ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
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from a blister, without its inconveniences. This freedom from inconvenience is not however 
always experienced. 
plant, is said to blister like Cantharides. 
information regarding them 
Remarks on GENERA AND SPECIES. 
I once saw extensive ves 
of this plant, as a discutient, to an incipient bo 
skin probably gave rise to this excessive action. 
1 
ication produced by the application of the leaves 
il. The previously existing inflammation of the 
The root of Crataeva gynandra, a Jamaica 
Dr. Ainslie in his Materia Medica, mentions six 
species of this order, as being employed in medical practice, but upon the whole gives very little 
hem. 
Roxburgh was acquainted with but a small number 
of the Indian species of this order, amounting in all to only 1: 
three genera, viz. Cleome, Stremia, and Capparis. 
13, and these he distributed under 
The two first, most unaccountably, placed 
respectively in tetradynamea, and pentandria digynia: whether through errors of his Editors, 
or by his own arrangement I am unable to say. 
augmented the catalogue, which now extends to 42 species. 
Dr, Wallich, (List of Indian plants) has greatly 
d 
revised the genera, and by adopting the views of those who had previously subdivided the old 
genus Cleome, into three distinct genera, rendered the determination of species much easier, by 
making the genera themselves more natura 
The 
CAPPARIS, 
1 C. floribunda. (R.W.) Shrubby unarmed: leaves 
oval oblong, obtuse at both ends, glabrous: flowers 
numerous, umbelled; umbels axillary, numerous near 
margine : 
r than the petals and pedi- 
cel of the ovary: ovules several, pendulous, berry few, 
(1-3) seeded, 
he figure is defective, in so far as not 
distinctly showing the pedicelled ovaries in the flowers 
generally. 
C. Moonit. (R.W.) Shrubby, diffuse, scandent, armed 
with short reflexed stipulary thorns; leaves oval, ora 
little broader below, mucronate at the apex, racemes 
terminal, leafless, corymbiform, pedicels 1-flowered— 
flowers very large. 
: } Cat. Ceylon Plants. 
This species | found in Ceylon usually among clumps 
of jungle, in moist or even marshy soil. In such situ- 
ations its large pure white flowers render it a very con- 
spicuous object, andare seen a great distance, 
It seems very nearly allied to C. Roxburgii, but judg- 
ing from the description, and still more from speci- 
s of what I consider his plant, is I think distinet. 
The leaves in this are nearly an exact oval, with an 
are white, nearly six inches across the filaments of the 
stamens, alone sometimes exceeding three inches in 
Jength. The fruit I have not seen, 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 14. 
}. Flowering branch of Capparis floribunda. 
2. Flower detached, showing the sepals, petals, sta- 
mens and ovary. 
3. Ovary laid open, showing the pendulous ovules, 
4. Anther—all magnified, 5. Fruit, ; 
6. 
size, 
cut vertically, showing the large embryo. 
Cut transversely, showing a single seed—natural 
7. Seed removed—natural size. 8, the sam 
o removed, showing its curved form and 
Je imbry ! 
radical pointing to the hilum. 
