Cleome. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA, . 7 
the size very various, Petioles channelled, from three to four 
inches long, frequently armed with small, inoffensive prickles, 
Racemes terminal, long, corymbiform, particularly while 
young. Bractes short-petioled, ternate, numerous, surround- 
ing at regular distances every part of the raceme, those on the 
lower part sterile, above one-flowered ; /eaflets of the bractes 
hairy, like those of the leaves, but much smaller, Flowers 
small, white, long-pedicelled, spreading. Calya; leaflets 
lanceolate, hairy and glutinous, Petals erect, atlixed be- 
tween the leaflets of the calyx by five long claws, Nectary 
no other than a swelling at the insertions of the petals, Sta- 
mens six, ascending, inserted into the pedicel a little above the 
middle. Pistil, pedicel long, ascending, filiform, Germ line- 
ar. Stigma sessile, large, glandular, navelled, perforated, 
Silique long, slender, a little scabrous, diverging. Seeds nu- 
merous, kidney-formed, black, scabrous, 
- The taste of the plant is simply herbaceous; its leaves are 
eaten as an esculent vegetable by the natives in their curries, 
2. C. chelidonit. Willd, iii. 567. 
Annual. Leaves digitate. Calya and corol regular, polyan- 
drous, with the top of the filaments, laxates glia aeagile, 
Teling. Kax, bitter, Woominta, ; 
One of the most common, annual plants all over mee Gir. 
cars, it delights in rice lands, and appears in the greatest plen- _ 
ty immediately after the first rains, during which time the 
fields are entirely covered with this gaudy elegant plant. 
_ Stem annual, straight, ramous, round ; from one to three 
fost high. Leaves alternate, petioled, digitate. Leaflets 
from fis to nine, wedged, lanceolate, waved, scabrous. Pe- 
tioles longer than the leaflets, Racemes terminal, Flowers 
long-pedicelled, large, rose-coloured, remote, Bractes sin- 
gle, those of the lower flowers, leaf-like, as the raceme leng- 
thens, becoming more simple. Calyx four-leaved ; corol four~ 
petioled, nearly orbicular, concave, pein na Filaments 
numerous (about one hundred) with enlarged apices. 4 
