Gynandropsis.} xi. CAPPARIDEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 171 



gate, stalked ; valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds 

 reuiform, black, scabrous. 



1. G-. pentaphylla, DC. Prodr. i. 238 ; leaflets broad-obovate acute or 

 obtuse entire or serrulate. W. & A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. Cat. 6964. Cleome 

 pentaphylla, Linn.; Moxb. FL Ind. ii. IZQRheede Uort. Mai. ix. t. 34. 



Abundant throughout the warm parts of India and all tropical countries. 

 Erect, branched, 1-3 ft. Leaflets 1-2 in. Flowers i- in. diam., white or purplish, 

 in glutinous racemes ; bracts 3-fbliolate. Capsules 2-4 in., nearly glabrous, striated. 



3. KIEBUHRIA, DC. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves 1-5-foliolate ; stipules setaceous. 

 Flowers solitary or corymbose. Calyx-tube ovoid; limb 4-cleft, valvate. 

 Petals 0. titamens indefinite, united on the gynophore at about the level of 

 the top of calyx-tube ; filaments filiform, exserted. Ovary stipitate, 1 -celled ; 

 ovules many on 2 parietal placentas ; stigma subsessile. Berry ovoid, 

 1 -seeded, tieed large ; cotyledons fleshy involute. DISTRIB. Species about 

 8, tropical African and Asiatic. 



1. N. linearis, DC. Prodr. i. 244 ; glabrous, leaves 3-5-foliolate, leaflets 

 ovate oblong linear or lanceolate, flowers racemed. Wall. Cat. 6975; 

 W.&A. Prodr. 23 ; Wight Ic. t. 176 ; Hook Ic. Pl..t. 124. Capparis apetala, 

 Roth. Nov. Sp. 238. 0. linifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 41. Crataeva apetala, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 448. 



Hilly parts of the CARNATIC, Roth, Wight, &c. 



A small tree, bark pale grey. Leaflets 1-2 by \-\ in., equalling the petiole of the 

 leaf, minutely wrinkled, shortly petiolulate ; 5 and linear in young plants. Racemes 

 1-2 in., terminal, few-flowered. Calyx 4 in., persistent. Berry - in., ovoid or sub- 

 globose, 1-3-seeded; stalk 1-1^ in. 



4. 1VI JERUA, Forskahl. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves simple. Flowers corymbose. Calyx-tube lined 

 by a disk ; lobes 4, valvate. Petals 4 (in the Indian species), smaller than the 

 calyx-lobes, ovate, inserted on the edge of the disk. Stamens many, inserted 

 high up on the gynophore, filaments exserted. Ovary long stalked, 1 -celled, 

 or 2-celled by the cohesion of the placentas ; ovules many, on 2-4 parietal 

 placentas. Berry fleshy, elongate, moniliform, 1- or more-seeded. Cotyledons 

 fleshy, involute. DISTRIB. Species about 20, tropical Asiatic and African. 



1. M. arenaria, H. f. & T. ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves broad- 

 ovate acute or oblong and obtuse or retuse, corymbs terminal or on lateral 

 shoots, petals lanceolate acute. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, and CENTRAL INDIA, abundant: var. 2. GANGETIC PLAIN, about 

 Delhi and Agra. 



A large woody climber. Leaves |-3 in. Flowers -1 in. long, white. Calyx-tube 

 dilated upwards, about 4 as long as the limb. Berry 2-5 in., deeply constricted be- 

 tween the seeds M. oblongifolia of Arabia and Africa differs only in the cylimlric 

 calyx-tube equalling its limb. 



VAR. 1. glabra; glabrous and glaucous except the margins of the calyx-lobes. 

 Niebuhria arenaria and oblongifolia, DC. Prodr. i. 244; Wail. Cat. 6976; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 24 in part; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 127. Capparis heteroclyta, fioxb. FL Ind. ii. 570. 



VAR. 2. scabra; young shoots and upper leaves scabrous, calyx softly pubescent. 

 M. scabra and ovali'folia. Camb. in Jacq, Voy. Bot. 22, t. 23, 24. Niebuhria oblougi- 

 folia, JRoyle 111 73. 



