230 FLORA OF JAMAICA GynandrojJsis 



Passage Fort, Sloanc Herb. iii. 108 (2, 3) ! Broughton ! Distin ! Prior ; 

 March. West Indies and tropical and subtropical America. Native 

 probably in Africa and Asia. 



Herb erect, more or less glandular-pubescent, 1-3 ft. high. Leaflets 

 obovate, sometimes elliptical, acute or obtuse, entire or minutely denticu- 

 late, 2-5 cm. 1. FZou'crs white or purplish. Sepals Sbhout 5 cm.. \. Petals 

 not imbricate in bud. Capsule cylindrical 4*5-5 cm. 1.; gynophore 2-3 

 cm. 1. (the upper part about half as long as the lower); pedicel about 



2 cm. 1. Seeds about 1*2 mm. in diam., rugose-muriculate. 



2. G. speeiosa BC. Prodr. i. 238 (1824); lecaflets 7 (5); 



bracts simple, cordate; petals 2 "5-3 cm. 1. Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 



^b'2. Cleome speeiosa H.B. & K. Nov. Gen. v. 84, t. 436 (1821) ; 



Griseh. loc. cit. 



Arcadia, Mrs. Seicell ! Guadeloupe, ]\Iartinique, continental America 

 from Mexico to Ecuador. 



Leaflets narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 7-14 cm. 1. Sepals about 



3 mm. 1. Petals imbricate in bud. Capsule linear-cylindrical, about 

 8 cm. 1. ; gynophore 5-6 cm. 1. (the upper part about 7 times as long as 

 the lower) ; pedicel about 2*5 cm. 1. 



4. CAPPARIS L.-- 



Trees or shrubs, without prickles in American species. 

 Leaves simple, more or less leathery ; stipules, when present (as 

 in C. haducca and C. flexuosa), generally confined to young or 

 barren shoots. Flowers pedicellate, corymbose. Calyx 4-lobed 

 or -partite, or sepals 4, free ; the West Indian sjiecies have 4 

 glands at the base of the calyx, each opposite a sepal. Petals 4, 

 imbricate. Stamens many, but few (about 8) in G. ferruginea. 

 Ovary with a stalk (gynophore), 1-4-celled ; placentas generally 

 2. Fruit a subglobose, elongated or siliquiform berry, wdth 

 pulpy pericarp, indehiscent or rupturing irregularly or splitting 

 into 3 or 4 valves, but without a replum ; the gynophore often 

 lengthened. Seeds numerous or few, embedded in the pulp, 

 globose-kidney-shaped, without endosperm. Embryo convolute ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous, fleshy. 



Species 150, natives of warmer regions, wdth greatest develop- 

 ment in the number of species in Central and South America. 



Plant mostly covered with minute scales. 



Bud 4-angled with the edges of the valvate sepals 1. C cynophallopliora. 

 Bud with open sepals. 



Leaves narrowly oblong-elliptical 2. C. indica. 



Leaves long, linear-lanceolate 3. C. longifolia.^ 



Plant mostly covered with stellate hairs 4. C. ferruginea. 



Plant glabrous and without scales. 



Stamens not longer than the petals 5. C. haducca. 



Stamens much longer than the petals 6. C. flexuosa. 



* See Journal of Botany, Iii. 142 (1914), for notes on the nomenclature 

 of the Jamaican species. 



t Provisionally placed here, but flowers not seen ; easily recognised by 

 the very long narrow scaly leaves. 



