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as the petals, the filaments white; fruit long-linear, 6-20 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. 

 thick, more or less torulose, about twice as long as the slender gynophore, 

 tardily opening longitudinally, its pulp scarlet. 



Scrub-lands and thickets, Andros. Exuma Chain, Lonj; and Acklin's Island : — 

 Florida ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Barbadoes ; continental tropical America. 



CAFEIt-TKEE. 



Crataeva Tapia L., reported by Dolley, we have been unable to find in the 

 archipelago. It is native of Jamaica, Martinique and of tropical continental Amer- 

 ica, and is unlikely to have been found in the Bahamas, unless planted. 



Family 4. MORINGACEAE Dumort. 



HORSERADISH-TREE FAMILY. 



Trees wdtb alternate, 2-3-pinnate. deciduous leaves, and perfect, slig:htl> 

 irregular flow^ers in large axillaiy panicles. Sepals 5, unequal, imbricated, 

 reflexed or spreading, sligbtl}^ united at the base. Petals 5, somewhat 

 unequal, the lower one reflexed. Stamens 5, with slender filaments and 

 1-celled anthers, alternating with as many staminodia. Ovary 1-celled, with 

 3 parietal placentae, bearing numerous pendulous ovules; style slender; 

 stigma minute. Capsule elongated, angled, beaked, 3-valved. Seeds 3- 

 winged or ^vingless; endosperm none; embryo straight, the cotyledons large. 

 Only the following genus. 



1. MORINGA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 318. 1763. 



Characters of the family. [Malabar name.] Three known species, natives 

 of Asia and Africa, the following typical. 



1. Moringa Moringa (L.) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 1: 490. 1902. 



Guilandina Moringa L. Sp. PI. 381. 1753. 



Moringa pterygosperma Gaertn. Fr. & Sem. 2: 314. 1791. 



A tree, up to 9 m. high, the bark corky, rough, the puberulcnt twigs slender. 

 Leaves 3-6 dm. long, their segments and leaflets opposite ; leaflets numerous, 

 thin, oblong to obovate, 1-2 em. long, obtuse, entire; flowers numerous, fra- 

 grant; pedicels 5-10 mm. long; sepals linear to linear-oblong, 9-13 mm. long, 

 reflexed; petals nearly white, a little larger than the sepals; capsule linear, 

 3-angled, pendulous, 2-4.5 dm. long, 1-2 cm. thick; seeds winged, 2.5-3 cm. 

 long. 



Thickets, spontaneous after cultivation. New Providence, near Nassau ; Grand 

 Turk : — ^Florida ; West Indies ; Mexico to Tanama. Native of the Kast Indies. 



HORSERADISH-TEEE. 



Order 12. ROSALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, the flowers usually petaliferous and the petals 

 distinct. Stamens mostly perigynous or epigynous. Sepals mainly united 

 or confluent with the concave receptacle. Carpels one or more, distinct or 

 sometimes united into a compound ovary. 



Endosperm copious, fleshy: leaves without stipules. Fam. 1. Ckassi-l.xceak. 



Endosperm little or none ; leaves with stipules. 

 Flowers regular. 



Ovary 2-ovuled : fruit a drupe: leaves simple. Fam. 2. Amyod.vl.vceae. 



Ovary several-ovuled ; fruit a legume ; leaves com- 

 pound. Fam. .?. MiMOSACEAa 

 Flowers irregular : fruit a legume or a loment. 



Upper petal enclosed by the lateral ones in the 



bud. Fam. 4. Caesai.pinaceae. 



Upper petal enclosing the lateral ones In the bud. Fam. 5. Fabaceae. 



