76 ix. CAPPAKiDACEiE (oliver). [Cleome. 



* Capsule distinctly stipitate. 



Glandular-pilose. Leaflets 5 or 3, obovate. Capsule striate. 



Seeds pitted, glabrous 16. C.fohosa. 



Strigose. Leaflets 5 or 3, obovate. Stamens 10-14. Capsule 

 strigillose or glabrous; valves with about 3 nervures. Seeds 

 transversely mgulose \T. C. strvjosa. 



Glabrous. Leaflets 3, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or acu- 

 minate. Bracts miuute, subulate. Pedicels very short. Sepals 

 linear-subulate. Capsule-valves 3-nerved, glabrous . . . . 18. C. chilocalyx. 



Pubescent or puberulous. Leaflets 7-5, linear-lanceolate or linear, 

 rather obtuse. Bracts 5-3-1-foliolate. Sepals linear. Cap- 

 sule setulose-pubescent 19. C. hirta. 



Pubescent or strigillose. Leaflets 3-5, oblanceolate or oval acute. 



Bracts 1-3-foliolate. Capsule hairy or glabrate 20. C. Bororensus. 



1. C. monophylla, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 239. An erect, branching, 

 pubescent herb, usually from 6 in. to 2 ft. Leaves oblong- to linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute or rather obtuse, entire, base obtuse, rounded or slightly cordate, 

 usually 1-3 in. long, 2-10 lines broad ; petiole varying from 2 lines to 1 ». i 

 or more. Racemes bracteate ; bracts linear, lanceolate or ovate, sessile or 

 subsessile. Flowers pale rose or white and red, on slender ascending pedicels. 

 Sepals narrow-linear. Stamens 6. Capsule narrow-linear, 1-4 in. long, 

 striate, shortly pilose-pubescent, tipped with the short style ; gynopliore very 

 short or 0. Seeds transversely rugose. — C. cordata, Burch., DC. Prod. i. 

 239. C. subcordata, Steud. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrotlet ! Niger, Barter ! 

 North Central, E. Vogel ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others; Kordofan, Cienkowski ; 5-6° south Ian 

 Speke and Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, weed of cultivation, Br. Welwitsch ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Br. Kirk! 

 Also at the Cape. 



2. C. papillosa, Steud. Nom. Bot. ; Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 

 Suppl. i. 3. A low scabrous or hispid herb of 4-12 in., usually with several 

 erect or ascending slender stems more or less leafy below. Eadical leaves 

 ovate to orbicular, shortly hispid-scabrous, entire, i-1 in. diam., petiolate; 

 cauline leaves often cordate-based, shortly petiolate or sessile. Flowers 

 small, lax, on capillary ascending or patent pedicels. Bracts small or obso- 

 lete. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Stamens 6. Capsule narrow-linear, patent 

 or slightly decurved, sessile, glabrous or nearly so, f-l£ in- long. Style very 

 short. Seeds reniform, dark, minutely pitted-rugulose. — C. Ehrenbergiana, 

 Schweinfurth, Fl. iEthiop. 68. C. Ra'dula, Fenzl in Flora 1844, 312. 



Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Ehrenberg. 

 Extends eastward through Arabia to N.W. India.. 



*3. C. trinervia, Fresen. in Mm. Senck. i. 177. t. xi. Branches 1-2 

 ft., glamlular-setulose. Leaves lanceolate ovate-lanceolate or oval, rather 

 acute, more or less densely glandular, 3-nerved below, 1 in. long or less U> 

 our specimens, on petioles of \ in. or shorter. Racemes at length elongate, 

 Bracts oval or linear, shorter than the pedicels or obsolete. Sepals lanceolate 

 to ovate, 3-4 times shorter than the oval clawed petals. Stamens 6. Fruit 

 linear-oval, sessile or subsessile, lj-2£ in. long, about 3 lines broad, pendu- 



