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CLroME CANDELABRUM. - CHANDELIER 
CLEOME. — 
She SS Sbsbbsisk aka 
Class and Order. 
'Terrapynamia Sriiqvosa (Hexanpria Monoeynia 
zw - Persoon). “% caw A 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Petala 4. Stam. 4—A0. Siliqua uni- 
locularis, bivalvis, polysperma. Semina exalbuminosa. 
Specific Character. 
Cieome Candelabrum ; hexandra, inermis, pubescens ; sta- 
minibus apice stipitis insertis, foliis quinatis : foliolis 
lato-ovatis acuminatis, bracteis ternatis sessilibus, sili- 
quis scabris stipite longioribus. 
a. z - 
Descr. Stem erect, rounded, pubescent, somewhat 
branched towards the top. Leaves alternate, petioled : lea/- 
lets five, broad-ovate, acuminate, ciliate, hairy underneath, 
rough above, on very short thick pedicels. Bractes, or floral 
leaves, small, three-leaved. Peduncles spreading horizon- 
tally, hairy. Calyx, four-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate. Pe- 
tals 4, spathula-shaped, white, with a faint blush-coloured 
tinge, sessile, erect on claws longer than the calyx and 
equalling the limb. From the ceutre of the calyx is ex- 
tended horizontally a stipes or pedicel, which is longer 
than the peduncle, at the apex of which are inserted the 
six stamens and the oval germen. Capsule or siliqua an 
inch and half long, cylindrical, very rough, crowned with 
the flattened globular stigma. Seeds many, rough. 
The species referred to the genus Cizome are very nu- 
merous, but we cannot discover among those recorded by 
De Canpo tz, in his Systema Vegetabilium, any one that 
corresponds well with our plant, and have, therefore, been 
constrained 
