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•2. Cleome piingcns. Thorny bastard Mustard. 



Herbaceous prickly piibescenti-viscose, leaves 5-7- 

 foliate glabrous, floral leaves sessile cordate, silique 

 glabrous shorter than the thecaphorum. 



//. B. 4" Kimth, Nov. Sp. V. 85. — C. spinosa, Bot. Mag. t. 

 1G40.— C. pungens, Be Cand. Prod. I. i'39. 



HAB. Dry waste places. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



There is so little difFerenca between this and the preceding, 

 that they may be regarded as varieties of the same species. 



Sect. 2. SiUquaria. 

 Disk small. Thecaphorum short or none. 



3. Cleome procumbens. Divarf bastard Mustard. 



Herbaceous glabrous procumbent, leaves simple 

 lanceolato-linear, floral leaves generally shorter than 

 the pedicels, siliques sessile terete subtorulose. 



Sloane, I. t. 123 — Sinapis, Browne, 273. No. 2. — C. pro- 

 tuinbens, Jacq. Amer. 189. t. 120. — Swartz, Ohs. 25-3. 



HAB. Common in dry pastures. 



FTj. After the May and October rains. 



Herbaceous, 2-6 inches in length, procumbent, glabrous, 

 branched. Leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 glabrous, 7-8 lines in length. Flowers axillary, solitary, pe- 

 dicelled, small, yellow : pedicels shorter than the leaves. 

 Sepals lanceolate, acute, spreading. Petals oblong, shortly 

 clawed, spreading, twice the length of the sepals. Stamens 6, 

 equal, of nearly the length of the petals. Ovary oblong, com- 

 pressed, acuminate : style short : stigma obtuse. Silique 

 terete, subtoi-ulose : seeds many, subrotundo-reniform. 



4. * Cleome polygama. Polygamous bastard Mus- 

 tard. 



Herbaceous glabrous, leaves petiolate, the lower 

 ones simple, the rest 3-foliate, leaflets ovato-lanceolate 

 acuminate subserrulated, siliques subsessile terete gla- 

 brous.— Z>e Cand. 



Shane, I. 194. t. 124. f. \.~Browne, Jam. 27 2.— WiUd. Sp. 

 ill. 565.~H. B. et Kunth. Syn. III. 142. 



HAB. Dry situations. Old Harbour market place. 



FL. Towards the end of the year. 



Erect, smooth, sparingly branched. Leaves on long petioles. 

 Raceme long: the lower flowers fertile ; the upper ones barren. 

 Petals white. Stamens purple. Pod 3 inches long. 



