1 6 The Floivering Plants of Western India. 



1. CLEOME. 



1. C. simplicifolia (Polanisia S. D,). Hairy plant with 

 reddish stem and very rough ovate or obovate leaves, flowers 

 pink, solitary or in leafy racemes, stamens 10 to 12, silique 

 smooth pointed with the style. 



Poona colleotorate and elsewhere, common. H. calls it prostrate, 

 which it does not seem to be in W. India. 



2. C. Clielidonii (Polanisia C. D.). A tall strong plant, 

 rather pretty, leaves radical, long-petioled, deeply 7-divided, 

 upper trifoliate ; flowers pink in racemes, stamens very 

 numerous, silique 3 inches long, smooth. 



Beds of Konkan rivers. Moist places in Deccan (D.). 



3 C.viscosa (Polanisia icosandra, D.). A hairy and sticky 

 weed, leaves 3 to 5 foliate, leaflets ovate or obovate, flowers 

 small, yellow, in racemes : stamens many, silique long, rough, 

 erect. Kdnphati, piwali tilwan. 



" Abundant throughout tropical and warm India, and the rest of 

 the world," H. I found it growing by the lighthouse on the Vingorla 

 Rocks, a good proof of uncommon hardiness. 



* C. monophylla, called by D. a common weed, leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate, flowers pink or purple, stamens 6, silique cylindric. 

 * C. Burmannii, much branched, prickly, leaves trifoliate, flowers 

 solitary, purple, silique cylindric. A weed (D.). 



Note. H. and others give this as having 6 stamens, but identify it 

 with R.'s Polanisia dodecandra. 



C. speciosissima is a tall, very handsome garden plant, leaves 5 to 

 7 foliate, flowers large, rose-coloured, stamens very long, pink. 



2. GYNANDROPSIS. 



G. pentaphylla. An erect plant, hairy, sticky, and strong- 

 smelling, leaves 5-foliate, leaflets obovate or lanceolate, flowers 

 in racemes, white or pink, stamens very long. Tilwan 

 tilparni, mdbli. 



A common weed. Warm parts of India and all tropical coun- 

 tries (H.). 



This is a good type of one large section of this order, from the 

 long conspicuous gynophoie and stamens. 



3. M^RUA. 



M. arenaria (Niehburia oblongifolia, D.). Leaves oblong or 

 oval, flowers white or greenish, stamens long, white, fruit con- 

 stricted between the seeds. 



Khair, Poona districts. Hedges Guzerat and Deccan (D.). 



