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India we may trace the Capparidee into Arabia, Persia, and other countries of the 
Syrian region, and in Africa they abound. Cadaba Indica appears to be restricted to 
the Peninsula; other species of the same genus are found in Persia, Arabia, Abyssinia, 
and Senegal; but Miebuhria oblongifolia, belonging to an African genus, extends from 
the Peninsula into Arabia, where it was first found by Forskal, and also to the neigh- 
bourhood of Agra and Delhi, where I have found it in flower in the months of December 
and January; a specimen in the East-Indian Herbarium from my late friend, Mr. 
Finlayson, is, I have no doubt, from the same locality, as I know he had a small 
collection of plants from the neighbourhood of Meerut, Agra, and Cawnpore. 
As the flower-buds of the caper-bush are in Europe employed as a seasoning, so 
the fruit of the kureel or capparis aphylla, is in India formed into a pickle. The 
former, as it extends to Egypt and Syria, would no doubt thrive in Northern India, 
particularly as C. Nepalensis and obovata are closely allied to it. It is curious to 
observe, that the seeds of Polanisia Chelidonii, and viscosa, having a considerable degree 
of pungency, are used by the natives as an addition to their curries, in the same way 
that mustard is, belonging to a family to which the Capparideé are most closely allied 
through Cleome. The flower-buds and seeds of the caper of Mount Sinai, Capparis 
Sinaica, are pickled, and the latter is called filfil-i-jibbul, mountain-pepper. 
Capparis obovata ; stipulis spinosis rectis, foliis secundis ellipticis v. obovatis mucronulatis apice: 
subattenuatis breve petiolatis cum ramis parce pilosis, pedunculis solitariis unifloris foliis zequalibus.— 
Planta ramis prostratis foliisque secundis C. spinosa et Nepalensi affinis—Hab. Hango in Kunawur. 
13. FLACOURTIANEZ. 
The Flacourtianee, allied to Capparidee by the structure of their fruit, parietal 
placente, and indeterminate stamens, are all natives of the hottest parts of the West 
Indies, of Guiana, and of Africa, whence they straggle into Java, and the other islands 
of the Eastern Archipelago. We trace them in India from one end of the plains to the 
other in 31° of latitude, and. also to the same extent along the hot and jungly tract at 
the foot of the Himalaya. It must be in the low and hot vallies, or the beds of rivers, 
that the species are found. in Nepal ; as Flacourtia cataphracta, sepiaria and sapida, are 
the species found there, as well as in every part of India. The fruit of the last, though 
small, is of a sweetish and pleasant flavour. F. Ramontchi, from Madagascar, and F. 
inermis, from Java and the Moluccas, have been introduced into and flourish in Bengal. 
The fruit of the latter is large, purple-coloured, and of a pleasant acid taste. Species 
of Roumea are mentioned with doubt in the Flora of India, and Hydnocarpus venenata is 
well known in Ceylon from its property of intoxicating fish. 
14. BIXINEA. 
The Bixinee are all found in warm parts, of the Old, but chiefly of the New 
World ; no species has yet been found in India, though Dr. Roxburgh seemed to 
be of opinion, that Bixa orellana, or a variety of it, with white flowers and green imma- 
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