214 A FLORA OP MANILA 



indehiscent beak. Seeds 1-seriate; cotyledons usually conduplicate. (Latin 

 name of the cabbage.) 



Species about 80 in the temperate parts of the Old World, a few intro- 

 duced in the Philippines. 



1. B. JUNCEA (L.) Coss. Mostaza (Sp.-Fil.). 



An erect, branched, glabrous annual 0.4 to 1 m high. Leaves 5 to 16 cm 

 long, or in some cultivated forms much larger, thin, oblong-obovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, irregularly toothed or subentire, or the lower ones lobed or pinna- 

 tifid. Flowers yellow, 6 to 8 mm long. Pods ascending, linear-lanceolate, 

 1.5 to 3 cm long, somewhat contracted between the seeds, the beak seedless. 



Commonly cultivated, also occasional in waste places, fl. all the year; 

 certainly an introduced^ plant in the Philippines. Europe to India and 

 China, introduced in other regions. 



The form commonly cultivated by Chinese gardeners, known as "pechai," 

 seems to be a form of B. jitncea (L.) Coss. Cabbage {S^p., repollo=Bra8sica 

 oleraced L.) is also commonly cultivated in and about Manila and in many 

 of the provinces; it is a native of Europe. 



3. RAPHANUS Linnaeus 



Coarse, erect, glabrous or hairy herbs, usually with fleshy tap roots. 

 Leaves lyrately or pinnately lobed. Flowers large, white to pale-purplish, 

 in elongated racemes. Sepals erect, the lateral ones saccate at the base. 

 Pod indehiscent, elongated, constricted between the seeds, and with a long 

 beak. (The ancient Greek name.) 



Species about 6, in Europe and Asia, 1 introduced and cultivated in the 

 Philippines. 



*1. R. SATivus L. Rabano (Sp.) ; Radish. 



A coarse, erect, branched plant 0.5 to 1.5 m high, from a fleshy tap root, 

 the leaves up to 20 cm long, lyrately lobed, rough and somewhat hairy or 

 nearly glabrous. Flowers white to pale-purple, about 1.5 cm long. Pods 

 lanceolate, long-beaked, acuminate, few seeded, 2 to 6 cm long. 



Commonly cultivated. Occasionally flowering. A native of Europe or Asia, 

 introduced here and very generally cultivated. 



59. CAPPARIDACEAE (CAPER OR Dauag Family) 



Herbs,, shrubs, or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves simple or palmately 

 compound, alternate, the stipules 2 or none, sometimes represented by sharp 

 spines. Flowers regular or irregular, perfect, solitary, racemed, umbelled 

 or corymbose, terminal or axillary. Sepals 4, free or connate. Petals 4, 

 hypogynous or inserted on the disk. Stamens 4 to many, sometimes inserted 

 on a long or short gynophore. Ovary stalked or sessile, 1-celled; style short 

 or none; ovules many, on 2 to 4 parietal placentae. Fruit a capsule or 

 berry-like. 



Genera 40, species over 400, in the warmer part of both hemispheres, 5 

 genera and 20 species in the Philippines. 



1. Erect or climbing spiny shrubs vrith simple leaves i; Capparia 



1. Herbs with digitately compound leaves. 



2. Stamens inserted on the disk; petals imbricate in bud 2. Cleome 



2. Stamens inserted on the gynophore; petals spreading in bud. 



8. Gynandropsis 



