32 THALAM1FLOIUE. 



2. (?) Raphanus lanceolatus. West India Radish. 



Pods bilocular ventricose smooth, beak subtetrago- 

 nal, leaves lanceolate, those of the stem subdentate at 

 the apex. 



Willd. III. 562. De Cand. Syst. II. 669. 



HAB. Plantain-Garden-River bay. 



FL. February May. 



Herbaceous, a foot or more in height, erect : branches smooth, 

 angulose, striated : leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate, round- 

 ed at the apex ; those of the stem subdentate, of the branches 

 entire; attenuated at the base, nerveless. Raceme terminal. 

 Pedicels short, terete. Calyx 4-fid; divisions blunt. Petals 

 4, roundish, clawed. Stamens 6; anthers greenish-yellow. 

 Style thickened towards the ovary: stigma truncated with the 

 edge reflected. Silique upwards of an inch in length, bilocular, 

 contracted between the seeds, tetragonal and beaked towards 

 the extremity. 



ORDER XII. CAPPARIDE^E. 



Calycine sepals 4, either distinct, equal, or unequal ; 

 or cohering in a tube with the limb variable. Petals 

 4, cruciate, usually unguiculate and unequal. Sta- 

 mens generally perigynous, very seldom tetradyna- 

 mous, most frequently some high multiple of a qua- 

 ternary number, definite, or indefinite. Disk hemi- 

 spherical or elongated, generally glanduliferous. Ovary 

 stalked: style none or filiform. Fruit either pod- 

 shaped and dehiscent, or berried, l-celled, very rarely 

 1-seeded, most frequently with 2 polyspermous pla- 

 centae. Seeds generally reniform, exalbuminous : em- 

 bryo incurved : cotyledons leafy, flattish. 



Herbaceous plants, shrubs, and even trees, without true sti- 

 pules, but sometimes with spines in their place : leaves alter- 

 nate, simple or palmate The CAPPARIDE^E resemble the pre- 

 ceding Order, in respect to the properties possessed by many of 

 the species. The Capers are stimulant, antiscorbutic, and 

 aperient ; the bark of some of them is diuretic ; and sevei'al 

 species of CLEOME have the pungent taste of mustard. We 



