168 xi. CAPPARIDEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



TKIBE I. Cleomeae. Herbs. Fruit capsular. 



Stamens sessile on the disk. Petals imbricate in bud ... 1. CLEOME. 

 Stamens on the gynophore. Petals open in bud 2. GYNANDROPSIS. 



TRIBE II. Gappareee. Shrubs or trees. Fruit berried or capsular. 



Calyx tube lined by the disk, lobes valvate. 



Petals 0. Fruit ovoid 3. NIEBUHRIA. 



Petals 4. Fruit moniliform 4. M^ERUA. 



Sepals 4, open in bud. Disk hemispheric 5. CRAT^VA. 



Sepals 4, 2-seriate, imbricate, or 2 outer valvate. 



Stamens 4-6, inserted high on the gynophore 6. CADABA. 



Stamens 8- co , inserted at the base of the gynopbore . . 7. CAPPAKIS. 



epals 6, 2-seriate. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3 8. KOYUSIA. 



1. CLEOIYIE, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-9-foliolate. Flowers racemed, yellow 

 rose or purple. Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4, regular or ascending. &/////' /<> 

 4-8, sessile on the disk. Ovary sessile or with a short gynophore: >iyle 

 short or ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Capsule oblong or linear, 

 valves 2 separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds reniform. 

 DISTRIB. Species about. 80, chiefly tropical. 



C. heptdjihylkt, L., a W. Indian species, is cultivated in India ; it is a tall hairy 

 viscid annual, with prickly stems, 7 leaflets, large purple flowers, and a long gynophore. 



* Leaves simple. 



1. C. monophylla, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 239; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 puberulous penninerved, bracts petiolate, stamens 6. I !"<///. Cut. <'>'.<;:>; 



W. & A. Prodr. 21 ; Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 129 ; Thwii!** Ennm. 14 ; Oliv. FL 

 Trop. Afric. i 76. C. cordata, DC. l.c.Burm. Zeyl. t. 100, f. 3. 



Western Peninsula from BKHAR and the CONCAN to CEYLON, in fields and waste 

 places. BISTRIH. Tropical Africa. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, branched. Leaves 1-2 in., base rounded or cordate. Flowers 

 -1 in. long, dull purple ; racemes elongating in fruit. Petals long-clawed, ascending. 

 Capsules 2-4 in., striate, subsessile or shortly stalked. Seeds rugose. 



2. C. papillosa, Steiid. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 382 ; hairy, often glandular, 

 leaves ovate-cordate obtuse strigose papillose penninerved, bracts small 

 sessile, stamens 6. Oliv. Fl. Tri>. Afric. i. 76; Edgew. I.e. vi. 184. C. gra- 

 cilis, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. 1212. 



Arid districts of SINDH and WESTERN PUNJAB. DISTRIB. Abyssinia, Kordofan, 

 Arabia. 



Stem 6-12 in., erect, branched, strong scented. Leaves \-l% in., lower long-petioled, 

 upper subsessile. Flowers very small, pinkish at length dirty yellow ; racemes elon- 

 gate in fruit ; bracts oblong, upper pedicels ebracteate. Capsules 1-1^ in., subsessile, 

 very slender, finely striate. tieeds glabrous, granulate. 



3. C. quinquenervia, DC. Prodr. i. 239 ; viscid, leaves suborbicular 

 palmately 5-nerved softly pubescent, bracts leafy, stamens 4 or 6. T. Anders, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 3; Griff. Itin. Ao^'323, n. 1261. C.Noreana, 

 oiss. Fl. Orient. 



Arid districts of SINDH and WESTERN PUNJAB, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, 

 Persia, Arabia. 

 Stem 6-12 in., erect; branches spreading from the base, rigid woody, strongly 



