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Stec. Cian. Climbing shrub: leaves simple, oval-oblong: -pe- 
tals equal, lanceolate, waved, acute, scarcely half the length of the 
divisions of the calyx: fruits constricted between the seeds, re~ 
sembling a necklace : flowers small, pale-green. 
Courtallum. Cuddalore. In hedges in Guzerat and the Deccan. 
Flowering from December to -Februaty. The leaves vary on the 
same individual. 
GENUS VI. CADABA. 
‘S@trandria Monogynia; Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Kadhdb, the Arabic name of one of the species. 
Gen. Cuak: Shrubs with simple, or rarely trifoliolate leaves; 
usually without thorns: sepals 4, two interior ones smaller, and 
more coloured than the others: petals 4, or 2, with long claws, or 
none: torus erect, bearing the fruit-stalk at its base on the opposite 
Bide from the two middle petals : filaments united below, eohering 
with the fruitestalk for nearly half its length: berry many-seeded: 
(1) C.Inprca. (Lam. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 24.—Dee, prod. I. p. 244. 
Syn. Cleome fruticosa, Linn.—-Streemia tetrandta, Vahl.— Roxb, 
fi. Ind. II. p78 
Engrav. Burm. flor. tnd. t. 46. f. 3. ke eae 
Srxc. Caan. Shrub, without thorns: leaves elliptic-oblong, of 
broad Ianceolate: petals 4; immersed in firm pulp: siliqua linear : 
flowers terminal, whitish. eg i 
.. Common in dry soil. Guzerat and the Deccan. Flowering near- 
ly all the year. 
(2) ©, rrirotrara. (W. § A.) 
Ident: W. & A; prod. I. p, 24. 
Syn. C. triphylla, Wight Streemia trifoliata, Rowb. fl. Ind. Vs 
p. 79. oe ee 
Engrat, Wightin Hook. Bot, Misc. t. 37. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub, without thorns: leaves trifoliolate : leaf 
lets ovate-oblong, glabrous: calyx of two opposite pairs of oyate- 
oblong veined leaflets, the outer pair larger; the inner more deeply 
coloured: petals 2, large, round, pure white, beautifully veined, 
and elevated on claws, which ascend opposite the pedicel of fructi- 
: fieation : torus hofn-shaped; curving, with a perforated apex, border 
reflected, the whole- of a bright-yellow colour: stamens 6, elevated 
on a long pedicel, opposite the petals. 
Courtallam, flowering in July and August, 
