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>. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



Annual herbs, usually glandular-pubesceub. Leaves S-T-foliolate. 

 Flowers racemose. Sepals 4, spreading, deciduous. Petals 4, with 

 loug slender claws, imbricate or open in bud. Stamens 6 ; filaments 

 adnate to a slender gynophore, spreading above, subequal. Ovary 

 stalked ; ovules many. Capsule usually stalked, compressed or sub- 

 terete, usually elongate. Seeds reniform or orbicular ; testa rugose ; 

 cotyledons incurved, accumbent. — Distrib. Tropical regions ot both 

 hemispheres ; species 10. 



1. Gynandropsis pentaphylla, DC. Prodr. v. 1 (1824) p. 238. 

 Annual, erect, brauL'hed, 2-4 ft. high ; stems and branches striate, more 

 or less clothed with white spreading hairs. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; petioles 

 2-3 in. long, sometimes armed with small distant prickles ; leaflets sub- 

 sessile, |-1| by |-1 in., elliptic-obovate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, 

 cuneate at the base, pubescent on both sides, margins crenate-dentate or 

 subentire. Flowers at first corymbose, elongating into a dense brac- 

 teate raceme ; pedicels g-f in. long, viscid-pubescent ; bracts subsessile, 

 trifoliolate, witli small obovate leaflets. Sepals lanceolate, glandular- 

 pubescent, green with white veins. Petals pale pink, f in. long, broadly 

 obovate or suborbicular with a long narrow claw, (iynophore |-1 in. 

 long. Stamens purple, inserted about h way up the gynophore. Ovary 

 linear-oblong, glandular, seated on the top of: the gynophore ; style 

 almost 0. Capsules 2-3| by -f^ in., viscid-pubescent, tapering at both 

 ends, obliquely striate. Seeds muricate, dark brown. Fl. B, I. v. 1, 

 p. 171 ; Grab. Cat. p. 7; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 7 ; Eichler in Mart. Fl. Bras. 

 v. 13, part 1 (1865) p. 261, t. 58, fig. 3 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 4, p. 190. — Flowers : June. Veen. Pdndri-iilivdn. 



Acommoii weed in waste places. Deccan: Woodrow\; Ahmednagar, Coo^-c ! ; Poona, 

 in cultivated VK\As„Jaiquemont, 810! Gujarat: Woodrow. S. M. Country: Belgaum, 

 Bitchie, 11.58! 



Gynandropsis speciosa, DC, witli large rose-colored flowers is often grown as an 

 ornamental plant in gardens. 



3. DIPTERYGIUM, Decaisne. 



A twiggy, divaricately-branched undershrub. Leaves small, petioled, 

 scattered, ovate-oblong, acute, quite entire. Flowers small, bracteate. 

 Sepals small, equal at the base. Stamens 6, equal. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 ovules 1-2 in each cell, often 4-winged, the wings afterwards disappear- 

 ing; style elongate ; stigma capitate. Fruit indeliiscent, small, pendulous, 

 ellipsoid, compre^^sed, surrounded by a membranous wing, 1-seeded. 

 Seeds erect, curved ; cotyletlons concave ; embryo incumbent. — Distrib. 

 Arabia, Nubia; species 1. 



1. Dipterygium glaucum, Ihcahne.m Ann. Sc. N(tt. ser. 2, v. 4 

 (1835) p. 67. A shrub 6-20 in. high ; branches slender, terete, grooved. 

 Leaves ;|-.J by yV-jV i"-' *'^'^^'' ^"^^ '^^ ^^"^''^ "^ ^'^'^ stems rough with 

 viscid glands ; ])elioles short. Flowers iu long, bracteate racemes ; 

 pedicels short, filiform. Sepals small, ovate, acute. Petals white, ovate, 

 obtuse, shortly clawed. Fruit transversely wrinkled, Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p, 134 (under N.O. Cruciferce); F. Pax, in Engl. & PrautI, Pflanz. v. 3, 



