128 TKTRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Cleome. 



thers linear, recurved. Germ sessile, cylindric. Style, scarce- 

 ly any. Stigma um])ilicated. Sllique long, slender. Seeds 

 scabrous. 



The seeds dried and powdered, are used in curries by the 

 natives. 



3. C. viscosa. Willd. iii. 566. 



Annual, erect, hairy, glutinous. Leaves digitate; the floral 

 ones ternate and sessile ; floiuers polyandrous. Petals uni- 

 lateral. 



Aria veela. Rheed. JMal. ix. t. 23. 



Sinapistriin Zeylanicum, Burm. Zeijl. p. 2. 15. t. 22, al- 

 though a bad figure, appears to be intended for this plant. 



BeiKj. Hoor hooria. 



Teling, Kuka-wonihita. 



Annual, a native of cultivated lands. It is more upright, 

 and less ramous than the preceding- species, and from one to 

 three feet high. 



Root descending, almost simple. Stem, in old plants, 

 smooth ; the young stems, and tender branches of old ones 

 are hairy and glutinous. Leaves alternate, petioled, digitate. 

 Leaflets as in C. pentaphylla, only a little more waved round 

 the maroin. Flowers, leaves, or bractes ternate, and much 

 smaller than the others, one-flowered. Racemes, if 1 call all 

 those parts that are covered with the floral leaves, little 

 else remains. Flowers solitary, peduncled, erect, yellow, ap- 

 pearing in succession, always at the extremity of the raceme 

 only. Calyx spreading. Corol as in the family. JVectary no 

 other than a large receptacle Avhich receives the calyx, pe- 

 tals, stamens, and pistil. Filaments about twenty, ascending, 

 shorter than the petals. Anthers after bursting their apices 

 are revolute. Germ sessile. Style short. Stlyma oblong, 

 navelled, perforated. Siliqiie erect, round, striated, hairy. 

 Seeds brown, rough, round, reniform. 



This species has a considerable degree of pungency in the 

 taste, but it is not durable on the tongue. 



