tfiebuhria.] CAPPAEIDACEAE. 41 



Stem and leaves asperous with minute scattered prickles ; 



stamens 6; flowers pink 6. aspcni. 



Leaves 5-9-foliolate ; capsule 40 times as long as broad ; stamens 

 numerous; flowers rose 7. Chelidonii. 



1. CLEOME VISCOSA, Linn. ; F. B. I i. 170. Polanisia icosandra, 

 W. & A. 22 ; Wt. Ic. t. 2. 



A common weed, in fields and waste places, in all Districts. 



2. CLEOME MONOPHYLLA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 168 ; W. & A. 21. 



A weed of fields and waste places, in all Districts. 



3. CLEOME TENELLA, Linn. f. ; F. B. I. i. 169 ; W. & A. 21. 



Dry, usually sand}% places in the Carnatic Districts from 

 Nellore to Tinnevelly and S. Travancore. 



4. CLEOME BURMANNI, W. & A. 22 ; F. B. I. i. 170. 



Fields and dry places in the Carnatic Districts. 



5. CLEOME FELINA, Linn. f. ; F. B. I. i. 170 ; W. & A. 22. 



Deccan and Carnatic Districts, in dry places, often on 

 black cotton soil. 



6. CLEOME ASPERA, Koenig ; F. B. I. i. 169 ; W. & A. 22 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 287. 



Sandy fields and waste places in the N. Circars, Deccan 

 and Carnatic, up to 2,000 ft. in the hills. 



7. CLEOME CHELIDONII, Linn. f. ; F. B. I. i. 170. Polanisia 

 Chelidonii, DC. ; W. & A. 22 ; Wt. Ic. t. 319. 



Moist places as on the borders of rice-fields, in the N. 

 Circars and Deccan Districts. 



3. Niebuhria, DC. 



Small trees, unarmed. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; stipules setaceous. 

 Racemes few-flowered, terminal or axillary. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 

 limb 4-cleft, lobes valvate. Petals 0. Stamens numerous, spread- 

 ing from the gynophore at about the level of the top of the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled ; ovules many on 2 parietal 

 placentas; stigma subsessile. Berry ovoid, 1-seeded, on a long 

 gynophore. Seed large with fleshy involute cotyledons. 



NIEBUHRIA APETALA, Dunn. N. linearis, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 171 ; 

 W. & A. 23 ; Wt. Ic. t. 174. Capparis apetala, Both. 



A small unarmed tree with axillary and terminal racemes of 

 small dark greenish-purple flowers. Gynophore more than 

 1 in. long. 



