102 X. MORINGACEJE (oliver). [Moringa, 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Roth ! 

 Also in Upper Egypt, Syria, and Arabia. 



Order XI. RESEDACEiE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers usually hermaplirodite, irregular or nearly regular. Calyx 4-7- 

 partite ; segments unequal or nearly equal. Petals 2-4-7 or ; lamina en- 

 tire or 3-7 -partite, simple or with a dilated claw, free or rarely shortly connate 

 at the base, open iu aestivation. Disk sessile or shortly stipitate, often uni- 

 lateral or 0. Stamens 3-40, inserted on the disk or hypogynous, often 

 declinate, free or the filaments united at the base ; anthers 2 -celled. Ovary 

 sessile or stipitate, of 2-6 connate carpels, closed or open at the apex or 

 narrowed into short, cuspidate styles. Ovules indefinite, sometimes few, in- 

 serted upon parietal placentas, or around the centre and base of the ovary. 

 Pruit a closed or open capsule, or indehiscent, baccate in one genus, or of as 

 many minute follicles as carpels. Seeds indefinite, sometimes few, more or 

 less reniform, exalbuminous ; embryo curved or folded with an incumbent 

 radicle. — Annual or perennial herbs or shrubby. Leaves scattered or 

 fasciculate, entire, 3-fid- or pinnatifid ;, stipules minute. Flowers racemose 

 or spicate, bracteate. 



A small Natural Order, principally confined to the Mediterranean region and Asia Minor. 



Petals 5, of which 2 at least are 5-7-partite ; carpels 6, open, connate 



at the base, shortly stipitate 1. Caylusea. 



Petals 4-7, of which at least 2 are 3-10*partite. Ovary 3-lobed at the 



apex. Fruit an open capsule 2. Reseda. 



Petals 2, undivided. Capsule with 4 teeth or cusps • 3. Oliggmerts. 



Petals 0. Pmit a closed berry 4. Ochradenus. 



1. CAYLUSEA, St. Hil. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 111. 



Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, of which usually 2 (or 3) have a 5-7-partite 

 lamina; claw obcordate. Stamens 10-14, inserted upon a slightly raised 

 torus. Carpels 6, in a single whorl upon a short gynophore, connate at the 

 base, open above ; ovules indefinite, collected in the centre of the carpels. 

 Bipe carpels radiating widely, few-seeded. — Glabrous, setulose-pilose or pilose 

 herbs. Leaves usually entire, lanceolate or linear. Flowers small, in terminal, 

 bracteate racemes. 



A genus of two species, both of which are included in the tropical African flora, one 

 being peculiar to Abyssinia. The flowers appear subject to a prolified condition, at least iu 

 C. ca7}escen8. 



More or less pilose, hirsute or setulose. Leaves undulate \. C. canescens. 



Glabrous or thinly scabrid above. Leaves plane 2. C. abyssinica. 



1. C. canescens^ St. Hil. Mem. Redd. (1838) 30. A diff"use or 

 ascending herb, sometimes, in dry situations, with rather rigid, divaricate 

 branches, more or less sparsely hirsute-pilose or very shortly setulose-pilose. 

 Leaves litiear-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, usually with a wavy 

 margin, thinly setulose', at least upon the midrib beneath. — For synonymy, 

 see Webb, Spicilegia Gorgonea, 101. 



Nile I«and. Nubia, SchwelnfarLh ! 



Extends from the Cape de Verd islands eastward through N. Africa, Egypt, and Arabia, 

 to N.W. India. 



