X. CAPPARIDACE.E. 41 



part 2, p. 225, fig. 135; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 122.— Elowers : Sept. 



Sind: uear Jacobabad, Coo/:el, IVoodrowi — Distrib. Arabia, N.E. Africa. 



4. M^RUA, Forsk. 



Climbing unarmed shrubs, often glaucous. Leaves simple, quite 

 entire. Flowers corymbose. Sepals 4, united at the base into a per- 

 sistent infundibuliform tube forming a 4-lobed calyx ; lobes valvate. 

 Petals 4, smaller than the calyx-lobes, inserted on the edge of the cup- 

 shaped disk. Disk infundibuliform, lining the calyx-tube, elongated iu 

 the middle into a columnar obconic receptacle or torus, equalling or 

 slightly exceeding the calyx-tube. Stamens many, inserted on the torus ; 

 filaments free or connate at the base. Ovary seated on a long gyno- 

 phore, 1-2-celled ; placentas 2-4, parietal or cohering in the middle ; 

 ovules many ; stigma subsessile. Berry fleshy, elongate, moniliform, 

 1- or more-seeded. Seeds large ; cotyledons fleshy, convolute. — Distrib. 

 Tropical Africa, Arabia ; species about 20. 



1. Maerua ovalifolia, Camhess. in Jacquemont, Voy. Bot. (1844) 

 p. 23, t. 24. A climbing shrub with divaricate branches ; bark smooth, 

 pale. Leaves 1-2 by |-1 in., elliptic- oblong, obtuse or refuse, mucro- 

 nate, glaucous, glabrous ; petioles stout, ^-\ in. long. Flowers iu 

 corymbs, greenish-white, terminal or on lateral shoots ; pedicels -i---| in. 

 long, glabrous; bract 1 at the base of each pedicel, small, ovate, acuminate, 

 rigid, yellow. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, | in. long, hooded at the apex, 

 with a short horn behind the hood and with a line of dense white 

 pubescence on the margin. Calyx-tube ~ in. long, lined with an infun- 

 dibuliform disk as long as the tube with truncate margins, the columnar 

 torus slightly exceeding the calyx-tube. Petals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 with slightly undulate margins, half as long as the calyx-lobes and 

 alternate with them or nearly so, inserted on the margin of the cup- 

 shaped disk. Stamens many, inserted on the torus. Gynophore | in. 

 long. Ovary cyliudric, truncate ; style ; stigma large. Fruit pale 

 brown, constricted between the seeds, forming an elongate twisted and 

 knotted berry, each lobe or knot 1-seeded. Seeds brown, globose, 

 echinate. Mcerua arenaria, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 171 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 58; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 9 ; AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 123. Nichuhria ohlomjifolia, Eoyle, 111. 

 Him. Bot. p. 73; Grab. Cat. p. 8; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 8. Gapparis 

 heterocUta, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2, p. 570. — Flowers : Nov.-Mar. 



KoNKAN : N. & S. Ivonkan, Law ! Deccan : Yeoat, near Poona, Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; 

 between Wai and the Kaiuatki Ghdt, Graham; hedges in the Deccan, Dalzell ^~ Gibson. 

 Gujarat: Deesa, Law (fide Graham); hedges iu Gujarat, DaLell c^~ Gibson. S. M, 

 Country: Dharwar, Talbot. 



5. CRAT.ffiVA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers in axillary and terminal corymbs, 

 handsome, usually polygamous. Sepals inserted on the edge of the disk, 

 deciduous, imbricate. Petals 4, with long claws, open in bud. Disk 

 hemispheric, lobed, lining the bottom of the calyx. Stamens 8-20, 

 nsej'ted on the margin of the disk ; filaments filiform, elongate. Ovary 



