Cadaba.l Capparidecs. 59 



numerous ; fruit globose ; seed imbedded in pulp. — Sp. 6 or 

 more ; i in Fl. B. hid. 



C Roxburg-hii, Br. in Denh. atid Clapp. Travels, app. 224 (1826). 

 Xiunu-warana, S. Ifavala, Navilankai, T. 



Thw. Enum. 14. C. P. 1067. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 172 (not given for Ceylon). Hk. Ic. PI. t. 178. Bedd. 

 FI. Sylv. t. 116. 



A small tree, with a much-branched head, young twigs 

 prominently marked with leaf-scars ; 1. deciduous, 3-foliolate, 

 Iflts. shortly stalked, 2^-4 in., broadly oval, acuminate, taper- 

 ing to base, entire, glabrous, the lateral ones oblique, petioles 

 3-4 in. ; fl. large, 2 in. diam., from the axils of the bud-scales 

 below the new leaves, forming corymbose clusters at the end 

 of the new growths, ped. i|in., stout, glabrous ; sep. distant, 

 small, ovate-acute, pet. f-i in., rounded-oval, with a long, 

 narrow claw ; stam. longer than pet., wide-spreading ; gyno- 

 phore i-i| in., exceeding stam.; ov. small, ovoid; fruit a 

 globose berry, on the thickened, woody gynophore now nearly 

 2 in. long, pericarp hard, smooth ; seeds several, imbedded in 

 pulp, nearly smooth, black. 



Dry country ; rather common. Jaffna ; Trincomalie ; Hambantota ; 

 Kekirawa ; Dambulla. 



Fl. December, with the young foliage ; greenish-white. 



Also on the Coromandel coast of Madras, and in many other parts of 

 India, and in Tropical Africa. 



In the Fl. B. Ind. this is considered a variety of the Pacific Island 

 p-lant C. religiosa, Forst. 



Much planted by the Tamils for the sake of its bitter leaves, used as 

 a stomachic. Wood yellowish-white, fairly hard ; used for making 

 sandals. 



5. CADABA, Forsk. 



Shrubs or small trees ; sep. 4, biseriate, the outer valvate ; 



pet. 2 or 4 ; stam. 4 or 6, inserted half-way up the gynophore; 



disk with a horn-like process projecting excentricly opp. the 



gynophore ; ov. i -celled, with 2 parietal placentas; fruit long, 



cylindrical, soft, but finally dehiscing by 2 valves ; seeds 



numerous. — Sp. 12; ^'m Fl. B. Ind. 



Leaves trifoliolate. Pet. 2. Stam. 6 . . . i. C. trifoliat.\. 

 Leaves simple. Pet. 4. Stam. 4. ." . . .2. C. indica. 



I. C. trifoliata, W. and A. Prod. 24 (1834). 



Thw. Enum. 15. C. P. 1066. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 172. Hk. Bot. Misc. iii. t. suppl. yj. 



A large, straggling, much-branched shrub, bark smooth, 

 grey; 1. 3-foliolate, Iflts. very shortly stalked, i|-3 in., Ian- 



