CAPPARIDACEJ. (CAPER FAMILY.) 21 
1. C. maritima, Scop, var. equalis. Smooth; stem much branched, 
prostrate; leaves oblong, irregularly toothed or pinnatifid, narrowed intc ;a petiole 
as long as the limb; flowering racemes short and corymb-like, fruiting ones 
elongated; petals wedge-obovate, emarginate; mature silicle linear, 8-ribbed, 
the upper joint ovate-lanceolate, slightly compressed, beak-pointed, one third 
longer than the cylindrical lower one ; cotyledons linear, 3-angled. (C. æqua- 
lis, L’ Her.) — Drifting sands along the coast. May - August. — Stems 19 - 29 
long. Flowers pale purple. 
Orver 13. CAPPARIDACEA. (Carer FaurLY.) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with acrid watery juice, alternate, simple or 
palmately-compound leaves, and regular hypogynous flowers. Stipules 
spiny or wanting. — Sepals 4, imbricated or valvate in the bud. Petals 
4, mostly clawed. Stamens 6 or numerous. Ovary 1-celled: ovules am- 
plütropous or campylotropous, attached to the two parietal placente. 
Fruit silique-like, and 2-valved or indehiscent. Seeds reniform, without 
albumen. Embryo curved. - 2 
sare E 
1, POLANISIA.. Stamens B tree ‘Torus short. Style filiform. 
2. CLEOME. St VR" TOt dirt" Bügma sentlo- ' 
& GYNANDROPSIS. ‘Stamens 6. Filaments partly united with the stipe of the ovary. 
* * Calyx 4-parted. — Shrubs. 
4. CAPPARIS. Stamens numerous, free. Leaves entire. 
1. POLANISIA, Raf. 
Petals clawed. Stamens 8-32: filaments free, unequal, filiform. Torus 
short, bearing a truncated or emarginate gland on the upper side. Ovary sessile 
or short-stipitate. Style filiform. Capsule silique-like, many-seeded. — Annual 
clammy herbs, with  palmately trifoliolate petioled leaves, and racemose flowers. 
ae A tenuifolia, Torr. & Gray. Stem slender, erect, branching ; leaflets 
filiform, longer than the petiole ; petals oval, entire, short-clawed, unequal ; sta- 
mens 12— 15; capsule linear, smooth, short-stipitate, pointed with the persistent 
style ; seeds minute, circular. — Georgia (Ze Conte) and South Florida (Blodgett). 
— Stem 19 -29 high. Flowers white. ; 
2. CLEOME, L. 
Petals long-clawed, nearly equal, entire. Stamens 6. Filaments flitom, : 
ioi pitel 1 - 3 often shorter, rarely all abbreviate -Torus short, emi 
