CAPPARIDACEAE 575 
edentula (Bigel.) Hook. Plant erect or decumbent: leaves 2—16 cm. long; 
blades D to elliptic-lanceolate or rarely ovate, coarsely toothed or lobed: 
sepals becoming 3-3.5 mm. long: petals 4.5—6.5 mm. long: eee e long, the 
upper ovoid or ellipsoid-ovoid. —Beach sands, Fla. to La 
ri Small. Similar to C. edentula in habit: leaves 3-11 cm. long; 
blades tle to apices. crenate or incised-crenate: sepals becoming 
tals 4-5 mm. long: pod 2-2.5 em. long, the upper joint 
spei conie Ri ire beaches, Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. and S. C. 
anii Millsp. Plant spreading or prostrate: leaves 2—10 em. long; 
blade Kx DES to ge bap edi to ud toothed: sepals. becoming 
3.5—4 mm. long: petals mm. long: pod 1.5-2 em. long, the up er joint 
fusiform-lanceolate eee -SAP. pitting sand, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. 
6. C. Deae ips e Sehulz. Plant spreading or proeumbent: 
SA 3—9 c ; blades s e to broadly linear or lanceolate, 3-8 
long, dicet Or r dentate, or the lower d nsu sepals becoming 3. 5-4 m 
long: ‘petals 4-7 mm. long: pod 1.7-2 em. long, the upper joint conic or ovoid- 
conic.—Coastal id: dunes and shores, S pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I. 
C. A., S. " 
C. Cakile (L. Kar "1 Plant spreading: leaves 4—11 em. long; blades 
NE zd segments linear: sepals becoming 4—11 mm. long: petals 6—8 
mm. long: pod about 2 em. song, the upper joint mitre like —-About seaports, 
Fla. to Ala., and N. J. Nat. of Eu. 
Famity 4. CAPPARIDACEAE—Caprrr FAMILY 
erbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite. 
Flowers perfect, in racemes or cymes, or solitary. Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals. 
Corolla of 4 or 5, often unequal, petals. Androecium of 4-6 stamens or 
more. Gynoeeium of 2 united carpels. Fruit capsular, baccate. Seeds 
eonduplieate.—A bout 35 genera and 450 species, widely distributed. 
‘Herbs or herbaceous plants: fruit a 2-valved capsule. 
Receptacle neither elevated nor DE LM or without an appendage. 
ppendage present: filaments distin 
Petals very un R arely clawed:* capsule with 
deciduous valves 1. ALDENELLA. 
cs: noe equal, long-clawed : : capsule ean 
r the 2. POLANISIA. 
Appe nda aes sands. : filaments united below. 3. CLEOME. 
Receptacle pide or elongate. 4. NEOCLEOME. 
Shrubs or tree fruit baecate, or a pulpy capsule, sometimes 
DDCHIBE ceca rly. 5. CAPPARIS. 
1. ALDENELLA Greene. Herbs. Leaf-blades 3-foliolate, except some 
of the upper ones, the leaflets very narrow. Sepals 4, reflexed. Petals 4, 
unequal, the posterior pair before a solid 
e 
slender. Capsule narrowly linear. One species. 
1. A. tenuifolia (T. & G.) Gre reene. Stem 
2-8 dm. tall: leaflets 1—4 em. 2 long; blades 
ar filif 
2. m the 
ones 6-8 mm Iga ng; blades oval or ovate, 
G.]— — Ser ub, 
and sand hills, Coastal Plain, Fla. to 
