Order 9. Cruciferce. 1 5 



Raplianus sativus. Kadish mule. 



Brassica oleracea. The original species from which all the 

 varieties of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and nolecole have 

 been produced. Of B. campestris one variety (rapa) is the 

 turnip plant, and another (napus) that which produces rape- 

 seed, from which colza oil is made. B. mgraand alba (formerly 

 sinapis) mustard, rdi. 



Nasturtium officinale, water-cress. 



Lepidium sativum, common cress. 



Note. Nolecole is the same plant as what is called Cole rubbi in 

 England. The garden flower commonly called Nasturtium is a 

 Tropseolum. 



ORDER 10. CAPPARIDE^. Capers. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, leaves simple or palmately divided, 

 sepals 4, petals 4, arranged crosswise : stamens often very 

 numerous, and on or at the base of the stalk of the ovary 

 (gynophore), style short or none; fruit a silique or berry. 



This order is distinguished from Cruciferae by the general differ- 

 ence in habit, by the stamens (in the Indian genera) being never 

 tetradynamous, and generally very conspicuous. The gynophore 

 is a very uncommon characteristic. The flowers are often very 

 handsome. The so-called siliques of this order are more correctly 

 siliquiform capsules. 



TRIBE 1. CLEOMEJ:. Herbs. 



1. CLEOME. Stamens sessile on the disk, ovary sessile or 

 nearly so : fruit a silique. 



2. GYNANDROPSIS. Leaves 5-foliate, petals long-clawed, 

 stamens 6, rising from the gynophore. 



TRIBE 2. CAPPARE.E. Shrubs or trees. 



3. M^RUA t Climbing shrubs, petals smaller than the 

 sepals, stamens many inserted high up on the gynophore : 

 fruit necklace-shaped. 



4. CRAT^EVA. Trees, petals long-clawed, stamens indefinite, 

 united to the base of the slender gynophore, stigma sessile, 

 berry fleshy. 



5. CADABA. Sepals unequal, petals clawed, disk tubular, 

 from which the gynophore arises : stamens 4 to 6, inserted on 

 one side of the gynophore : stigma sessile, silique slender. 



6. CAPPARIS, Trees or shrubs generally thorny with simple 

 leaves ; stamens indefinite inserted on the disk at the base of 

 the long gynophore : stigma sessile, fruit fleshy. 



