Cbat^ta.] CAPFAEIDEJS. &1 



G. pentaphylla, DC'. Trod, i, 238 ; W. <S^ A. Prod. 21 ; Royle 111. 72 ; 

 D. 4- G. Bomh. Fl.7 ; F. B. I. i. 171 ; Watt E. D. Cleome pentaphylla 

 L. ,• Roxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 126. Vern. Eulhul. 



Erect, TDranching, gland-pubescent, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 5-foliolate ; 

 leaflets 1-2 in. sessile, broadly obovate, acute or obtuse, entire or serru- 

 late. Flowers- in corymbs, |-| in. in diam., white or purplish, very 

 yiscid. Bracts S-foliolate. Sepals erect. Capsule 2-4 in., rarely glab- 

 rous, striated. Stigma sessile, capitate. 



Abundant within the area, flowering during the rainy season. 

 DiSTEiB. : A common -weed in all tropical^countries. The leaves are 

 eaten as a pot-herb ; the seeds are medicinal, and are said to be used 

 also for poisoning fish. 



3. MiERUA. Forsk. ; Fl. Brit. Ind, i. 171. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves simple. jP/ower^ in corymbs. CalfX' 

 tube lined by a disk ; lobes 4, valvate. Petals 4 or 0, smaller than 

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

 many, inserted high up on the gynophore ; filaments exserted. Ovafy 

 long, stalked, l-celled, or 2-celled by the cohesion of the placentas. 

 Berry fleshy, elongate, moniliform, 1-or more-seeded. — Tropical Asia 

 and Africa. 



M. arenaria, H?c. /. Sf T. in F. B. I. i, 171 . 

 A large woody glabrous or pubescent climber. Leaves ^-S in., broadly 



ovate, acute, obtuse or retuse. CorT/m&s terminal or on lateral shoots. 



Flowers f-l in. long, white. Caly x-tuhe dilated upwards, hall the length 



of the limb. Berry 2-5 in. long, deeply constricted between the seeds. 

 Vab. 1. glabra F. B. I. I.e.; Nieburhia arenaria & oblongifolia, DC; 



W. Sf A. Brad. 24 {in part). Capparis heteroclita, Roxh. Fl. Ind. n, 570 ; 



glabrous and glaucous except the margins of the cal. -lobes. — Gwalior,. 



Bundelkhand. Disteib. : Punjab, Central and S. India, and CeyLon. 



Roxburgh says that the unripe fruit is boiled and eaten. 



Tab. 2. scabra, F. B. I. I.e. M. scabra & ovalifolia, Camh. in Jacquem. 

 Toy. Bot. 23 t.t. 23 and 24. Nieburhia oblongifolia, Royle III. 73: 

 young shoots and upper leaves 'scabrous ; calyx softly pubescent.— 

 In the neighbourhood of Agra and Delhi, also in Merwara. Distkib. :. 

 Punjab. 



4. CRAT.fflVA. Linn. ; Fl. ^-it. Ind, i. 172. 



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

 polygamous. Sepals 4, inserted on the edge of a large lobed disk* 

 Petals 4, long-clawed, open in bud. Stamens many, adnate to the 

 base of the gynophore. Ovary on a slender stalk, l-celled. Stigma 

 sessile, depressed. Ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Berry 

 fleshy. >Se(?<?« imbedded in pulp. 



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