78 ix. cappakidace.e (oliver). [Cleome. 



stigma capitate or subcapitale. Seeds nearly smooth. — C. Vahliana, Fres. 

 in Mus. Senck. ii. 110. C. diver sifolia, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. PI. 

 Arab. C. parvi/lora, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. 65. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt ! Roth! Kordofan, Cienkowski ; Nubia, Schweinfurth! 



Grows also in N.W. India and Arabia. Very common at Aden. 



8. C. tenella, Linn./.; DC. Prod. i. 240. An erect, perfectly gla- 

 brous, glaucescent herb, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous slender forking branches. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, on very slender ascending petioles or the upper simple ; 

 leaflets linear, filiform, scarcely thicker than the petiole. Flowers small, on 

 hair-like pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the oval, clawed, purple-streaked petals. Sta- 

 mens 6. Fruit narrow-linear, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, sessile or subsessile, 

 striate. Style very short. Seeds globose-reniform, minutely rugulose-pitted. 

 — Cleome angnstifolia, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. (non Forsk.) 21. 



Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Perrottet, Hussenot ! 

 Nile Land. Senuar, Kotschy ! 

 Extends to India. 



9. C. paradoxa, Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 65. An erect, somewhat 

 shrubby plant of 2-3 ft., the branches simple or forking, leafy, glabrous or 

 with dark sessile glands above. Leaves 3-6-foliolate ; leaflets linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, glabrous, glaucescent. Racemes terminal. Flowers pedi- 

 cellate, rather large, yellow or rose, closely corymbose at first. Bracts linear 

 or obsolete. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, often glandular. Petals un- 

 equal. Stamens 6, 2 usually much longer. Fruits widely spreading or pen- 

 dulous, linear, tapering to each end, about 4 in. long, 2-3 lines broad; 

 gynophore \- f in. Persistent style short, tapering, many times shorter 

 than the glabrous striate valves. Seeds subglobose, shortly pilose. Coty- 

 ledons circulate. — C. venusta, Fenzl in Flora 1814, 312 (name only). ■*** 

 anther a grand, 'flora, Kl. in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 161 (Schweinfurth, f'- 

 yEthiop. 71, 305). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt ! Roth ! Kordofan, Kotschy ! 

 Common at Aden. 



10. C. ciliata, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 294. An erect, sparsely setu- 

 lose-pilose or subglabrous herb, simple or branched below, from a few inches 

 to 2 or 3 ft. and suffrutesceut. Leaves 3-foliolate or sometimes 5-foliolate, 

 rhomboid-elliptical to lanceolate, usually acute at each end, minutely or ob- 

 soletely ciliolate and very thinly pilose-setulose at first or glabrous, petiolate 

 or the upper sessile. Sepals narrowly linear-lanceolate. Stamens 6. Siliq" a 

 linear, 1-2J in., narrowed to each end, stipitate, glabrous or glandular-setu- 

 lose with longitudinal anastomosing nerves ; gynophore }^ in. Style 

 short, slender. Seeds transversely rugose. — C. auineensis. Hook. f. Fl. Nig** 

 218. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Cape Coast, Niger, T. Vogel and Barter- 

 Camaroous river, Mann ! Prince's Island, Mann. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! Burton ! various provinces of Angola, both in ar ? 

 and moist pastures, Dr. IVelicitsch .' 



11. C spinosa, Linn. ? DC. Prod. I 239. Shrubby, the extremity 



