Gynandropsis^ Cappavidece. 57 



5. C. viscosa, L. Sp. PI. 672 (1753). Wal-aba, Ran-manissa, S. 



Herm. Mus. 13. Burm. Thes. 215. Fl. Zeyl. nn. 240 and 241, 

 C. icosandra, L. Sp. PI. 672. Moon Cat. 48. Polattisia viscosa, Thw. 

 Enum. 14. C. P. 1073. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 170. Burm. Thes. t. 99. Wight, Ic. t. 2. 



An annual herb, 1-3 ft., erect, sparingly branched, softly 

 glandular-hairy and viscid throughout ; 1. 3-5-foliolate, Iflts. 

 sessile, ovate, entire, terminal the largest, lateral often unequal 

 at base, petioles \-\ in., becoming shorter above and upper- 

 most (bracts) often sessile ; fl. | in. diam., on axillary ped. 

 \ in. long ; sep. ovate, acute ; pet. twice length of sep., obtuse, 

 long-clawed, 2 approximate, 2 divaricate; stam. 12-24, anth. 

 linear, curled, blue-black ; pod 2-4 in., without a gynophore, 

 erect, linear, cylindrical, tipped by glabrous blunt style, very 

 viscous ; seeds black, finely ridged on back. 



Low country ; a very common weed in cultivated ground. 



Fl. Jan.-March ; lemon-yellow. 



Throughout the tropical and warm regions of the world. 



Linnaeus distinguishes his C. icosandra by having quinquefoliate 

 leaves and 24 stamens. There is neither specimen nor figure of this 

 form in Hermann's collection, but Burman's plate well represents it. 



2. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



Annual herbs ; sep. 4 ; pet. 4, .with long claws ; stam. 6, 

 inserted halfway up the gynophore ; ov. at summit of a very 

 long gynophore, ovules numerous, style none ; capsule linear, 

 2-valved ; seeds reniform, embryo helicoid. — Sp. 10; i in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



Cr. pentaphylla, DC. Prod. i. 238 (1824). Wela, 5. Tayir- 

 valai, T. 



Herm. Mus. i, 30. Burm. Thes. 215. Fl. Zeyl. n. 239. Cleotne 

 gy?tandra, L. Sp. ed. i. C. pentaphylla, L. Sp. ed. 2. Moon Cat. 47. 

 Thw. Enum. 14. C. P. 2460. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 170. Rheede, Hort. Mai. ix. t. 34. Bot. Mag. t. 1681. 



An erect, branched annual, 2-4 ft., stem shaggy, with long, 

 white, spreading hair; 1. 5-foliolate, Iflts. sessile, broadly ovate, 

 acute, entire, pubescent on both sides and ciliate, pale beneath, 

 terminal largest, \\-2 in., petioles 2 in., stout, hairy and rough 

 with prickles ; fl. at first distinctly corymbose, afterwards in 

 long erect racemes, bracts of 3 sessile leaflets, many empty, 

 ped. over \ in., viscid-pubescent ; sep. narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, glandular- pubescent ; pet. rotundate, with a long, 

 narrow claw, thrice the length of sep., all curved upwards ; 

 gynophore i-i^ in., slightly curved upwards; stam. inserted 

 about half-way up ; ov. on summit of gynophore, linear- 



