116 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS 
(See Fig. 100.) Reseda is the most important genus, and includes the 
fragrant garden mignonette (2. odorata). A yellow dye and paint is 
obtained from the yellow-weed or dyers’-weed of Europe, R. Luteola. 
Family Moringaceae. Moringa Fam- 
ily. Consists of a single genus, Mo- 
ringa, with 3 species, natives of south- 
ern Asia. They are trees with pinnate 
leaves and clusters of rather conspic- 
uous flowers, the calyx and corolla 
each with five divisions; stamens 8 or 
10; ovary simple, stalked, becoming in 
Fig. 100. Flower and fruit of dyer’s 5 - 
weed (Reseda Luteola) twice natural size. fruit a 3-valved spongy capsule. The 
Original. winged seeds of VW. pterygosperma are 
called ben-nuts, and yield a clear fluid oil much used by watchmakers; 
the roots are pungent, like those of the horseradish. 
