172 XI. CAPPARiDEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Cratesva. 



5. CRATSIVA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers large, yellow or purplish, polygamous. 

 Sepah 4, cohering below witk the convex lobed disk. Petals 4, long-clawed, 

 open in bud. Stamens indefinite, adnate to the base of the gynophore. 

 Ovary on a slender stalk, 1-celled; stigma sessile, depressed ; ovules many, 

 on 2 parietal placentas. Berry fleshy. Seeds imbedded in pulp. — Distetb. 

 Species about 6, tropical and cosmopolitan. 



' I.e. relig^iosa, Forst; DC. Prodr. i. 243; leaflets ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate appearing with the large greenish yellow at length purplish 

 flowers. Capparis 3-foliata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. n. 671. 



Near streams in Malabar and Canaea ; cultivated elsewhere in India. — Distbib, 

 Trop. Africa. 



■ A spreading, unarmed, deciduous tree. iea»es long-petioled; leaflets 3-6 by lJ-24 in., 

 abruptly or gradually acuminate, pale beneath. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in terminal 

 corymbs. Petals ovate or oblong, obtuse or acute ; claw j as long as the limb. Berry 

 1-2 in, diam., many-seeded. — Very variable. Intermediates may be found between the 

 following varieties. The form of the ovary and fruit does not always correspond with 

 that of the leaflets. Imperfect specimens of a Mergui species of Griffith, with large 

 broad obtuse thick coriaceous leaves, may be different. 



Tar. 1. Nurvala; leaflets ovate-lanceolate taper-pointed, berry ovoid. C. Nurvala,' 

 Earn, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 122 ; Wall. Gat. 6973 ; W. & A. ProAr. 23.—Sheede 

 Eart. Malah. iii. t. 42. 



Var. 2. Boxhurghii ; leaves small ovate-lanceolate abruptly acuminate, berry glo- 

 bose. C. Roxburghii, Br. in Denh. & Clapp. Travels, Ajm.224: ; W. & A. Prodr. 23; 

 Eodk. Ic. PI. t. 178. C. odora, religiosa and uniloculaiis, Ham. I.e.; Wall. Cat. 6972. 



6. CADABA, Forskahl. 



Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flowers solitary corjon- 

 bose or racemed. Sepals 4, unequal, 2-seriate, 2 outer valvate. Petals 4, or 2, 

 rarely 0, clawed, hypogynous. Dish equalling the petal-claw, trumpet- 

 shaped or spathulate, with a tubular claw. Stamens 4r-6, unilateral on 'the 

 slender gynophore; filaments fiUform, exserted, spreading. Ovary long- 

 stalked, 1-celled ; stigma sessile ; ovules many on 2-4 parietal placentas. 

 Fruit fleshy, slender, cylindric, berried or dehiscing tardily upwards by 

 2 valves, which leave the pulpy placentas. Seeds subglobose, testa cartila- 

 ginousj cotyledons convolute. — DiSTEiB. Species about 12, tropical, and 

 subtropical African and Asiatic. 



' 1. C. trifoliata, W. <Ss A. Prodr. 24; leaves palmately 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets oblong or lanceolate, petals 2, stamens 6, fruit tardily dehiscent. 

 C. triphylla, Wight in Hook. Bat. Misc. 296^ Suppl. t. 37. Stroemeria trifo- 

 liata, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 79. Desmocarpus missionis, Wcdl. Cat. 6798. 



Southern parts of the Carnatic, Berry, &c. Drier parts of Ceylon. 



A rigid branched shrub, bark brown, shoots rather hairy. Leaflets 2 in. ; petioles 

 J-J in. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in few-flowered, axillary and terminal corymbs. SepdU 

 pale green, membranous, oblong, outer IJ in. Petals 2 in., yellowish-white, limb sub- 

 orbicular. Disk-limb bright yellow, recurved. Capsule 2-4 in., valves brittle. 



2. C. Indloa, Lamh.j DC. Prodr. i. 244; leaves simple ovate or oblong 

 acute obtuse or mucronate, petals 4 limb oblong, stamens 4, fruit dehiscent. 

 WaU. Cat. 6977; W.& A. Prodr. 24; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 9. Stroe- 

 meria tetrandra, Yahl ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 78. Cleome fraticosaj LinTi. 



