?c. Fnci/cl. l 898. M. zeylamca, P«-s. M. polygona, 

 r% '^'^''' "• ^'^^- Hyperanthera Moringa, J^ahl. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 368 ; 

 ^m- Jyotul. iv. 572, t. 609. U. decandra, Willd. Giiilandiua Moringa, Linn, 

 -^heedellort. Mai y\.t.\l. 



jjj^jj^^^s of Western Himalaya and Oudh, and cultivated clscTihere throughout 



a. DisTiiiB. Cultivated in various tropical countries. 

 lc(n ^^^^ ^^^^' ^^^^ covkj, wood soft, root pungent; young parts tomentosc. 

 . m 3-2 ft., usually 3-pinnate; petiole slender, sheathing at the base; pinnse 4-6 

 £^'^^^flets 6-9 pairs, J-J in., opposite, pale beneath ; petiolules slender ; glands 

 8cent% ^^^^'' -^^^'^^^*' spreading, bracts linear. Flowers pedicelled, 1 in. diam., houcy 

 ila, i ^^^^^^ linear-lanceolate, reflexed, Peiah narrowly spatliulate. Fertile 

 sJj. ^^^^^^^ ^t the base. Ovary hairy. Pod 9-18 in., pendulous, 9-ribbed. 

 : * ^^-gonous, -n-inged at the angles.— The Horse-radish tree. 



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LS' ^?^^^^ elliptic or orbicular, Ber\'es 4-G pair distinct. Dah. S^- Gibs, 

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 ptBlr ^V'^^^^^ are often retuse at the tip; the petals are yellowish j^treaked -vntli 

 T>ooc;Vi "7^^^ '^ in. long, very broadly trigonous uith membranous ^ing^. Tins njay. 

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