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TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA, 
or 4 feet high, much branched. Leaves all ternate, very 
smooth and glaucous above, scarcely pubescent beneath, 
thickish. Stem and calix entirely free from viscid pubes- 
cence. Calix small, and cupulate, membranaceous, scpa- 
rating atthe base it then becomes deciduous, subsiding 
down the pedunclewpon which it remains inseparable; bor- 
der crenate, 4-toothed, dentures subulate, alternati ng with 
the petals. Nothing like glands are perceptible, and the 
corolla appears regular. Petals 4, ovate, subsessile and 
spreading, of a bright violaceous purple, 2 or 3 lines long, 
3 times the length of the calix. Stamina 6, equal and ca- 
pillary, spreading, monadejphous atthe base, arising from 
a second torus distinct from that of the-calix, and at the 
base of the stipe which supports the silique; anthers ob- 
long small and recurved, opening dicoidly on the outer 
_ Surface. Stipe at length about an inch long, supporting 
an oblong, and somewhat ovate, smooth silique, terminated 
by a short style and stigma. Receptacle without dissepi- 
ment, marginal, on either side seminiferous. Embryon in- 
curved. ‘The whole plant when bruised emits almost the 
same foetid odor as C. dodecandra. ¥f the flower affords any 
Seneric character Atalanta isa genus, the habit is howeyer 
altogether that of Cleome; but is every plant to be consi- 
dered a Cleome which produces digitate leaves, and pedi- 
Cellate siliques? What affinity but this connects together 
C. pentaphylla and C. dodecandra; in this last, moreover, 
the silique is sessile, and the flower, which is solitary and 
axillary, furnished with only a single gland, as in C. uni- 
glandulosa; of New Spain, which is probably the same 
"A tropical genus, containing about 26 species, indige- 
- nous to India, meridional America, Arabia, and Africa; it 
is a singular fact that Nos. 1 and 2 talogue are 
ually indigenous to India, and 1 
feabt in the most ardent of climates, C; 
like many other annuals, has now exte: limits into 
Pennsylvania, and to the 48th degree of North latitude on 
the banks of the Missouri. From their active qualities, 
they seem to claim the attention of physicians. Sen in- 
et sea pepbabts very delete: eous. O' C. gigantea, prod 
on ss ced in t fatal climate of Guinea, Linnzus remarks, tat 
its taste is. extremely burning, and its odor as remarkably 
