30 X. CAPPARIDACE.^. 



Trees or shrubs ; fruit berried or capsular. 



Sepals combined at the base into a tub3 4. M^rua. 



Sepals distinct, inserted on the edge of the disk 5. Or.vt^va. 



Sepals biseriate. 



Stamens 4-6, inserted half way up the gyaophore fi. Oadaba. 



Stamens 8-oo , inserted at the base of the gynophore... 7. Cappakis. 



1. CLEOME, Linn. 



Herbs. LeaA-es simple or 3-9-£oliolate, entire or serrulate. Flowers 

 solitary or racemose, white, yellow, pink or purple. Sepals 4, spreading. 

 Petals 4, subeqnal, sometimes subunilateral. Stamens 4-8, inserted on 

 the torus. Ovary sessile or with a A'ery short gynophore ; ovules many, 

 on 2 parietal placentas ; style short or 0. Capsule usually elongate, 

 sometimes inflated, sessile or stalked, 1-celled, 2-valved ; valves mem- 

 branous, separating from the persistent placentas. Seeds reniform. — 

 DiSTRiB. In tropical or warm regions throughout the world ; species 

 about 90. 



Leaves simple. 

 Stamens (5 or less. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, penninerved; bracts petiolate. 1. C. monophylla. 

 Leaves ovate, cordate, penninerved ; bracts small, 



sessile 2. C. papiUosa. 



Leaves suborbicular, palmately 5-nerved ; bracts leafy... 3. C. quinquenervla. 

 Leaves fleshy, ovate or obovate, 3-nerved ; bracts small . 4. C. Stocksiana. 

 Stamens 10-12. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate ; bracts leafy 5. C. simpUcifolia. 



Leaves compound. 



Stamens 6 ; leaflets not exceeding h in. ; capsule sessile. 

 Herb with an odor of musk or rue ; stem witliout 



prickles 6. C. hrachtjcarpa. 



Herb with distant prickles on the stem and leaves 7. C. aspera. 



Stamens 6 ; leaflets 1 in. ; capsule stalked 8. C. Burmanni, 



Stamens 10 or more. 



Capsule glandular-pubescent ; flowers yellow 9. C. viscosa. 



Capsule smooth ; flowers rosy 10. C. Chelidonii. 



1. Cleome monophylla, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 672. Erect, 

 branched, 1-2 ft. high, more or less hairy or pubescent ; stems striate. 

 Leaves simple, 1-3 by |-| in., passing gradually into bracts above, 

 oblong-lanceolate, base truncate, rounded or cordate ; petioles slender, 

 1-1 2 in. long. Plowers pink (not yellow .as erroneously described by 

 Linnaeus), solitary in the a.xils of stalked, leafy bracts, in a long erect 

 raceme ; pedicels slender ; bracts ovate or subdeltoid, cordate, strongly 

 pubescent. Stamens 6. Sepals linear, acute, ciliate with gland-tipped 

 hairs. Petals oblong, rounded at top, clawed. Capsules 24-3| by -r'j-i i'"'-' 

 siibcylindric, ])ointed, striate, clothed with short stout hairs. Gynophore 

 very short or 0. Seeds transversely rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 168; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 7 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 8; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. l,p. 55; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 122.— Flowers : Nov, 



Acommouweed. Dhocan : Gokak, JFfloi^raw. Q-iijarat; Woodrow. S.M. Country: 

 Belgaum, Ritchie, 24! Badarai, Cooke I, Woodrowl —Distrib. Tropical Africa, 



2. Cleome papiUosa, Stem?. Nomen. ed. 2 (1840) v. 1, p. 382. A 

 niucli-branclicd ])l;iiit, tough with glandular hairs; branches slender. 

 Leaves ^- 1 in. in diam., elliptic-ovate to orbicular, entire, rounded or 

 cordate at the base, scabrid and jiapillose; petioles of the lower leaves 



