Bb 
terete, rough with hairs, seasile: acuminated flowers smallish, 
yellow. 
A common weed among rubbish. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(3) P. retina. ( Dec.) 
Ident. W. &. A. prod. I. p. 22.—Dee. prod. I.-p. 242. 
Syn. Cleome felina, Linn. , 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IX. t. 23. 
Spec. Cuan. Thickly covered with prickly hairs: leaves trifo« 
liolate, hairy: leaflets broadly obovate, wedge-shaped, shorter than 
the petiole: siliqua compressed, glabrous, sessile, about the length 
of the peduncle. 
Courtallum. 
(4) P. simeticiroria. (Camb. ) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. fior. p. 8.-Camb. in Jacq. Voy. IV. p. 20. 
Engrav. Jacq. Voy. IV. t. 20. 
Spc. Cuan. Branches spreading, covered with rough hairs : 
leaves obovate, simple: siliqua subcylindric, glabrous, acuminated 
with the style: flowers axillary, solitary, purple. 
Poona, flowering in July and August. 
(6) P. Buurtrporgnsis. (Monro. ) 
Ident. Monro Hort. Agrensis, p. 85.—Wight’s Ic. IIT. p. 5. 
| Engrav. Wight’s Ic. t. 1072. 
_Spzc. Cuan. Stem and leaves covered with prickly hairs: leaves 
simple, oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, radical ones attenuated into 
a petiole, cauline ones sessile: stamens 10-12: siliqua linear, not 
compressed, about the length of the pedunele: flowers rose-coloured. 
Plains of Roobass, near Bhurtpore, flowering in September. 
GENUS IV. CRATAVA. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Cratevus, an early Greek Botanist. 
Gen. Cuan. Shrubs, without thorns: leaves trifoliolate: sepals 
4: petals 4, unguiculate, larger than the calyx: torus elongated : 
berry stalked, pulpy within. 
(1) C. Roxspurchu. (Br.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 28. 
Syn. ©. odora, Ham. in Linn. Soc. Trans.—C. Tapia, Vahl, 
Symb. IL. p. 61.—Capparis trifolia, Rob. fl. Ind, U1. p. 571, 
