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5-I in. long, those of the upper leaves very short. Flowers small, pink, 

 in long slender bracteate racemes 5 pedicels filiform ; bracts small (the 

 uppermost flowers of raceme ebracteate). Sepals lanceolate, glandular. 

 Petals clawed. Stamens 6. Capsules glabrous or slightly papillose, 

 striate, very slender, |-1| in. long by 3^- in. in diam. Grynophore 

 almost 0. Seeds minute, brown-black, glabrous, granulate. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 1, p. 168 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 122.— 

 Flowers : Aug, 



Sind: Dcdzell,M\, Stocks], Vicari/l; Rocks in Sind, Stocks I; Thano-Bula-Khan 

 Road, 34 miles from Karachi, Woodrow. — Distrib. Abyssinia, Nubia, Kordofau, 

 Arabia. 



3. Cleome quinquenervia, DC. Prodr. v. 1 (1824) p. 239. 

 Glaucous, 6-12 in. high, the whole plant clothed with glandular hairs; 

 branches many from a woody base, rigid, terete. Leaves i-1 in. in diam., 

 ovate or suborbicular, subcordate, palmately 5-nerved from the base, 

 margins ciliate with gland-tipped hairs ; petioles glandular-hairy, those 

 of the lower leaves 1-1 1 in. long, those of the upper leaves shorter. 

 Flowers pale pink, in the axils of leafy bracts on short i-acemes ; bracts 

 ovate, acute, subsessile ; pedicels slender, |-g in. long. Sepals linear, 

 acute, half as long as the petals, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs. Petals 

 ovate, acute, with a crested appendage across the inside a little above 

 the base, glabroiis except the tips. Stamens 4. Capsules 1-1 5 by §-■ g-in., 

 narrow obloug, acute at both ends, straight or slightly curved, rough 

 with short, thick, gland-tipped hairs. Gynophore 0. Seeds minute, 

 numerous, smooth, chestnut-brown. Fl. B. I. v. ], p. 168 ; T. Anders., 

 Fl. Aden., in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 5, Suppl. 1, p. 3 ; Griflf. Itin. notes, 

 322, n. 1261 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 122. CUome 

 pentanervia, Ait. Cat. Pb. & Sind PL p. 9. — Flowers : Oct. 



Sind: Laki (Karachi district), JVoodrow '.; hills in Siud, Vicart/l — Distrib. Persia, 

 Afghanistan, Arabia. 



4. Cleome Stocksiana, Boiss. Diag. ser. 2 (1853) fasc. 1, p. 47. 

 Perennial, branched from the base, the lower branches striate, subglabrous, 

 the upper glandular. Leaves fleshy, g-lj by 5-I in., glandular-pubes- 

 cent or subglabrous, palmately 3-nerved ; petioles |-1 in. long, glandular 

 or smooth. Flowers small, in the axils of leafy bracts on an elongate 

 raceme ; pedicels glandular, ^-g in. long ; bracts elliptic or obovate, 

 shortly stalked, glandular. Septals elliptic-oblong. Petals obovate- 

 spathulate, veined with dark purple veins, clawed. Capsules broadly 

 linear, 1^ by ^ in., gland-dotted, reticulately veined, shining inside, 

 pendulous. Gynophore very short. Seeds in 2 series, at first hairy, the 

 hairs soon falling off, globose, chestnut-brown. Fl. B. I, v. 1, p. 169 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 1, p. 414; Griff. Itin. notes, 225, n. 183 ; Ait. Cat. 

 Pb. & Sind PI. p. 9 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 122. 

 — Flowers : Oct. 



Sind: Boogta Hills, Vicart/l; Laki (Karachi district), Woodrow \ — ^Distrib. Belu- 

 chistan. 



5. Cleome simiplicifolia, Hooh. f. Sj- Thorns, in Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 169. 

 Annual, 6-18 in. high ; whole plant clothed with short, rigid, spinulose 

 hairs from glandular bases ; branches many from the base, ascending, 

 furrowed. Leaves |-1| by g-| in., obovate or oblong-elliptic, strigose 



