CAPPARIDACEAE. 



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2. Cleome viscosa L. VISCID SPIDER- 

 FLOWER. (Fig. 183.) Annual, erect, 

 branched, viscid-glandular, l-3 tall. 

 Leaves petioled, the blades palmately 3-5- 

 f oliolate ; leaflets obovate-oblong, '-3' long, 

 acute, or aeutish, thin ; flowers axillary, 

 6"-8" broad; petals bright yellow; stamens 

 about 20, equalling the petals; capsule 

 linear, about 3' long, rough-glandular, 

 striate-ribbed, sessile ; seeds echinate. 



Common in waste and cultivated grounds. 

 Naturalized from the Old World tropics. 

 Naturalized in the West Indies. Flowers in 

 spring and summer. [Polanisia r/.srn.s</ DC.] 



Cleome speciosa DC., CANDELABRA 

 PLANT, Mexican, a tall species with large 

 purple flowers, is grown in flower-gardens. 

 Lefroy erroneously refers to Cleome pun- 

 gens Willd. (C. spinosa L.) as a white 

 variety of this ; it is a separate species, 

 apparently not observed as yet in Bermuda, 

 but as a common weed in warm countries 

 it may be expected to be introduced at 

 any time. 



Steriphoma elliptica Spreng., recorded 

 by Jones in 1873, and mentioned by Lefroy 

 as received from Trinidad, where it is 



native, in 1874, and flowered with him, is a shrub with oblong leaves and 

 spatulate petals. 



Capparis Cynophallophora L., BLACK WILLOAV, "West Indian and Floridian, 

 is represented by a large tree at Par-la-Ville, Hamilton, flowering profusely in 

 summer; it has oblong entire, firm leaves 4' long or less, shining above, their 

 under surfaces and the inflorescence silvery-scaly, the petals white. [Capparis 

 tontlosa of H. B. Small; C. jamaicensis Jacq.] 



Family 5. RESEDACEAE S. F. Gray. 



MIGNONETTE FAMILY. 



Herbs, rarely woody, with alternate or fascicled leaves, gland-like 

 stipules and racemose or spicate, bracted flowers. Flowers unsymmetrical. 

 Calyx 4-7-partecl, inequilateral. Petals generally 4-7, hypogynous. Disk 

 fleshy, hypogynous, 1-sided. Stamens 3-40 ; filaments generally unequal. 

 Ovary 1, compound, of 3-6 carpels; styles or sessile stigmas 3-6; ovules 

 00 . Fruit capsular in all but 1 genus. Seeds reniform, without endo- 

 sperm ; cotyledons incumbent. Six genera and about 65 species, natives of 

 the Old World. 



Reseda odorata L., MIGNONETTE, Egyptian, a low annual occasionally seen 

 in flower-gardens, has wedge-shaped, entire or 3-lobed leaves and yellowish- 

 green fragrant flowers with deeply lobed petals. 



Reseda alba L., WHITE CUT-LEAVED MIGNONETTE, European, erect up to 3 

 high, with deeply pinnatifid leaves and long narrow racemes of small, white 

 flowers, is also grown in flower-gardens. 



