32 . VIOLACEJE. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 
1. C. pungens, Willd. Clammy-pubescent; leaves 5- 7-foliate, long 
petioled ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, serrulate ; lower bracts trifoliolate, the upper - 
ones simple, cordate-ovate ; stipules spiny ; capsule smooth, shorter than the elon- | 
gated stipe ; seeds rugose. — Waste places, Florida and westward. May- 1 
August. Introduced. @ — Stem 2? — 4? high. Petioles more or less spiny. - 
Flowers showy, purple, changing to white. 
3. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 
Petals clawed, imbricated or open in the bud. Stamens 6; the filaments ad 
nate to the lower half of the elongated stipe of the ovary. Stigma sessile. 
Capsule silique-like, Beppe n with panna 3- 5-foliolate leaves, | 
and racemose bracted flowers. 
1. G. pentaphylla, DC. Clammy-pubescent ; leaves 5-foliate, the lower | 
ones and bracts 3-foliolate ; leaflets oblong-obovate, nearly entire; flowers white, - 
open in the bud; capsules hispid; seeds warty. — Waste places, Florida to - 
North Carolina. Naturalized. May -.August. (1) — Stem 29-39 high. 
A. OCAPPATIBE, I Carcass, 
Sepals partly united, imbricated or valvate in the bud, often glandular at the 
base. Petals imbricated in the bud. Stamens numerous. Torus small. Ovary 
long-stipitate. Stigma sessile. Fruit fleshy, globose or silique-like, many- l 
seeded, — Shrubs or trees, with simple entire coriaceous leaves, spiny or adnate 
stipules, and mostly showy flowers. 
1. C. Jamaicensis, Jacq. Leaves oblong, emarginate, smooth above, 
the lower surface, like the flowers and flattened branches, dotted and covered 
with minute scales; flowers terminal, by pairs, on short 4-angled peduncles; 
sepals ovate, valvate in the bud, scarcely shorter than the oval white petals; 
filaments 20 — 24, long, villous at the base; capsule long (6'—8^), cylindrical, 3 
. torulose, downy, long-stipitate. (Coliesdtadron anceps, Shutil.) — South Flor- —— 
ida. — Shrub 8°- 10° high. 
2. C. eynophallophora, L. Leaves oblong, obtuse, reticulate-veined, — | 
glabrous like the flowers and branches ; peduncles Piera few-flowered ; se- 3 
_ pals rounded, imbricated in the bud, ph shorter than the obovate white petals; — 
filaments very long (2/), smooth ; capsule (6/—8' long) smooth, torulose, short- 
vmi pulpy within. — South Florida. — Shrub 69 -80 high. E 
Oner 14. VIOLACER, (VIOLET Famtry.) 
‘Herbs ee shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, involute in the bud. Stip- 
ules persistent. Flowers irregular, axillary, on bracted peduncles, nod- — 
ding. Sepals 5, persistent, imbrieated in the bud. Petals 5, hypogynous | 1 
. obliquely convolute in the bud. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, 
. eonnivent. Anthers adnate, introrse. Style single. Capsule 1-celled, — 
~- leulicidally 3-valved, many-seeded : valves each- earing a n 
mor e the middle. EN. me à 
