Cleome.] xi. CAPPARIDEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 169 



aromatic. Leaves- 1 in. diam., obtuse or acute, base cordate or rounded, margins and 

 long petioles glandular. Flowers small ; racemes elongate in fruit ; bracts usually 

 subsessile, rarely narrow, upper sometimes 0. Capsules 1-1 i by in., sessile, narrow- 

 oblong, acute at both ends ; hairs short rigid with tubercled bases, mixed with soft 

 black glandular hairs. Seeds minute, smooth. Anderson describes 6 stamens, we find 

 only 4. 



4. C. Stocksiana, Boiss. Fl Orient, i. 414- glandular above, leaves 

 ovate or obovate tubercled palmately 3-nerved, bracts small or leafy, sta- 

 mens 6, filaments clavate. Griff. Itin. Notes 225, n. 183. 



Rocky hills in SINDH, Stocks. DISTRIB. Beluchistan. 



Perennial ; branches spreading from the base, erect or ascending, white, glabrous, 

 rough below, densely glandular and tubercled above. Leaves 1 in., fleshy, acute or 

 obtuse ; petiole 1-1J in. Flowers small, pale purple, at length yellow ; racemes short 

 or long, densely glandular. Petals obovate-spathulate, clawed. Capsules 14 by in., 

 broad-linear, subsessile, pendulous, striate. Seeds large, brown hairy. 



5. C. simplicifolia, H.f. & T. ; prostrate, strigose, leaves obovate- 

 oblpng or lanceolate, bracts leafy, stamens 10-12, filaments filiform. Po- 

 lanisia simplicifolia, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 20, t. 20 ; Dalzell & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 8. P. burtporensis. Munroin Wight Ic. t. 1072. C. monophylla, 

 Law in Graham Cat. Bomb. PI. 7. 



NORTHERN INDIA, near Burtpore, Munro ; drier parts of the DEKKAN and CONCAN. 



Annual, 6-18 in., much branched from the base. Leaves 1-2 in., obtuse or acute, 

 all scaberulous, hairs with scale like bases. Flowers in., violet, in elongating leafy 

 racemes. Filaments filiform. Capsule |-1 5 in., subsessile, tor ulose; beak ^ in. Seeds 

 large, brown, smooth. 



** Leaves compound. Stamens 6. 



6. C. tenella, Linn.f.; DC. Prodr. i. 240 ; glabrous, leaves 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets linear, capsule subsessile glabrous. W. & A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6966 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 78. C. angustifolia, A. Rich. Fl. Seneg. 20. 



Driest parts of the CARNATIC, Heyne, &c. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa. 



Annual, 3-12 in. ; branches many, slender, spreading. Leaflets equalling or exceed- 

 ing the petiole. Flowers minute, purplish, in few-flowered racemes ; bracts simple or 

 3-tbliolate. Capsules 1-1 \ in., linear. Seeds minute, smooth. Indian specimens are 

 rather smaller than African. 



7. C. brachycarpa, Vahl ex DC. Prodr. i. 240 ; musky, glandular and 

 rough, leaves 3-5-foliolate upper simple, leaflets obovate or oblong, capsule 

 scaberulous. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 4 ; Edgew. I.e. vi. 

 184; Oliv. n. Trop. Afric. i. 77. C. Ruta. Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 19, t. 19. 

 C. Van liana, Fresen. ; and diversifolia, Hochst. 



N.W. INDIA, from Agra, Jamieson, westward to Peshawur, /Stewart; SINDH, Stocks. 

 DISTRIB. Arabia, Abyssinia. 



Perennial, 6-12 in., branched from the base. Leaflets \-\ in., lower petioled, floral 

 subsessile. Flowers |-4 in. long, yellow, long-peduncled, in leafy racemes. Capsules 

 in., oblong. Seeds minute, smooth. 



8. C. aspera, Koenig ex DC. Prodr. i. 241 ; branches glabrous prickly, 

 leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets equalling or exceeding the petioles, flowers 

 axillary, capsule sessile slender torulose. W. <k A. Prodr. 22 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6967 ; Wight Ic. t. 287. C. diffusa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 129. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; common in sandy soil. 



Annual, 6-18 in. ; branches many from the root, prickles minute. Leaflets \-\ in. 



