Cleoine.'] Cappavidecp. 55 



Our 19 species are all, with the exception of Capparis Moonii, found 

 in the dry region ; 3 or 4 of them, however, also extend into the moist 

 region. No species occurs in the montane zone. 



I. CI.BOIIIB, L. 



Annual herbs ; sep. 4 ; pet. 4, quite or nearly regular ; 



stam. 6-indef., inserted on receptacle or at base of the gyno- 



phore ; ov. sessile, or with a short gynophore, i -celled, ovules 



numerous on 2 parietal placentas ; capsule linear, 2-valved ; 



seeds reniform. — Sp. 80; 12 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Leaves simple i. C. monophylla. 



Leaves compound. 

 Stam. 6. 



Lflts. linear 2. C. tenella. 



Lflts. ovate 3. C. aspera. 



Stam. numerous. 



Fls. pink 4. C. Chelidonii. 



Fls. yellow 5. C. viscoSA. 



1. C. monophylla, L. Sp. PL 672 (1753). 



Herm. Mus. 10. Burm. Thes. 217. Fl. Zeyl. n. 243. Moon Cat. 48. 

 Thw. Enum. 14. C. P. 2702. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 168. Burm. Thes. t. 100, fig. 2 (not good). 



Annual, 1-2 ft, stems erect, branched, strongly pubescent ; 

 1. |-3 in., passing gradually into bracts above, lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, rounded at base, finely pubescent on both sides, 

 petioles slender, ^-i^ in., pubescent ; fl. solitary, in axils of 

 leafy bracts, in a long erect raceme, ped. slender, shorter than 

 the bracts ; pet. erect, twice as long as sep., long-clawed ; 

 stam. 6 ; pod 2 5-3 in., on a very short stalk, linear, straight, 

 cylindrical, striate, pubescent ; seeds strongly ridged on back. 



Low country, in waste and cultivated ground common ; also in rocky 

 places in the dry districts. 



Fl. Dec-March ; pale violet-pink. 



Also in S. India and in tropical Africa. 



Herm. 1. c, followed by Burman, erroneously describes the flower as 

 yellow. 



2. C. tenella, L.f. Suppl. PI. 300 (1781). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. 1885, 142. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 169. 



A much-branched annual, 4-6 in., branches spreading, 

 slender, glabrous ; 1. petiolate, trifoliolate, lflts. sessile, narrowly 

 linear, acute ; fl. few, very small ; stam. 6 ; pod about i in., 

 without a gynophore, on ped. \ in., linear, apiculate, glabrous; 

 seeds minute, brownish-yellow, finely muriculate. 



Dry region. Only known at present from the sandy coast at 



