16 CAPPARIDEiE. 



'-segments. The gynophore is 2"-3" long, but as it does not grow out with the capsule, it 

 lways shorter than this ; the diagnosis of authors (" gynophore exceeding the capsule ") ia 



leaf-! 



is always 



wrong, and taken from immature sfates ; the ripe capsule is often 4" long. 



a. Ovary and capsule glabrous. — C. heptaphylla, Sw. Observ. C. spinosa, Macf. 



/8. Swartziana. Ovary and capsule glandular. — Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 18. — C. spinosa, 

 Sw. Observ. C. heptaphylla, BC, Macf. — Hab. Jamaica!, common in waste places; S. 

 Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Schack ; [range through the whole of tropical America. In the 

 Brazilian C. spinosa, L. (Lond. Journ. of Bot. 2. p. 330), the capsule is longer, and as long 

 as the gynophore]. 



4. C. Houston!, R. Br. Glandular-pubescent ; stipules and petioles prickly ; segments 

 of leaves 5-3, elliptical-lanceolate ; bracts ovate ; stamens scarcely exceeding the purple co- 

 rolla; ovary shortly stalked, and capsule 6-12 times longer than the gynophore. — Martyn, 

 Hist. t. 45. — C. heptaphylla, Mey. Fl. Esseq. ! C. cubensis, Rich. Cub. — Richard published 

 an excellent exposition of the distinctive characters of this confused species, but he did not 

 •recognize R. Brown's older name, illustrated by Martyn' s good figure. The chief character is 

 the short gynophore, only 2"'-4'" long in the flower, and not excrescent afterwards. The 

 habit is similar to the preceding. — Hab. Jamaica, Houst.; [Cuba !, Guiana !]. 



5. O. polygama, L. Glabrous ; segments of leaves three, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate ; 

 bracts suppressed ; stamens a little exserted from the whitish corolla ; capsule subsessile, 

 tapering at the base. — SI. t. 124./. 1 ; Jacq. Amer. Picl. t. 262./. 73 : a leaf. — C. serrata, 

 L. C. triphylla, Besc. {FL 1. t. 44 : erroneously exhibiting yellow flowers). The name 

 alludes to the upper flowers, which are said to be often sterile and tetrandous. The leaf- 



— segments vary in breadth, and in the margin either entire or serrate.— Hab. Jamaica !, Bist., 

 M'Nab, Alex., Wils., common; [Panama ! to Goyaz! and Guayaquil!]. 



6. C. aculeata, L. Glandular-pub erulous ; stipules prickly; flowers axillary, small; 

 segments of leaves three, elliptical, cuneate at the base ; stamens included ; capsule subsessile, 

 glabrous. — A diffuse annual ; leaves broader than in the preceding, subentire ; flowers (2'" 

 long) scattered : pedicel filiform ; capsule 1^"— 2" long : seeds muricate. — Hab. Caribbean 

 Islands; [Martinique!, Guiana]. 



7- C. procumbens, Jacq. Glabrous, procumbent; leaves not divided, lanceolate, 

 pointed, quite entire ; bracts conform, almost exceeded by the distant pedicels ; stamens 

 equalling the yellow corolla; capsule subsessile. — SI. t. 123./. 1 ; Jacq. Amer. Fict. t. 181. 

 — Diffuse, usually spithameous ; leaves about 6'" long ; petals 2'" long, purple on drying ; 

 capsule 8'" long, apiculated by the filiform style: valves convex. — Hab. Jamaica!, Bist., 

 Jk'Nab, March, common in dry, sandy pastures ; [Haiti]. 



Sect. 4. Ranmanissa. — Bisc reduced to a ring of glands. Stamens indefinite. 

 Petals shortly clawed. 

 8*. C viscosa, L. (ex. syn. Martyn). Glandular; segments of leaves 3 (-5), obovate- 

 laneeolate, equalling the petiole ; petals obovate, yellow ; stamens about twenty, equalling the 

 corolla ; style short ; capsule rough with glandular hairs, sessile : valves convex, striated. — 

 Martyn, Mist. t. 25. — Folanisia, BC. [ex. synon.). P. isocandra, W. A. : this does not pro- 

 perly belong to the North American and Mexican Folanisia, which forms another section 

 of the genus, distinguished by a unilateral disc, and by long-clawed petals. — Hab. Natu- 

 ralized in Jamaica !, S. Kitts !, Nevis !, S. Vincent ! ; [introduced from the Old "World, where 

 it ranges from Southern China ! to Senegambia]. 



2*. MORINGA, Juss. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 10, inserted upon a cupuliform disc : anthers unilocular. 

 Capsule silique-sbaped, medianicide, trivalved. — A tree ; leaves decompositi-pinnatisect : pa- 

 nicles axillary. 



9*. M. pterygosperma, Gcertn. Five of the stamens sterile ; capsules triquetrous : seeds 

 three- winged.— Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 16 ; Besc. Fl. I. t. 27-— A low tree, 12'-20' high ; leaves 

 three times pinnatisect, about l f -2'long: segments spathulate or elliptical, blunt ; petiole 

 bearing glands at its ramiacations ; flowers whitish; capsule nearly 1' long. — Hab. Natu- 

 ralized and common iu Jamaica!, Macf; S. Kitts !, S. Vincent 1 ; [introduced from the Old 

 World, where it ranges from the East Indies 1 to Senegambia !]. 



