32 VI0LACEJ5. (violet 1AMII.Y.) 



l. C. pungens, Willd. Clammy-pubescent; leaves 5-7-foliate, long- 

 petioled ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, serrulate ; lower bracts trifoliolato, the upper 

 ones simple, eonlate-ovate ; stipules spiny ; capsule smooth, shorter than the elon- 

 gated stipe ; seeds rugose. — Waste places, Florida and westward. Muy- 

 August Introduced. Q — Stem fi° - 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" 

 nnte to the lower half of the elongated stipe of the ovary. Stigma sessile. 

 Capsule silique-like, many-seeded. — Herbs with pahnately 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, (j) — Stem 2° - 3° high. 



4. CAPPARIS, L. Caper-tree. 

 Sepals partly united, imbricated or valvate in the bad, often glandular at the 

 base. Petals imbricated in the bud. Stamens numerous. Torus small. Ovary 

 long-stipitate. Stigma sessile. Fruit fleshy, globose or BUiquc-like, many- 

 seeded. — Shrubs or trees, with simple entire coriaceous leaves, spiny or adnate 

 stipules, and mostly showy flowers. 



1. C. Jamaicensis, Jacq Leaves oblong, cmarginate, smooth alxjvc, 

 the lower surface, like the flowers and flattened branches, dotted ami 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 j 

 filaments 20-24, long, villous at the base; capsule long (('>'- 8'), cylindrical, 

 torulose, downy, long-stipitate. (Colicodendron aneeps, Shultl.) — South Flor- 

 ida.— Shrub 8° -10° high. 



2. C. cynophallophora, L. Leaves oblong, obtuse, reticulate-veined, 

 glabrous like the flowers and branches ; peduncles 4-angled, few-flowered; se- 

 pals rounded, imbricated in the bud, much shorter than the obovate white petals ; 

 filaments very long (2'), smooth ; capsule (6'-8'long) smooth, torulo8e, short- 



stipitate, pulpy within. — South Florida. — Shrub G°-8° nigh. 



Order 14. VIOL.ACF1:. (Violet Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, involute in fhe liml. Stip- 



ules persistent. Flowers irregular, axillary, on bracted peduncles, nod- 

 ding. SepaU 5, persistent, imbricated in the bud. Petals , r >, hvpogynous, 

 obliquely convolute in the bud. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, 

 connivent Anthers adnate, introrae Style single. Capsule l-celled, 

 loculicidally 8-valved, many-eeeded: valves each bearing a placenta in 

 the middle. Embryo straight, in fleshy albumen. 



