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CLEOME SPINOSA. PRICKLY CLEOME. 
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Clafs and Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA, 
Generic Charaéier. | 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Petala 4. Stam. 4—40. Siliqua unilocularis, 
bivalvis, polyfperma. Sem. exalbuminofa. 2 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CLEOME /pinofa; aculeata hexandra: ftaminibus juxta_bafin 
ftipitis germine aliquoties longioris infertis, foliis 7—5- 
natifque acuminatis, bra€teis racemi fimplicibus cordatis, 
Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 131. 
CLEOME /pinoja. Willd, Sp. Pl. 3. p. 568. (exclufo fynonymo 
Milleri.) Sp. Pl. 939. Jacq. Amer. 190. Swartz Obf. 252. 
CLEOME pungens ; floribus hexandris, foliis quinatis vifcofis, 
caule fpinofo. Willd. Hort. Berol. 1. t. 18. 
CLEOME Erucago. Mill. Did. 
CLEOME affurgens ramofum et fpinofum heptaphyllum, fpica 
multiplici foliata. Brown Fam. 273. 
TARENAYA Marcgr. Bra/fil. 33. t. 34. 
This is undoubtedly the fame plant that is defcribed and 
figured by WiiipENow, under the name of CLeome pungens, 
in his Hortus Berolinenfis; but we fee no reafon to fuppofe it 
to be diftin&t from Cieome /pinofa of Linnaus. The author 
himfelf obferves that they are very fimilar, but that this differs 
in being more lofty and in having conftantly five, never feven, 
leaflets, and in being clammy. But the latter circumftance is 
particularly mentioned by Jacgurny in his defcription of 
Spinofa; and Mr, ANpvERSON affures us, that the leaves of our 
plant, when young and vigorous, had frequently feven leaflets. 
As to the height there is no remarkable di ce in his 
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