226 FLORA OF JAMAICA Cleome 



Lacovia, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7913, 9849. West Indies, tropical and sub- 

 tropical America. 



Herb 3-5 ft. high. Leaflets lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 3-9 cm. 1. ; 

 petioles 2-11 cm. 1. Racemes 1-4 dm. 1. Flowers white or pale rose 

 (rarely purple), sometimes trimorpbic on the same plant, about 2 cm. 1. 

 (excl. stamens) ; pedicels 2-3 cm. 1. Petals, claw nearly as long as limb. 

 Stamens 6, crimson, generally long exserted. Ovanj much shorter than 

 its stalk, the gynophore, in the flower. Capsule linear-cylindrical, 5-9 cm. 1. 

 Seeds nearly 2 mm. in diam. 



Yar. horrida var. nov. pubescent-glandular, sometimes glabre- 

 scent ; deciduous prickles also at base of lower bracts, few or 

 many prickles on petioles and middle nerve of leaf ; leaflets 5 ; 

 bracts ellij^tical to lanceolate, base roundish, obtuse or acute, 

 shortly stalked ; capsule often shorter than the gynophore, and 

 much longer than the pedicel. C. horrida Mart, ex Schult. Syst. 

 vii. 32 (1829). C. spinosa form horrida EuTil. torn. cit. 253 

 (1865). 



Troy, 1500 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 8547. S. United States, Brazil, 

 Bolivia. 



2. C. Houstounii B. Br. (Houstoni) in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 

 iv. 131 (1812) ; glandular-pubescent; stipular prickles at base of 

 petiole and bracts, and prickles also on petiole ; leaflets 5-3 ; 

 bracts ovate or oblong, cordate, sessile ; style short but increasing 

 in length in the fruit ; stigma much dilated ; gynophore in fruit 

 very short, much shorter than the pedicel, which is half as long 

 as (or less than) the capsule. DC. torn. cit. 241 ; Griseb. op. cit. 

 16 ; Eiclil. torn. cit. 256. Sinapistrum indicum spinosum &c. 

 Eoust. Cat. MS. 203 [215] & in Martyn Hist. 45, t. 43 (1737). 



St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane Herb. iii. 108* ! Houstoun is stated by 

 De Candolle and Grisebach to have collected this species in Jamaica, but 

 his plants in Herb. Mus. Brit, are from Havana, and the coloured drawing 

 by himself in Martyn's Historia is of a specimen also from Cuba. 



Herb 3-5 ft. high. Leaflets lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 3-9 cm. 1. ; 

 petioles 2-9 cm. 1. Racemes 1-2*5 dm. 1. Floivers rose-coloured or 

 purplish, 1-1-5 cm. 1.; pedicels 1-5-2-5 cm. 1. in fl., to 3-5 cm. 1. in fr. 

 Petals, claw much shorter than limb. Stamens 6, red, not as long as the 

 petals. Ovary longer than the gynophore in the flower, and soon very 

 much longer. Capsule linear-cylindrical, 5-9 cm. 1. Seeds 1-5 mm. in 

 diam., muriculate on back. 



[C. eiliata Schum. & Thonn. in Dan. Vid. Selsk. Afli. iv. 68 

 (1829) ; sparsely pilose or subglabrous ; leaflets 3 (rarely 5), 

 minutely or obsoletely ciliolate ; capsule with, prominent nerves, 

 several times longer than the short gynophore, and much longer 

 than, to more than twice as long as, the pedicel. Oliver Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. 78. C. guineensis Hooli. f. in Hook. Niger Fl. 218 (1849). 



Spontaneous in Hope Grounds ; Hope Mines ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5638, 

 6551, 6639. Tropical Africa. 



Herb erect, or sometimes trailing, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves long-stalked 



