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6, CADABA, Forsk. 



C. INDICA, Lain. A small shrub, with small oblong glabrous 

 leaves; flowers terminal, whitish; siliqua linear. Syn. Cleome 

 fruticosa, Linn. ; Strcemia tetrandra, Vahl. ; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 678. 

 Guzerat and the Deccan. 



7. CAPPARIS, Linn. 



1. BREVISPINA, DC. A thorny shrub, with linear lanceolate 

 or oval leaves ; pedicles axillary solitary, one-flowered ; fruit glo- 

 bular, brio-lit scarlet, U inch in diameter. Western Deccan, 

 banks of nullahs, &c., near Vingorla. Syn. C. acuminata, Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. ii, p 566; C. Rheed. DO. Prod. 1, p 246; C. rotundifolia, 

 Rottl. and Willd. DC. Prod, ii, p 245. " Wagutty" of the Marathas. 

 Hook. Ic. PI t. 126. 



2. ROXBURGHII, DC. A shrub ; leaves elliptic oblong obtuse ; 

 racemes terminal corymbiform ; flowers large, white, handsome; 

 fruit bright scarlet, 3 inches in diameter. Syn. C. corymbosa, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng., p 93, Fl Ind. ii, 569 ; C. aguba, Roxb. in E. I. C. 

 mus. t. 158. On the Ghauts. Maratha name " Poorwi." The 

 unripe fruit when fresh cut smells like cresses. 



3. PEDUNCULOSA, Wall. Leaves roundish ovate, cordate at 

 the base, nearly sessile ; stipules thorny, hooked ; pedicles and calyx 

 glabrous ; umbels 2 to 5-flowered, sessile terminal ; fruit globose, 

 with several seeds. Vide Hook. Ic. 128. Mahableshwur, and 

 in the thickest jungles generally. 



4. MURRAYANA, I. Grab. Cat. Bom. PL A diffuse prostrate 

 shrub, with short recurved orange-coloured thorns ; leaves small, 

 roundish ; flowers white, large and showy ; anthers purple ; berry 

 oblong, many-seeded. Wight Ic. 379. At Mahableshwur, and in 

 most nullas and rivers, but along the ghauts as far north as the Malsej. 



5. FORMOSA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 41. Shrubby, 

 erect, unarmed ; leaves ovate or oblong, acute at both ends, or 

 lanceolate, younger ones covered with a stellate tomentum, easily 

 wiped off, older ones coriaceous glabrous, reticulately veined, shin- 

 ing, 5 inches long ; racemes corymbiform, few-flowered ; flowers 

 large, handsome, pale-blue, with a round yellow spot in the middle. 

 Chorla ghaut ; flowers in April. Syn. C. crerulea, Heyne. 



6. TENER, Dalz. in loc. cit. Shrubby, branched, glabrous ; 

 stipules short, thorny, hooked ; leaves short-petioled ovate lanceo- 

 late, glabrous, membranaceous, transparent ; pedicles axillary, 

 solitary filiform, one-flowered, shorter than the leaf; flowers small. 

 On the Ghauts ; rare, leaves 2 inches long. 



7. APHYLLA, Roxb. A large straggling much-branched shrub 

 or small tree ; leaves on the young shoots only, linear subulate ; 



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