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CAPPARIDE^: 



Conspectus of genera. 



Cappaeis Fruit berry-like or drupaceous. Leaves simple. Corolla imbricate. 

 Ckataeva. As former. Leaves 3-5-foliolate. Corolla open in bud. 



CAPPARIS. 



All softer part tomentose while young ; flowers corymbose ; calyx and pedicels densely 



tomentose, C. grandis. 



CRATAEVA. 



Flowers corymbose ; fruits globose, . ^ C. Roxburghii} 



VIOLACE^. 

 Conspectus of genera. 

 Alsodeia. Corolla regular ; staminodes none. 



ALSODEIA. 



Flowers in erect pubescent racemes, A. longiracemosa. 



BIXINE^. 

 Conspectus of genera. 



* Petals broad, contorted, without a scale or basal appendage. Anthers opening by pores or short slits. 

 CocHLOSPEKMUM.-^Capsnle almost 3-5-valved. Seeds pilose or lanate. 



BiXA. Capsule 2-Talved. Seeds glabrous. 



* * Petals small, imbricate, or none. Anthers short, opening by slits. 

 ScoLoPiA. Flowers bisexual. Petals 4-6. 



Flacourtia. Flowers usually dioecious. Petals none. 



* * Flowers dioecious. Petals with an aduate scale or basal appendage. 

 Gtnocardia. Sepals connate. Staniens free. 



Hydnocarpus. Sepals free. , 



Kyparia. Sepals connate. Stamens united in a column. 



COCHIOSPERUM.-Only species, C. Gossypium. 



BIXA.-Ouly species, B. Orellana. 



SCOLOPIA. 



Berries oblong, the size of an olive, S. Roxburghii. 



FLACOURTIA. 



* Stigma simple, subulate (not thickened at the ends). 



Berries as large as a pepper-kernel ; seeds smooth, convex on back, F. Sumatrana. 



* * Styles short, or nearly wanting, thickened and truncate at aj}ex, or more or less 



bluntish 2-lobed. 



t Leaves acuminate. Seeds compressed and quite flat. 



Armed glabrous or nearly so ; berries as large as a cherry, F. cataphracta. 



As former, but unarmed F. inermis. 



Branchlets and leaves tawny pubescent, unarmed. (Seeds unknown), t. mollis. 



\ \ Leaves blunt or nearly so. Berries of the size of a pea ; seeds convex on the 

 back. 



Leaves coriaceous, 3 4_in long. Armed, F. sapida. 



Unarmed or only with few short axillary spines; leaves membranous, 1-1| la, 



long, F. rotundifolia. 



GYNOCAROIA.-Only species, q^ odorata. 



HYDNOCARPUS. 



Male flowers apparently solitary ; petals glabrous, ...,H. castanoua. 



Male flowers shortly racemed ; petals pubescent and villous- fringed, .M. lieterophiUus. 



RYPARIA.-Only species, 2^. caesia. 



. .Note : 1 ^ C. religiosa of App. A. 



