34 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
i i i ly few, seeds: seeds 
nting. Fruit pod-shaped, or baccate, I-celled, with numerous, rare j 
geitdeaily Feber. ache with a thickened testa, foliacious cotyledons, and a curved 
embryo. 
Arrinities. The herbaceous forms of Capparidee, are allied to Crucifere by habit, by 
their quaternary sepals and petals, and some of them by their hexandrous stamens, which h 
section of Capparidee. ‘The fruticose section is less likely to be confounded, the difference of 
pitate ovary, so common in this order, is 
also met with in Passifloree, combined with indehiscent fruit and parietal polyspermous 
they are distinguished by 
y agree in having parietal 
placente, and reniform exalbuminous seed, but are separated by the different arrangement of 
their flowers. 
Essentiat Caaracter. Polypetalons, polyandrous, dicotyledons, with versatile anthers, 
the ovary wholly superior, and the carpels combined into a solid fruit, with more placentes 
than one. Leaves alternate, ex-stipulate, or with spines in their place. Cadaba has 4; Cleome 
and Gynandropsis 6 stamens, 
IBUTION. This large order is nearly confined t 
America. They are more sparingly met with in New Holland, and 
) orns. In some situations the Species of Crateva, 
are nearly equally abundant, and when in infini 
terminating in large clusters of showy flowers, 
egree of perfection near tanks or water courses, where the soil was rj 
however handsome plants in all situations, é 
ks. The many points of affinity in 
Crucifere, have been already ad rted to. [| i i 
like them an acrid volatile biceie Sights can SS ir 
r 
ose of so many of the 
€ much esteemed in the south 
; pared, by many, t tard, 
(cleome } ses goatee is y, to mustard. The leaves and 
: in this country, the seed are administered as inati i 
-— of Gynandropsis (cleome ) pentaphylla bruised, and : eked to tke a remit 
nt, and produce very abundant serous exudation, affordi 
