1889.] G. Kmg— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 391 



witli a dabbed appendage. Ovaries many, 1-celled, sunk in tbe flat 

 topof an obconic fleshy torus, attachment lateral; style very short, ex- 

 serted, stigma terminal, dilated; ovules 1-2, pendulous. Oarpels ovoid, 

 loose in the cavities of the enlarged spongy torus ; pericarp bony, 

 smooth. Seed filling the carpel, testa spongy, albumen 0 ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, thick, enclosing the large folded plumule.— Distrib. Species 

 one Asiatic and Australian ; the other "W. Indian. 



1. N. SPEOIOSUM, Willd. Leaves 2 to 3 feet in diam., concave, glaucous. 

 Peduncles and petioles 3 to 6 feet long, smooth, or with small scattered 

 prickles. Floiuers 4 to 10 in. diam. ; petals elliptic, rose, rarely wliito^ 

 Fndtinn torus flat-topped 2 to 4 in. diam. Pipe carpels ovoid, about ■r^ 

 in long. Wight & Arn. Prodr. i. 16 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 647 ; Wight 111. 



i t 9; H. f. & T. PI. Ind. 247; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 2, p. 91. 



N. asiaticum. Rich, in Ann. Mus. xvii. 249, t. 9. Nelnmho Indioa, Poiv. 



Encycl. iv. 453. Nelnmho, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 59, t. 31, 32. 0. mysticus, 



Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 75. Nympluva Nehimho, Linn. 



In stagnant water thoroug-hout the Indo-Malayan region. Distrib. 



Persia, China, Japan and tropical Australia. 



Order VII. CAPPARIDEiE. 

 Herbs, shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves simple or palmate- 

 ly 3 to 9-f Jliolate ; stipules 2 or 0, sometimes spinescent. Liflorescence in- 

 definite ■ flowers solitary, racemed, corymbose or nmbelled, regular or 

 irro-ular, usually 2-sexual. Sepals 4, free or connate, valvate or imbri- 

 cate" rarely open in bud. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or 0), hypogynons or seated 

 on the disk, imbricate or open in bud. Stamens 4 or more, hypogynous 

 or perio-yuous, or at the base of or on a long or short gynophore. Disk 

 0, or tumid, or lining the calyx-tube. Ovary sessile or stalked, 1-celled ; 

 Style short or 0 ; stigma depressed or capitate ; ovules ludefiuito, on 2 to 4 

 parietal placentas, amphi- or campylo-tropous. Frtut capsular or berried. 

 Seeds angled or reuiform, exalbuminous ; embryo incurved.-Distrib. 

 Genera 23, species 300, chiefly tropical. 



1. Cleome, Linn. 

 Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3 to 9-foliolate. FZo«;.« solitary 

 or racemed, yellow, rose or purple. Sej^cZs 4, spreading. Petals 4, ve 

 cular or ascending. Stamens 6 to 20, sessile on the disk. Ovary sessile 

 or with a short gynophore; style short or 0; ovules many, on 2 parietal 

 placentas. Gapsrde oblong or linear, valves 2, ^--^^'S' ^^7„ '° 

 bearmg placentas, Seeds reniform. Distrib. Species about 80, chiefly 

 tropical. 



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