Cleome 



CAPPARIDACE^ 



225 



1. C. spinosa Jacq. Enum. PL Carih. 26 (1760) ; pubescent, 

 often glandular ; stipular prickles two at base of petiole, deciduous 

 prickles sometimes on petiole ; leaflets 7 or 5 (or 3 in the highest 

 and lowest) ; bracts broadly ovate to roundish, subcordate, sessile 

 or subsessiie ; stigma sessile even in the fruit, scarcely dilated ; 

 capsule longer than (sometimes twice as long as) the gynophore, 

 which is generally longer than (sometimes twice as long as) the 

 pediceK^/('^. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 190; L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 939; BoL 

 May. t. 1640; EicliL in FL Bras. xiii. yt. 1, 252 (forms pungens 



Fig. QZ. Cleome spinosa Jacq. 



A, Portion of flowering l)ranch x h 



B, Flower cut lengthwise, slightly 



enlarged. 



C, Seed x 5. 



D, Seed cut lengthwise x 5 ; c, coty- 



ledons ; /, radicle. (After Baillon.) 



and spinosa); Sprague in Garcl. Chron. 1909, j^L 1, 114 ; Urb. 

 Symh. Ant. iv. 251. C. heptaphylla L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 937 (1763) 

 (so far as concerns reference to MilL Did.) ; Sw. Ohs. Bot. 252. 

 C. Erucago MilL Diet. ed. 8 (1768) (specimen from Houstoun in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit.). C. pungens Willd. Enum. Hort. BeroL (JS9- 

 (1809) A: Hort. BeroL 18, /. 18; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 15. 

 Sinapistrum ^gyptium heptaphyllum kc. SJoane Cat. 80 tV: Hist, 

 i. 194. C. assurgens ifcc. Broicnv Hixt. Jam. 273. (Fig. 93.) 

 Specimen from Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



St. Jago de la Vega, Sloanc ; Houstoun \ Kingston, Brouglitonl 

 St. Mary, Purdicl Priori King's House Grounds, J. P. 13-19, yiorrisl 

 Annotto Bay, Thompson 1 Kingston ; Port Antonio ; Lucea ; Hitchcock ; 



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