Cleome. tetradynamia siliquosa. 120 



The seeds are much used by the natives, chiefly the brah- 

 inin.s, ill their curries; ihey are sold iu all our bazars, at a 

 very trifling price. 



4. C. diffusa. Roxb. 



Dift'iise, annual, hispid. Leaves ternate. /^lowers axilla- 

 ry, solitary, regular, hexandrous. Silupies sessile. 



A small, spreading*, annual species, common on rich cul- 

 tivated lands, and such as have been lately in culture; itap- 

 j)ears and flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. 



Stem annual, diffuse, ramous, about a foot long, armed 

 with many small inoffensive prickles. Leaues alternate, short- 

 petioled, terminate. Leaflets wedge-formed, or oblong, glan- 

 dular, having the middle nerve and margins scabrous, about 

 one half or three quarters of an inch long, and one quarter 

 broad, Floivers axillary, solitary, peduncled, small, pale 

 yellow. Stamens six. Germ sessile. Style short, cylindric. 

 Stigma umbilicated. Siliqne tapering towards both ends. 

 Seeds scabrous. 



5. C monophylla. Willd. iii. p. 571. 



Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves simple, lanceolate, cordate, 

 villous. Flowers hexandrous. 



Tsjeru vela. Rhecd. Mai. ix. t. 34. 



Sinapistrum Zeylanicum, &c. Burm. Zeijl. t. 10. yi 2. 



A native of the Coromandel coast, &c. Is in flower during 

 the rainy and cool seasons. 



Root annual. Stem erect, ramous. Branches alternate, 

 expanding, round and villous. Leaves alternate, entire, soft, 

 with short pellucid hairs ; the inferior ones petioled, lanceo. 

 late-cordate ; the superior ones floral, sub-sessile, and of a pa- 

 rabolic form. Stipules none. Floicers pedicelled, small, of a 

 ])ale pink, solitary on the exterior axills, and on simple ter- 

 minal racemes. Bractes no other than the floral leaf above- 

 mentioned. Calyx of four equal, ensiform, erect, hairy, ca- 

 ducous leaflets. Petals four, arranged on the upper side, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, elevated on claws, nearly as long as 

 the lamina. Filaments six, ascending, about as long as the 



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