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THALAMI FLORAS. 
2. (?) Raphanus lanceolatus. West India Radish. 
Pods bilocular ventricose smooth, beak subtetrago- 
nal, leaves lanceolate, those of the stem subdentate at 
the apex. 
Willd. III. 562 .— Be Cand. Syst. II. 669. 
HAB. Plantain-Garden-River bay. 
FL. February — May. 
Herbaceous, a foot or more in height, erect : branches smooth, 
angulose, striated : leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate, round- 
ed at the apex ; those of the stem subdentate, of the branches 
entire ; attenuated at the base, nerveless. Raceme terminal. 
Pedicels short, terete. Calyx 4-fid; divisions blunt. Petals 
4, roundish, clawed. Stamens 6 ; anthers greenish-yellow. 
Style thickened towards the ovary : stigma truncated with the 
edge reflected. Silique upwards of an inch in length, bilocular, 
contracted between the seeds, tetragonal and beaked towards 
the extremity. 
ORDER XII. CAPPARIDEAE. 
Calycine sepals 4, either distinct, equal, or unequal ; 
or cohering in a tube with the limb variable. Petals 
4, cruciate, usually unguiculate and unequal. Sta- 
mens generally perigynous, very seldom tetradyna- 
mous, most frequently some high multiple of a qua- 
ternary number, definite, or indefinite. Disk hemi- 
spherical or elongated, generally glanduliferous. Ovary 
stalked : style none or filiform. Fruit either pod- 
shaped and dehiscent, or berried, 1-celled, very rarely 
1 -seeded, most frequently with 2 polyspermous pla- 
centas. Seeds generally reniform, exalbuminous : em- 
bryo incurved : cotyledons leafy, flattish. 
Herbaceous plants, shrubs, arid even trees, without true sti- 
pules, but sometimes with spines in their place : leaves alter- 
nate, simple or palmate. — The Cappakide/e resemble the pre- 
ceding Order, in respect to the properties possessed by many of 
the species. The Capers are stimulant, antiscorbutic, and 
aperient; the bark of some of them is diuretic; and several 
species of Cleome have the pungent taste of mustard. We 
