120 X. CAPPARiDACE^. [Cleotne. 



sessile. Flowers yellow in terminal corymbs, long-pedicellate. 

 Petals "5 in. long. Stamens 12 to 20. Capsule glandular pubescent 

 narrowed to the tip, 2 to 3*5 in. long, erect. Seeds small reniform. 

 Hab. Common weed carried about by cattle, the plants often 

 springing up from their dung. Whole peninsula from Singapore 

 to Lankawi and Kelantan. Dislrib. Whole world. Native name : 

 Kutepeng. 



(2) CI. aculeata Linn. Syst. cd. 13 iii. 232. CI. HuUettii 

 King, I.e. 391; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e. 7, pi. 133A. 



Herb slightly shrubby about i ft. tall, branched prickly puber- 

 ulous. Leaves below trifoliolate petiolate, leaflets obovate, upper 

 ones simple sessile, ovate pubescent, "5 to 75 in. long. Flowers 

 small solitary axillary, -5 in. across, on slender pedicels, greenish 

 white. Stamens 6. Capsule terete green 1-5 in. long. Seeds 

 large muricate. Hah. Singapore. A weed in the town and the 

 Botanic Gardens and fields near Tanglin. Dislrib. Native of South 

 America, introduced through Java, rather a small weak form. 



2. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



An annual herb, glabrous or glandular pubescent. Leaves 

 5-foholate. Flowers racemed. Sepals 4. Petals 4, long-clawed. 

 Stamens 6, filaments adnate below to the gynophore spreading 

 above. Ovary stalked; ovules many. Capsule elongate erect; 

 valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seed reni- 

 form black. Species 10, all tropics. 



(i) G. pentaphylla DC. Prodr. i. 238; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 171; 

 King, I.e. 392. 



About I ft. tall. Leaves quinate long-petioled, leaflets sessile 

 obovate or cuneate, i to 1-5 in. long. Flowers white with purple 

 stamens, -35 to -8 in. long. Capsules cylindric pointed 2 to 4 in. 

 long. Hah. Waste ground common from Singapore to Kedah. 

 Disirib. Tropics generally. Native names : Maman putih ; Maman 

 antu. Use : As a pot-herb, planted among padi in Tringganu as 

 a vegetable. 



3. ROYDSIA, Roxb. 



Large woody climbers, unarmed. Branches spotted white. 

 Leaves simple. Flowers racemed or panicled, yellow. Calyx 

 6-lobed, segments biseriate. Petals o. Stamens indefinite inserted 

 above the base of the short gynophore. Ovary 3-celled. Styles 3. 

 Ovules many. Fruit fleshy, i-celled, 3-valved, i-seeded. Species 

 10, India, Indo-China. 



Leaves obovate, cuspidate . . . . . (i) R. parviflora 

 Leaves oblong, elliptic {2) R. Scortechinii 



_ (i) R. parviflora Griff. NotulcB iv. 578; Ic. PI. As. t. 607, 

 /. i. ; Hook. fit. F.B.I, i. 409; King, I.e. 396. 



Woody climber 4 to 8 ft. long. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate 



