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with a clubbed appendage. Ovaries many, 1-collod, sunk in tho flat 
top of an obconic fleshy torus, attachment lateral; stylo very short, ex- 
sertcd, stigma terminal, dilated ; ovules t-2, pendulous. Carpels ovoid, 
loose in tho cavities of tho enlarged spongy torus ; pericarp bony, 
smooth. Seed filling tho carpel, testa spongy, albumen 0; cotyledons 
fleshy, thick, enclosing tho largo folded plumule. — Distrib. Species 2, 
one Asiatic and Australian ; the other W. Indian. 
L« N. spectosom, Willd. Leaves 2 to 3 feet in diam., concave, glaucous. 
Peduncles and petioles 3 to 6 feet long, smooth, or with small scattered 
prickles. Flowers 4 to 10 in. diam.; petals elliptic, rose, rarely white. 
Fruiting torus Hat-topped - to ■!■ in. diam. Ripe carpels ovoid, about "5 
in. long. Wight & Am. Prodr. i. 16 ; Roxb. PI. Ind. TL 647 ; Wight 111, 
i. t. 9 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 247 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, i. Pfc. 2, p. 91. 
JV. asiaticum, Rich, in Ann. Mus. xvii. 249, t. 9. Nelumbo Indica t Poir. 
Encycl. iv. 453. Nelumbo, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 59, t. 31, 32. G. mysficus, 
Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 75. Nympliaia Nelumbo, Linn. 
In stagnant water thoroughout the Indo-Malayan region. Distrib. 
Persia, China, Japan and tropical Australia. 
Order VII. CAPPARIDEzE. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, erector climbing. Leaves sitnplo or palmafce- 
ly 3 to 9-foliolate ; stipules 2 or 0, sometimes spinescent. Inflorescence in- 
definite ; flowers solitary, racemed, corymbose or umbolled, regular or 
irregular, usually 2-sexnal. Sepals 4, free or connate, valvate or imbri- 
cate, rarely open in bnd. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or 0), hypogyuous or seated 
on the disk, imbricate or open in bud. Stamens 4s or more, hypogynons 
or perigynous, or at the base of or on a long or short gynophore. Bisk 
0, or tumid, or lining the calyx-tube. Ovary sessile or stalked, 1-colled ; 
style short or 0 ; stigma depressed or capitate ; ovules indefinite, on 2 to 4 
pariefal placentas, aniphi- or campyla-tropous. Fruit capsular or berried. 
Seeds angled or rcniform, exalbnminons ; embryo incurved. — Distrib. JL^^/^J, 
Genera 23, species 300, chiefly tropical. S 
1. Cleome, Linn. 
Herbs. Leaves simple ordigitately 3 to 9-foliolate. Flowertt solitary 
or racemed, yellow, rose or purple. Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4, re- 
gular or ascending. Stamens 6 to 20, sessile on the disk. Ovary sessile 
or with a Bhort gynophore ; style short or 0 ; ovules many, on 2 parietal 
placentas. Capsule oblong or linear, valves 2, separating from the seed- 
bearing placentas. Seeds reniform. Distrib. Species about 80, chiefly 
tropical. 
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