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surfaces, the reticulations minute, distinct, ovate to ovate-oblong, sh rtly acuminate 
the base rounded or cordate, 7-nerved (4 of the nerves minute); length of blade 3 to 4 
in. breadth 1:5 to 2 in., petiole about 1 in. Male and female panicles sub-equal, slen- 
der, solitary, axillary, shorter than the leaves. Male flowers crowded, minute; sepals 
4, connate into an inflated 4-lobed calyx. Petals 4, more or less connate into a 
4-lobed corolla, Anthers 4, connate, crowning the staminal column, bursting transversely, 
Female flower: sepal 1, oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1; style short, 3-to 5-lobed, 
lobes radiating. ^ Drupe pisiform, slightly compressed, style-scar subbasal; endocarp 
horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides convex, 2-locellate, pulp thin. Seed curved; 
cotyledons slender, i-terete, appressed. 
Perak; at elevations of from 1,500 to 2,000 feet; King’s collector, Scortechini. A slender creeper 
15 to 25 feet long: not common. 
Prate 132. Cyclea elegans, King. 1, flowering branch: of natural size; 2, section of seed; 3 and 4, embryo; 
5 and б, male flowers; 7, staminal column; 8, anthers: enlarged. 
PLATE 1334. 
CLEOME Нилетти, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pi. 2, p. 392. 
Nat. Ord. Capparidec. 
A much-branched, sub-decumbent, small shrub; the stem striate, puberulous, and 
with a few short prickles in distant pairs. Leaves dimorphous; those of the lower 
part of the stem petiolate, trifolioclate, the leaflets obovate; those of the upper part 
simple, sessile, ovate; all pubescent and from “5 to 75 in. long. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, about *5 in. in diam., on slender pedicels longer than the leaves. Sepals 4, 
ovate, spreading, much smaller than the petals. Petals 4, rotund, narrowly clawed. 
Stamens 6, the filaments longer than the anthers. Ovary sessile, oblong, style 0. 
Cupsules terete, striate, glabrous, from 1 to 1:5 in. long; seeds large, muricate, the 
embryo curved, 
Singapore, in dry place by roadsides. 
This is allied to the Peninnsular Indian species С. aspera, Koen, and С. Burmanni, М. & A. 
but differs from both in its dimorphous leaves. 
Ртате 133A. Cleome Hullettii, King. 1, branch in flower and fruit; 2, ripe capsule dehiscing: of natural size; 
3, flower dissected ; 4, seeds: enlarged. 
Capparis, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, erect, decumbent or climbing, unarmed, or with stipular thorns. 
Leaves simple, rarely 0. Flowers white or coloured, often handsome. Sepals 4, free, 
imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalvate. Petals 4, sessile, imbricate, Stamens 
indefinite, inserted on the torus at the base of the long gynophore. Ovary stalked, 
1 to 4-celled; stigma sessile; ovules many, on 2 to 6 parietal placentas. Fruit 
fleshy, rarely bursting by valves. Seeds many, imbedded in pulp, testa crustaceous or 
coriaceous; cotyledons convolute, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD. Carc, Vor. У. 
