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ERUCA SATIVA, Lam. " Rocket." Vern. Hind. Taranuri, Asan. 

 Found only run wild in Madras, cultivated in N. India. 



LEPIDIUM SATIVUM, Linn. " Garden Cress." Cultivated. 



RAPHANUS SATIVUS, Linn. " Radish." Vern. Hind. Muli. 

 Cultivated. 



SENEBIERA DIDYMA, Pers. " Lesser Wart-cress." Nilgiris. 



Family XI. CAPPARIDACEAE. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or climbing, rarely trees. Leaves alter- 

 nate or very rarely opposite, simple or palmately 3-9-foliolate ; 

 leaflets usually entire ; stipules spinescent or minute or 0. 

 Flowers solitary, racerned, corymbose or umbelled, regular or 

 rarely a little irregular, bisexual or rarely dioecious. Sepals 

 generally 4, free or connate, usually imbricate. Petals 4, rarely 

 0, or very rarely 2, imbricate, hypogynous or sometimes inserted 

 on the disk. Stamens usually 6, sometimes 4 or numerous, 

 hypogynous or perigynous or inserted at the base of or on a 

 long or short gynophore. Disk or annular or lining the tube 

 of the calyx. Ovary usually stalked, 1-celled ; stigma usually 

 capitate, sessile ; ovules many, amphi- or campylo-tropous, on 

 2-4 parietal placentas. Fruit a pod-like capsule or a berry 

 or rarely a drupe. Seeds angular or reniform, often imbedded 

 in pulp ; albumen 0, or thin ; embryo variously folded and 

 curved. 



Herbs with usually digitate leaves and capsular fruit : 



Ovary long-stalked, with 6 stamens inserted on the gynophore; leaves 



5-foliolate 1. Gynandropsis. 



Ovary sessile, with 12 or more stamens inserted on the disk or, if the 

 ovary is shortly stalked or stamens 6, then leaves 1-3-foliolate 



2. Cleome. 



Trees or shrubs with usually simple leaves and fruit usually a berry : 

 Calyx tubular below : 



Petals ; berry ovoid ; leaves 3-5-foliolate ; small trees 



3. Niebuhria. 



Petals 4 ; berry moniliform ; leaves simple; climbers ...4. Maerua. 

 Calyx divided to the base into 4 sepals : 



Stamens inserted on the middle of the gynophore ... 5. Cadaba. 



Stamens inserted on the base of the gynophore : 

 Leaves simple ; thorny or unarmed small trees or erect or climbing 



shrubs 6. Capparis. 



Leaves trifoliolate ; large unarmed trees 7. Crataeva. 



