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7. CAKILE [Tourn.] Mill. Gard. Diet. Abr. ed. 4. 1754. 



Annual glabrous fleshy herbs, with purplish or white flowers. Siliques 

 elongated, sessile, flattened or ridged, indehiscent, 2-jointed, the joints 1-celled 

 and usually 1-seeded. Style none; cotyledons accumbent. [Old Arabic name.] 

 A genus of about 3 species, natives of sea and lake shores of Europe and North 

 America. Type species: Bunias Cakile L. 



1. Cakile lanceolata (Willd.) O. E. Schulz, in Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 504. 1903. 



Raphanus lanceolatus Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 562. 1801. 

 Caldle aequalis L'Her. DC. Syst. 2: 430. 1821. 



Erect or ascending, often much branched, 8 dm. high or less. Basal and 

 lower leaves broadly oblong, obtuse, 5-8 cm. long, coarsely crenate-dentate; 

 upper leaves smaller, narrowly obovate to oblong, crenate-dentate or entire ; 

 flowers pale purplish, 6-10 mm. broad; fruiting racemes often 3 dm. long; 

 fruiting pedicels stout, ascending, 4-6 mm. long; pod 1.5-2.5 cm. long, its 

 upper joint 1^-4 times as long as the lower. 



Maritime sands and white-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama southward through- 

 out the archipelago to Salt Cay (Grand Turk), Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Water 

 Cay : Bermuda ; southern United States : the West Indies and northern South 

 America. SOUTHERN SEA-ROCKET. GARDEXA. PORK BUSH. 



Family 3. CAPPARIDACEAE Lindl. 

 CAPCR FAMILY. 



Herbs or shrubs (rarely trees), with alternate or very rarely opposite 

 leaves, and regular or irregular, mostly perfect flowers. Sepals 48. 

 Petals 4 (rarely none). Keceptacle elongated or short. Stamens 4 , 

 not tetradynamous, inserted on the receptacle; anthers oblong. Style 

 generally short; ovules oo, on parietal placentae. Fruit a capsule, or 

 indehiscent, or irregularly rupturing. Seeds various ; endosperm none ; 

 embryo generally coiled. About 35 genera and 450 species, mostly of warm 

 regions. 



Herbs: fruit a longitudinally dehiscent capsule. 1. Cleome. 



Shrubs and trees ; fruit indehiscent or irregularly rupturing. 2. Capparis. 



1. CLEOME L. Sp. PI. 671. 1753. 



Herbs or low shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, or simple. Flowers 

 mostly racemose. Calyx 4-divided or of 4 sepals, often persistent. Petals 4, 

 cruciate, nearly equal, entire, more or less clawed. Receptacle short, slightly 

 prolonged above the petal-bases. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), inserted on the recep- 

 tacle. Ovary stalked, with a gland at its base. Capsule elongated, many- 

 seeded. [Derivation uncertain.] About 75 species, mainly natives of tropical 

 legions, especially American and African. Type species: Cleome gynandra L. 



1. Cleome gynandra L. Sp. PI. 671. 1753. 



Cleome pentaphylla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 938. 1763. 



PediceUaria pentaphylla Schrank; Roem. & Ust. Mag. Bot. 8: 11. 1790. 



Gynandropsis pentapliylla DC. Prod. 1: 238. 1824. 



Annual, bright green, clammy-pubescent. Stem 5-10 dm. tall, branching; 

 leaf -blades palmately 3-5-foliolate; petioles longer than the leaflets; leaflets 



