Nasturtium .] ix. crucifers. 119 
elongate terete. Seeds in 2 rows. Species 20 or more, whole 
world, chiefly temperate regions. 
(1) N. indicum DC. Syst . Veg. ii. 199; Hook, fil F.B.I. i. 134. 
A weed 4 to 8 in. tall glabrous. Leaves runcinate or oblong 
crenulate simple, decurrent on the petiole, 3 in. long, 1 in. wide; 
petioles 1 in. long winged. Racemes axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 
in. long. Flowers yellow, ‘2 in. long. Pods linear spreading 1 in. 
long, *i in. through. Seeds very numerous. Hab. Occasional 
weed in waste ground. Singapore, Gardens; Bukit Timah road; 
Chan Cliu Kang. Penang, Convalescent Bungalow. Distrib. 
Tropical Asia. 
Order X. CAPPARIDACE^E. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple 
or palmately 3- to 9-foliolate. Stipules 2 or o, sometimes spiny. 
Flowers solitary, racemed or umbelled, regular or irregular. Sepals 
4, free or connate, valvate or imbricate. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or o), 
hypogynous or seated on the disc. Stamens 4 to indefinite, hypo- 
gynous or perigynous or at the base of or on a long or short gyno¬ 
phore. Ovary sessile or stalked (on a gynophore) i-celled; style 
short or o; ovules indefinite on 2 to 4 parietal placentas. Fruit 
a capsule or berry. Seeds angled or reniform exalbuminous. 
Tropical or sub-tropical countries. 
Herbs; stamens 6 to 20 sessile on disc . . . 1. Cleome 
Herbs; stamens 6 adnate to gynophore below, free 
above.2. Gynandropsis 
Trees or shrubs; stamens indefinite. 
Climber, petalous ...... 3 * Roydsia 
Shrubby, petalous. 
Petals sessile; stamens inserted on the torus . 4. Capparis 
Petals clawed’; stamens adnate to the gynophore 5. Cratawa 
1 . CLEOME, L. 
Herbs with 3- to 9-foliolate leaves. Flowers racemed (or solitary) 
yellow, white (or pink). Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4. Stamens 
6 to 20. Ovary sessile or with a gynophore; ovules many on 2 
parietal placentas. Capsules oblong or linear, valves 2, separating 
from the seed-bearing placentas. Seed reniform. Species about 
80, Cosmopolitan. 
Erect, unarmed herb; flowers yellow, viscid . . (x) C. viscosa 
Slender branched prickly herb ; flowers small white . (2) C. aculeata 
(1) Cl. viscosa Linn. Sp. PI. 672; Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 170; 
King, Journ. As Soc. Beng. Iviii. (2), 392. Polanisia icosandra 
W. and A. Prod. 22; Wight. Ic. t. 2. 
An erect viscid herb. Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate, leaflets obovate 
or ovate, lower ones long petioled, upper ones sometimes sub- 
