TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. 73 
467. CLEOME. LZ. 
_ Nectariferous glands 3, one under each of the 
3 upper calix leaves, the lower one without a 
gland. Calix 4-leaved, small and deciduous. 
Petals 4, all ascending to one side. Capsule si- 
liquose, stipitate, 1-celled, 2-valved. 
Principally annual plants, disagreeably scented, and 
- somewhat actively deletereous; leaves producing 2 glands 
* or 2 spines at the base, simple, ternate, or digitate; flow- 
ers axillary, or in terminal racemes, pedicells bracteate. 
Stamina 4, 6, 12, 20, or more. 
Species. 1.C. pentaphylla.—Flowers white, extremely 
singular. Calix small, green, and distinctly 5-leaved. 
Petals roundish, upon capillary claws 3 times their length. 
Stamina 6, very iong, originating about the middle of the 
styloid pedicell which supports the fruit; anthers. linear 
and never curved.—In confirmation, in some measure, of > 
the sagacious suspicions of Linnzus, I have now before 
me a somewhat viscidly pubescent specimen, in which the 
peduncles produce now and then a distinct prickle, thus 
proving the near affinity of this species to C. heptaphylla 
and C. triphylla. 2. dedecandra. Common on the sandy 
shores of lake Erie, near Buffaloe creek, also along the 
margins of the Missisippi and the Missouri. Flowers 
white. Pods large and sessile. The whole plant more 
or less viscid and fetid. 3. * cuneifolia. Muhl. Catal. 
Every where smooth; leaves simple, cuneate, retuse, flow- 
ers racemose, hexandrous. v. s. In Herb. Baldwyn and 
Muhlenberg. Oss. Annual. Petals white, with long and 
capillary claws. Silique stipitate. Indigenous to Geor- 
wta. Calix 1l-leaved, deciduous, margin 
Glands none. Petals equal, subsessile. Sta- 
min nadelphous, equal; anthers revolute. . Silique 
ablor pitate, I-celled, 2-valved, terminated: by a small 
persistent style. 
Annual, and smooth, leaves ternate, flowers in terminal 
racemes, bracteolate, peduncle surrounded by the sece- _ 
ding calix. = 
4. serrulata. (Cleome.serrulata. Pu.) Leaves ternate, 
glaucous; secondary leaves lanceola‘e, subulately acumi- 
nate, obsoletely subserrulate, petals ovate. Has. Abun- 
dant on the alluvial and sandy margin of the Missouri for 
more than a thousand miles continuance. Oss. Stem 3 
VoL. It. GQ F 
