576 CAPPARIDACEAE 
and Ga.—Spr.-fall.—Thereé is much variation in the size of the flower, and in the 
sepals. One pair of sepals may be ovate and the other lanceolate. Sometimes all 
are ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 
2. POLANISIA Raf. Herbs. Leaf-blades simple or 3-foliolate. Sepals 
4, spreadin ng. Petals 4, white or pink, somewhat unequal, long-elawed, the 
S 
ns : ovoid. 
sessile or ton S0: 8 vie slender. Capsule 
linear or linear-oblong—About 30 species, 
natives of temperate and tropical regions. 
1. P. E Raf. Plant 1-8 dm. tall: 
leaflets 1. 5-3.5 em. long; blades elipti or 
obovate: lower porem 3- ju pud sepals 
elliptic ‘to lanceolate, abou peo ng: 
petals 4-5 mm. long: ncs p m -cune- 
ate: Vaid linear- -elliptic, 3- 7 em. long.— 
(CLAMMY PIDER-ROS WORM- 
WEED. )— Fields, roadsides, "ig rivers dde S, 
ind ba ate T nS., Es Que; and Md.—Sum. P. trach 
sperma T. & G. with flowers about + Eo e size of those of P. graveolens d 
T stamens, has been a near "Dadeville, Ala. 
3. CLEOME L. Herbs. Leaf-blades 3-7 foliolate. Sepals 4, pod 
Petals 4, white or pink, nearly equal, End -clawed. Gland wanting. mens 
6, borne on the gynophore; anthers elliptic. Ovary long- oe nen al- 
most wanting. Capsule linear. [Gynandropsis DC.|—About 12 cud natives 
of tropieal regions.—Sum.-fall or all year S.—SPIDER FLOWER 
Bracts 3-foliolate: sepals oo petals 1-1.5 cm. long: stipe of the capsule 
shorter than the gynophor 1. C. gynandra. 
B aar sepals glabrous : petals 2.5-3.5 em. long: stipe 
apsule many times longer than the gynophore. 2. C. speciosa. 
1. C. gynandra L. Stem glandular- r and with scattered long hairs: 
leaflets 3-5; blades E oval, elli iptie, or ovate, the larger ones 2-8 cm. 
M 
long or less: seed 
sharply tubereulate. 
phylla | Sehrank.] — (SPID 
grounds, waste-places, and roadsides, Coastal 
Plain, Fla. to La. and Ga. Nat. of the Old 
World.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.) 
C. speciosa H. B. K. Stem glabrous or 
acd pubescent: leaflets 5—7; blades 
pond Li narrowly d the longer 
. long, often long-aeumi 
euis 
rous: eorolla 5—7 cm. in diameter, pink: 
eapsule-body 6—10 em. long, Te stipe half as long as the body or more: 
nearly or quite 3 mm. in diameter, abd tuberculate.—W aste-places p 
cult. grounds, Fla. Nat. "of Cont. Tro op. Am 
