CAPPARIDACEJE. 161 



is prolonged into a depressed truncated cone, with its small base 

 inferior. Its large base supports the gynaeceum, and is edged by a 

 disk forming a glandular ring. The short ovary, covered with rigid 

 hairs, is surmounted by a slender subulate style, whose stigmatiferous 

 apex is almost entire and scarcely expanded. Inside the ovary is seen 

 a usually complete vertical membranous septum ; in either cell is a 

 subbasilar placenta, bearing from two to four subcollateral ovules, 

 with the raphe dorsal and the micropyle downwards and inwards. 

 The fruit is, generally speaking, spherical in form, surmounting a pretty 

 long peduncle and bristling with conical prickles. On close inspection 

 we find an obtuse conical point, the true apex, which is brought down 

 towards the base by a sort of anatropy due to the almost complete 

 arrest of development in one of the cells of the ovary. This cavity 

 is found, small and sterile, close to the base of the fruit ; while in the 

 fertile cell we find a suberect ellipsoidal seed with its long axis hori- 

 zontal, containing inside its coats a ruminated albumen. The inferior 

 radicle is shortly conical ; the two cotyledons are enormous, membra- 

 nous and translucent, with laciniate edges, whose rumpled lobes spread 

 in all directions between the two laminae of each fold of the ruminated 

 albumen. B. lucidus Boj., the only known species of this genus, is a 

 glabrous shrub from Madagascar, with alternate simple leaves and 

 the habit of several Capparidacece. Its stipules are more or less united 

 into a single caducous triangular intrapetiolar organ. The flowers 

 are in pedunculate cymes (?) axillary to the leaves, or to the bracts 

 replacing them at the ends of the branches. 



V.? MOEINGA SERIES. 



Moringc? (figs. 180-190) has hermaphrodite irregular flowers; 

 their receptacle is cup-shaped, lined by a glandular disk with a 

 prominent free border ; on its oblique mouth are supported the 

 perianth and androceum, while the gynseceum springs from the 



1 Bttbm., Zeyl,, 162.— J., Gen., 348. — G.EBTy., Fam. Nat., 94.— B. H., Gen., 429, 1001. — H. 



Fnict., ii. 314. — Lame., Diet., i. 398; Suppl., Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 333. — Hyperanthera 



390, 613 ; III., t. 147.— DC, Mem. Legwm., t. Foese., Fl. Myypt.-Arab., 67. — Vahl, Syml., 



21 ; Prodr., ii. 478. — E. Be., in Denh. fy Clapp. i. 30. — Anoma Loue., Fl. CocMnch., 344. — 



Voy. App., 33. — DCNE.,in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, Alandina Nece., Elem., n. 1293.— Hypelate 



iv. 203, t. 6. — Exdl., Gen., n. 6811. — Payee, Sm., in Sees. Cyclop., xix. (nee P. Be.) 



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