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X. CAPPARIDACE^. 
[ Cleome. 
sessile. Flowers yellow in terminal corymbs, long-pedicellate. 
Petals ‘5 in. long. Stamens 12 to 20. Capsule glandular pubescent 
narrowed to the tip, 2 to 3*5 in. long, erect. Seeds small reniform. 
Hab. Common weed carried about by cattle, the plants often 
springing up from their dung. Whole peninsula from Singapore 
to Lankawi and Kelantan. Distrib. Whole world. Native name: 
Kutepeng, 
(2) Cl. aculeata Linn. Syst. ed. 13 iii. 232. Cl. Hullettii 
King, l.c. 391; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 7, pi. 133A. 
Herb slightly shrubby about 1 ft. tall, branched prickly puber- 
ulous. Leaves below trifoliolate petiolate, leaflets obovate, upper 
ones simple sessile, ovate pubescent, *5 to *75 in. long. Flowers 
small solitary axillary, -5 in. across, on slender pedicels, greenish 
white. Stamens 6. Capsule terete green 1-5 in. long. Seeds 
large muricate. Hab. Singapore. A weed in the town and the 
Botanic Gardens and fields near Tanglin. Distrib. Native of South 
America, introduced through Java, rather a small weak form. 
2 . GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 
An annual herb, glabrous or glandular pubescent. Leaves 
5- foliolate. Flowers racemed. Sepals 4. Petals 4, long-clawed. 
Stamens 6, filaments adnate below to the gynophore spreading 
above. Ovary stalked; ovules many. Capsule elongate erect; 
valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seed reni¬ 
form black. Species 10, all tropics. 
(1) G. pentaphylla DC. Prodr. i. 238; Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 171 ; 
King, l.c. 392. 
About 1 ft. tall. Leaves quinate long-petioled, leaflets sessile 
obovate or cuneate, 1 to 1*5 in. long. Flowers white with purple 
stamens, -35 to -8 in. long. Capsules cylindric pointed 2 to 4 in. 
long. Hab. Waste ground common from Singapore to Kedah. 
Distrib. Tropics generally. Native names : Maman putih; Maman 
antu. Use: As a pot-herb, planted among padi in Tringganu as 
a vegetable. 
3 . ROYDSIA, Roxb. 
Large woody climbers, unarmed. Branches spotted white. 
Leaves simple. Flowers racemed or panicled, yellow. Calyx 
6- lobed, segments biseriate. Petals 0. Stamens indefinite inserted 
above the base of the short gynophore. Ovary 3-celled. Styles 3. 
Ovules many. Fruit fleshy, i-celled, 3-valved, i-seeded. Species 
10, India, Indo-China. 
Leaves obovate, cuspidate . . . . . (1) R. parviflora 
Leaves oblong, elliptic.(2) R. Scortechinii 
(1) R. parviflora Griff. Notulcv iv. 578 ; Ic. PI. As. t. 607, 
/. i.; Hook. fd. F.B.I. i. 409; King, l.c. 396. 
Woody climber 4 to 8 ft. long. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate 
