56 CapparidecB. [Cleome. 



Puttalam and Chilaw, but easily overlooked, and likely to occur in other 

 dry tracts. 



Fl. Oct., Nov. ; ' purplish.' 



Also in S. India, Nubia, and Senegal. 



3. C. aspera, Koen. in DC. Prod. i. 241 (1824). 



Thw. Enum. 14. C. P. 1068. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 169. Wight, Ic. t. 287. 



A branched annual herb, 6-24 in., branches ascending, 

 glabrous, more or less rough with small distant prickles ; 

 1. trifoliolate, on petioles as long as or longer than themselves ; 

 Iflts. sessile, ovate, acute or subobtuse, finely serrate, glabrous ; 

 fl. solitary, very small, on long ped., from axils of upper 1., 

 (bracts), forming a very elongated leafy raceme ; stam. 6 ; 

 pods 1-2 in., tapering into the sharp style at apex, and 

 gradually to the slender gynophore at base, linear, often 

 somewhat torulose ; ped. slender, \ in., spreading horizon- 

 tally; seeds pale brown, strongly ridged on the back. 



Low country, in sandy places common ; especially near the coast in 

 the dry districts. 



Fl. Dec-March ; pink (not 'yellow' as in Fl. B. Ind.). 

 Also in Southern India. 



C. Burmanni., W. and A., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. i. 170, 

 the authority being ' Koenig, &c.' There are no specimens in the herbaria 

 of Peradeniya, Kew or the Brit. Mus. C. dodecujuira., L. is given generally 

 as synonymous with this, and is based on Fl. Zeyl. n. 242 ; but Hermann's 

 drawing (there is no specimen) seems to be merely 3-foliolate C. inscosa; 

 Burman's figure, however (Thes. Zeyl. t. 100 f. i 1, shows a different plant, 

 quite glabrous, and Linnaeus' description seems to be partly taken from 

 this figure. The species is doubtfully distinct from C. aspera., and is 

 perhaps included under above description. 



4. C. Chelidonii, L.f. Suppl. PL 300 (1781). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. x.wii. 161. 



Fl. li. Ind. i. 170. Wight, Ic. t. 319. 



An annual herb, 6-12 in., slightly branched, stem slightly 

 scabrid ; 1. on very long petioles, 5-9- usually 7-foliolate, 

 Iflts. sessile, obovatc, very obtuse, entire, densely appressed- 

 hairy on both sides ; fl. few, large, if in. diam., ped. 4-1 in., 

 solitary in leaf-axils ; sep. ovate, acute ; pet. rounded, not 

 clawed ; stam. very numerous, fil. thick ; pods 3 in. or more, 

 without a gynophore, linear, tapering ; seeds pale brown, 

 slightly muriculate on back. 



Dry low country ; very rare, and as yet only found at Mineri Tank in 

 the N. Central Prov., in Sept. 1885. 



Fl. Sept. ; pink. 



In several places in .South India and also in Java. 

 \C.fclina., L. f, is founded on a plant of Koenig"s collecting, and the 

 locality given as 'Zeylona.' But it was probably from the Coromandel 

 coast, as no specimens are known from Ceylon.] 



