Gymndropsis.] xi. capparide^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 171 



gate, stalked ; valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds 

 reniform, black, scabrous. 



1. G. pentaphylla, DC. Prodr. i. 238 ; leaflets broad-obovate acute or 

 obtuse entire or serrulate. W. d; A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. Cat. 6964. Cleome 

 pentaphylla, Linn.; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 126. — Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 34. 



Abundant throughout the -warm parts of India and all tropical countries. 



Erect, branched, 1-3 ft. Leaflets 1-2 in. Flowers J-§in. diam., white or purplish, 

 in glutinous racemes ; bracts 3-foliolate. Capsules 2-4 in., nearly glabrous, striated. 



3. NXEBVHBXA, DC. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves 1-5-foliolate ; stipules setaceous. 

 Flowers solitary or corymbose. Galyx-tvie ovoid; limb 4-cleft, valvate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens indefinite, united on the gynophore at about the level of 

 the top of calyx-tube ; filaments filiform, exserted. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled; 

 ovules many on 2 parietal placentas ; stigma subsessile. Perry ovoid, 

 1-seeded. Seed large ; cotyledons fleshy involute. — Disteib. Species about 

 8, tropical African and Asiatic. 



1. K. linearis, £>C. Prodr. i. 244 ; glabrous, leaves 3-5-foliolate, leaflets 

 ovate oblong linear or lanceolate, flowers racemed. Wall. Cat. 6975; 

 W. dsA. Prodr. 23 ; Wight Ic. t. 176 ; Hooh. Ic. PI. 1. 124. Capparis apetala, 

 Eoih. Nov. Sp. 238. C. linifolia, Roxb. Hort. Peng. 41, Cratseva apetala,. 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 448. 

 Hilly parts of the Caenatic, Roth, Wight, &c. • 

 • A small tree, bark pale grey. Leaflets 1-2 by \-\ in., equalling the petiole of the 

 leaf, minutely -wrinkled, shortly petiolulate ; 5 and linear in young plants. Racemes 

 1-2 in., terminal, few-flowered. Calyx \ in., persistent. Berry 4-§ in., ovoid or sub- 

 globose, 1-3-seeded; stalk 1-1 J in. 



4. laSBVA, ForskahL 



dimbing shrubs. Leaves simple. Flowers corymbose. Calyoa-ivhe lined 

 by a disk ; lobes 4, valvate. Petals 4 (in the Indian species), smeiller than the 

 calyx-lobes, ovate, inserted on the edge of the disk. Stamens many, inserted 

 high up on the gynophore, filaments exserted. Ovary long stalked, l-celled, 

 or 2-celled by the cohesion of the placentas ; ovules many, on 2-4 parietal 

 placentas. Berry fleshy, elongate, moniliform, 1- or more-seeded. Cotyledons 

 fleshy, involute.— Disteib. Species about 20, tropical Asiatic and African. 



1. Iff. arenaria, H. f. & T. ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves broad- 

 ovate acute or oblong and obtuse or retuse, corymbs terminal or on lateral 

 shoots, petals lanceolate acute. 



Western Himalaya, and Centbai, India, abundant : var. 2. Gangetic plain, about 

 Delhi arid Agra. 



AJarge woody climber. Leaves J-3 in. Flowers §-1 in. long, white. Calyx-tube 

 dilated upwards, about 4 as long as the limb. Berry 2-5 in., deeply_ constricted be- 

 tween the seeds — M. oblongifoUa of Arabia and Africa differs only in the cylindrio 

 calyx-tube eqlialling its limb. 



Vae. 1. glabra; glabrous and glaucous except the margins of the calyx-lobes. 

 Niebuhria arenaria and oblongifolia, DC. Prodr. i. 244 ; Wall. Cat. 6976 ; W. (& A. 

 Prodr. 24 in part; Hooh. Ic. PI. t. 127. Capparis heteroolyta, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 570. 



Vab. 2. scabra; young shoots and upper leaves scabrous, calyx softly pubescent. 

 M. Boabra and ovalifolia, Camb. inJacq. Voy. Bot. 22, t. 23, 24. Niebuhria oblongi- 

 folia, Moyle lU. 73. 



