CATTAIUDE-i:. ."? 



8mm. long, glabrous; Mules of the leave* 10 cm. long, 5.2 cm. broad; 

 stipules spiny, straight, very much shorter tliaii the petioles, but sometimes 

 nearly equally long. Flowers 4-6-clustered, clusters superaxillary ; pedicels 

 nearly glabrous, G mm. long. Sepals 4, distinct, imbricate, ovately elliptical, 

 acute, glabresceut on lx>th sides, t unentose inside and also on the margin. 

 Petals 4, white, imbricate, linear-oblong, obtuse, tomentose on the margin 

 towards the apex, or glabresceut, 8-13 mm. long, 4 mm. broad. Stamens 

 12-16, thread like, white, 26-30 mm. long, anthers oblong, yellowish glabrous. 

 Ovary subglobose, glabrous, long stalked i stalks 19mm. long\ 1-celled, 

 placentas 4, ovules numerous ; stigma sessile. 



This is very near C. mlcrantha from which it is distinguishable only 

 iu the venation of the leaves. 



HAB. Takow, Koshun, Fuko, Boryo, Eioritsu, Hokko. 



DISTEIB. An endemic plant. 



5. Cratn'va LINN. 



Crataeva religiosa FOKST. ; DC'. Fixxlr. I. p. 243 ; HOOK. f. PI. Brit. 

 Ind. I. p. 172 ; OLTV. Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 99 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 51 ; HEXBY List PL Forrnos. p. 18 ; ITO et MATSOF. Tent. FL 

 Lutch. p. 30o ; MATSOI. et HAY ATA Euiuii. PL Formos. p. 27. 



Capparis falcata LOUE. Fl. Cochinch. ed-"SViLLD. p. 4<>-~>. 



Capparis magna LOUR. Fl. Cochiiich. ed-WnxD. p. 405. 



Cratceva Adansonii DC. Pi-odi 1 . I. p. 243. 



Crataeva falcata DC. Prodr. I. p. 243. 



Cratceva Ictta DC. Pixxii-. I. p. 243. 



Cratceva magna DC. Pixxlr. I. p. 243. 



Cr>'tceva trifdiata ROXB. Fl. Ind. II. p. 571. 



HAB. Kelung, Pachina, Ako. 



DISTEIB. Clmia, India, tropical Africa. 



