224 BENGAL PLANTS. 
filled with pulp between the seeds or open. Seeds panty 
globose ; cotyledons induplicate. Ua 
76. Rapwanus sativus Linn.; F. I. iii, 126; F. B. Li. 166. 
A cold weather crop. i: 
An annual herb. Beng. Mula. The Radish. 
Order XI. CAPPARIDEA. 
Herbs or shrubs, erect or climbing, rarely trees. Leaves alter 
nate, rarely opposite, simple or Tea compound ; ope 
erbaceous, setaceous, or spinous, or 0. Flowers regular or ute 
gular, usually hermaphrodite, han showy, in terminal racemes of 
corymbs, or axillary in fascicles, or solitary. Disk tumid, lining the 
calyx-tube, or 0. Sepals 4 or 6 or 8, free or connate, 1-2-seriate, 
subequal or somewhat irregular, valvate or imbricate or outer only 
valvate or open. Petals 4, rarely 2 or absent, hypogynous or pet 
EyHons; imbricate or new and open | in bad. Stamens Aa more, 
alow: 
i 
ealhacs —— subdorsifixed dehiscence longitudinal ae 
oO 
usually short or 0; stigma depressed or capitate ; ovules a 
1-many-seriate on the placentas, rarely solitary, amphitropous ¢ 
campylotropous. Fruit a 1-locular elongated capsule, or mee 
Herbs with slender capsular fruits —— 
St tamens arising sjiegs the Sisk; npetals teabelonis(t in bud ; leaves sige 
tamens arising trom the esmophore petals open in cc late 
iit Nes te with stamens 6 drops. 
Shrubs or t ovoid, eee usually ‘auitbodle fruits; 
stamens many, rarely definite :— 
imbing shrubs with simple leaves and stipulary thorns ; oe 4, ime 
seule pon ie Oi Shirk 
Trees with digitately trifoliolate leaves, unarmed ; ate 4, mp in 
bud, cohering below with a convex | obed disk Craters 
wee eeeeeeeeenerere 
