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CLEOME^ speciosissima. 

 Shewy Cleome. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Capparide;e. 



CLEOME. — Supra, vol. 12. fol. 960. 



C. speciosissima ; herbacea inermis, foliis 5-7-foliolatis : foliolis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis pilosis, bracteis ovatis, petalis pedicellorum longitudine. 



C. speciosissima. Deppe in litteris. 



Planta annua, C. roseas facie, qua differt prrjecipue foliis pilosis nullis 



trifoliatis, et floribus majoribus, pedicellis abbreviatis. 



Raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society from 

 seeds sent by Dr. Deppe from Xalapa. It is a tender 

 annual, requiring exactly the same treatment as Cleome 

 rosea, to which it bears much general resemblance, but 

 from which it differs essentially in the larger size and 

 greater beauty of its flowers. 



Well adapted for planting among other border annuals 

 in the summer, when it will ripen its seeds if the season is 

 favourable ; for a greenhouse it is less suitable, its leaves 

 having little beauty ; but it is always advisable to have a 

 plant or two in reserve under glass to secure seeds, in case 

 those in the open air should fail. 



Flowers late in the summer. Our drawing was made 

 in October last ; but the plant had been raised only in 

 July, the seeds not having reached England till the end 

 of spring. 



J. L. 



* The derivation of this name is unknown. 



