Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 391 



with a clubbed appendage. Ovaries many, 1-celled, sunk in the flat 

 top of an obconic fleshy torus, attacliment lateral ; style very short, ex- 

 serted ; stigma terminal, dilated; ovules ]-2, pendulous. Carpels ovoid, 

 loose in the cavities of the enlarged spongy torus; pericarp bony, 

 smooth. Seed filling the carpel, testa spongy, albumen ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, thick, enclosing the large folded plumule. — Distrib. Species 2, 

 one Asiatic and Australian ; tlie other W. Indian. 



1. N. SPECIOSUM, Willd. Leaves 2 to 3 feet in diam., concave, glaucous. 



Peduncles and petioles 3 to 6 feet long, smooth, or with small scattered 



prickles. Flowers -4 to 10 in. diam ; petals elliptic, rose, rarely white. 



Fruiting torus flat-topped, 2 to 4 in. diam. Ripe carpels ovoid, about '5 



in. long. Wight & Arn. Prodr. i. 16; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 647 ; Wight 111. 



i. t. 9; H. f. &T. Fl. Ind. 247; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 2, p. 91. 



N. asiaticuin, Rich, in Ann. Mus. xxii. 249, t. 9. Nelumbo Lidica, Poir. 



Encycl. iv. 453. Nelumbo, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 59, t. 31, 32. C. mysticus, 



Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 75. Nymphcea Nelumbo, Linn. 



In stagnant water throughout the Indo-Malayan region, Distrib^ 



Persia, China, Japan and tropical Australia. 



Order VII. CAPPARIDE^. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves simple or palmate- 

 ly 3-to 9-fob'olate ; stipules 2 or 0, sometimes spinescent. Inflorescence in- 

 deli/iite; flowers solitaiy, race med, corymbose or umbelled, regular or 

 irregular, usually 2-sexaal. Sepals 4, free or connate, valvateor imbri- 

 cate, rarely open in bud. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or 0), hypogynous or seated 

 on the disc, imbricate or open in bud. Stamens- 4 or more, liypogynous 

 or periijynous, or at the base of or on a long or short gynophore. Disc 

 0, or tumid, or lining the calyx-tube. Ovary sessUe or stalked, 1-ceIled'; 

 style short or ; stigma depressed or capitate ; ovules indefinite, on 2 to 4 

 parietal placentas, amplii- or campylo-tiopous. Fr^iit capsular or ben-ied. 

 Seeds angled or reniform, exalbuniinous ; embryo incurved. — Distrib. 

 Genera 23, species 300, chiefly tropical, 



1. Cleome, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-to9-foliolate. Floioers ^QMinivy 

 or racemed, yellow, rose or purple. Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4, re- 

 gular or ascending. Slarnens 6 to 20, sessile on the disc. Ovary sessile 

 or with a short gynophore ; style short or ; ovules many, on 2 parietal 

 placentas. Capsule oblong or linear, valves 2, separating fi-om the seed- 

 bearing placentas. Seeds reniform. Distrib. Species about 80, chiefly 

 tropical. 



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