156 CAPPARIDACEAE. [Vor. II. 
3. Cleome lutea Hook. Yellow Cleome. (Fig. 1793.) 
Cleome lutea Hook. F1. Bor. Am. 1: 70. 
pl. 25. 1830. 
Erect, glabrous, branching, 114°- 
34° high. Leaves 5-foliolate, slender- 
petioled, or the upper 3-foliolate and 
nearly sessile; leaflets oblong or ob- 
long-lanceolate, entire, short-stalked 
or sessile, narrowed at the base, ob- 
tuse or acute and mucronulate at the 
apex, 14/-2’ long; racemes elongating 
in fruit; bracts linear-oblong, mucro- 
nate; pedicels slender, 5/’-6’’ long; 
flowers densely racemose, yellow; 
petals obovate or oblanceolate, about 
5’’ long; pod linear, 114’-3’ long, 
acute, borne on a stipe becoming longer 
than the pedicel. 
In dry soil, Nebraska to Washington 
and Arizona. June-Sept. 
2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7:85. Ad. 9. 1834. 
Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with digitately 3-foliolate leaves, and small 
white or yellowish flowers in terminal bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, slightly united 
at the base. Petals 4, laciniate or fimbriate at the summit, borne on long slender claws, the 
2 lower smaller than the 2 upper. Receptacle short, with a short petaloid nectary between 
the ovary and the upper sepal. Stamens 6-14; filaments slender, declined. Ovary stalked, 
alsodeclined. Capsule linear, nearly terete, many-seeded. [Diminutive of cris¢atus, crested. ] 
A genus of 2 species natives of the south-central United States. 
N NOG Dip 
v 1. Cristatella Jamesii T. &G. James’ 
Cristatella. (Fig. 1794.) 
Cristatella Jamesti'T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 124. 1838. 
Erect, slender, branching, 6-15’ high. Leaves 
slender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear 
or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire, 
obtuse, 4’’-12’’ long; flowers slender-pedicelled, 
whitish or yellowish; bracts mostly 3-foliolate; 
claws of the larger petals 114’/-2%’’ long; 
sepals acute or obtusish; pod ascending, much 
longer than its stipe and somewhat longer than 
the pedicel. 
In dry soil, Nebraska to Louisiana and Texas. - 
June—Dec. 
3. CLEOMELLA DC. Prodr. 1: 237. 1824. 
Annual glabrous branching erect or diffuse herbs, with small yellow flowers and 3-folio- 
late leaves. Calyx of 4 sepals. Petals 4, sessile, not clawed. Receptacle short, glandless. 
Stamens 6, inserted on the receptacle. Ovary short, long-stalked. Capsule short, rhomboid 
or trapezoid, often broader than long, 4-10-seeded. [Diminutive of Cleome.] 
A genus of about 8 species, natives of southwestern North America, extending into Mexico. 
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