NasiHrfium.] ix. crucifer.e. 119 



elongate terete. Seeds in 2 rows. Species 20 or more, whole 

 world, chiefly temperate regions. 



(i) N. indicum DC. Sysi. Veg. ii. 199; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 134. 



A weed 4 to 8 in. tall glabrous. Leaves rmicinate or oblong 

 crenulate simple, decurrent on the petiole, 3 in. long, i in. wide; 

 petioles i in. long winged. Racemes axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 

 in. long. Flowers yellow, "2 in. long. Pods linear spreading i in. 

 long, •! in. through. Seeds very numerous. Hah. Occasional 

 weed in waste ground. .Singapore, Gardens; Bukit Timah road; 

 Chan Chu Kang. Penang, Convalescent Bungalow. Dislrib. 

 Tropical Asia. 



Order X. CAPPARIDACE/E. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple 

 or palmately 3- to 9-foliolate. Stipules 2 or o, sometimes spiny. 

 Flowers solitary, racemed or umbelled, regular or irregular. Sepals 

 4, free or connate, valvate or imbricate. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or o), 

 hypogynous or seated on the disc. Stamens 4 to indefinite, hypo- 

 gynous or perigynous or at the base of or on a long or short gyno- 

 phore. Ovary sessile or stalked (on a gynophore) i-celled; style 

 short or o; ovules indefinite on 2 to 4 parietal placentas. Fruit 

 a capsule or berry. Seeds angled or reniform exalbuminous. 

 Tropical or sub-tropical countries. 



Herbs ; stamens 6 to 20 sessile on disc . . . i . Cleome 



Herbs ; stamens 6 adnate to gynophore below, free 



above . . . . . . .2. Gynandropsis 



Trees or shrubs ; stamens indefinite. 



Climber, petalous ...... 3. Roydsia 



Shrubby, petalous. 



Petals sessile ; stamens inserted on the torus . 4. CapparIS 

 Petals clawed ; stamens adnate to the gynophore 5 . Crat^eva 



1. CLEOME, L. 



Herbs with 3- to 9-foliolate leaves. Flowers racemed (or solitary) 

 yellow, white (or pink). Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4. Stamens 

 6 to 20. Ovary sessile or with a gynophore; ovules many on 2 

 parietal placentas. Capsules oblong or linear, valves 2, separating 

 from the seed-bearing placentas. Seed reniform. Species about 

 80, Cosmopolitan. 



Erect, unarmed herb ; flowers yellow, viscid . . (i) C. viscosa 



Slender branched prickly herb ; flowers small white . (2) C. aculeata 



(i) CL viscosa Linn. Sp. PI. 672; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 170; 

 King, Journ. As Soc. Beng. Iviii. (2), 392. Polanisia icosandra 

 W. and A. Prod. 22; Wight. Ic. t. 2. 



An erect viscid herb. Lea.ves 3- to 5-foliolate, leaflets obovate 

 or ovate, lower ones long petioled, upper ones sometimes sub- 



