172 xi. CAPPARIDEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Cratfcca. 



5. CRATJEVA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers large, yellow or purplish, polygamous. 

 Sepals 4, cohering below with the convex lobed disk. Petals 4, long-clawed, 

 open in bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to the base of the gynophore. 

 Ovary on a slender stalk, 1 -celled; stigma sessile, depressed ; ovules many, 

 on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fleshy. Seeds imbedded in pulp. DISTRIB. 

 Species about 6, tropical and cosmopolitan. 



" 1. C. relig-iosa, Forst.; DC. Prodr. i. 243; leaflets ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate appearing with the large greenish yellow at length purplish 

 flowers. Capparis 3-foliata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 571. 



Near streams in MALABAR and CANARA ; cultivated elsewhere in India. DISTRIB. 

 Trop. Africa. 



1 A spreading, unarmed, deciduous tree. Leaves long-petioled ; leaflets 3-6 by 1^-2? in., 

 abruptly or gradually acuminate, pale beneath. Flowers 2-3 in. diain., in terminal 

 corymbs. Petals ovate or oblong, obtuse or acute ; claw | as long as the limb. Berry 

 1-2 in. diu.ni., many-seeded. Very variable. Intermediates may be found between the 

 following varieties. The form of the ovary and fruit does not always correspond with 

 that of the leaflets. Imperfect specimens of a Mergui species of Griffith, with large 

 broad obtuse thick coriaceous leaves, may be different. 



VAR. 1. Nurvala; leaflets ovate-lanceolate taper-pointed, berry ovoid. C. Nurvala, 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 122 ; Wall. Cat. 6973; W. & A. Prodr. 23,Jihecde 

 Bort. Malab. iii. t. 42. 



VAR. 2. lioxburyldi ; leaves small ovate-lanceolate abruptly acuminate, berry glo- 

 bose. C. Koxburghii, Br. in Denh. & Clapp. Travds. AJI/>. 224 ; II . <!' A. Prodr. 23; 

 Hook. lc. PL t. 178. C. odora, religiosa and uuilocularis, Ham. I.e.; Wall. Cat. 6972. 



6. CADAB A, Forskahl. 



Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flowers solitary corym- 

 bose or racemed. Sepals 4, unequal, 2-seriate, 2 outer valvate. Petals 4, or 2, 

 rarely 0, clawed, hypogynous. Disk equalling the petal-claw, trumpet- 

 shaped or spathulate, with a tubular claw. Stamens 4-6, unilateral on the 

 slender gynophore ; filaments filiform, exserted, spreading. Ovary long- 

 stalked, 1-celled ; stigma sessile : ovules many on 2-4 parietal placentas. 

 Fruit fleshy, slender, cylindric, Denied or dehiscing tardily upwards by 



2 valves, which leave the pulpy placentas. Seeds subglobose, te.^ta cartila- 

 ginous ; cotyledons convolute. DISTKLB. Species about 12, tropical and 

 subtropical African and Asiatic. 



r 1. C. trifoliata, W. & A. Prodr. 24; leaves palmately 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets oblong or lanceolate, petals 2, stamens 6, fruit tardily dehiscent. 

 C. triphylla, Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. 296, Suppl. t. 37. Strcemeria trifo- 

 liata, Roxb. Fl. Lid. ii. 79. Desmocarpus missionis, Wall. Cat. 6798. 



Southern parts of the CARNATIC, Berry, &c. Drier parts of CEYLON. 



A rigid branched shrub, bark brown, shoots rather hairy. Leaflets 2 in. ; petioles 

 ^-| in. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in few-flowered, axillary and terminal corymbs. >V//^/,s 

 pale green, membranous, oblong, outer 1| in. Petals 2 in., yellowish-white, limb sub- 

 orbicular. Disk-limb bright yellow, recurved. Capsule 2-4 in., valves brittle. 



2. C. indica, Lamk.; DC; Prodr. i. 244 ; leaves simple ovate or oblong 

 acute obtuse or mucronate, petals 4 limb oblong, stamens 4, fruit dehiscent. 

 W<ill, Cat. 6977; W. & A. Prodr. 24; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 9. iS 

 meria tetrandra, Vahl; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 78. Cleome fruticosa, Linn. 



