184 CAPPARIDACE^. Cleome. 



C. llitea, PIooK. Glabrous, a span to 2 feet high : leaves 3-7-foliolate : leaflets from liuear- 

 laiiceolate to oblong, entire : bracts simple, mostly slender-mufrouate : raceme in flower 

 dense : petals golden yellow : appendage to torus a short and thick gland : stipe shorter 

 than or about the length of the pedicel, equalling or shorter than the oblong to nearly linear 

 (half incli to inch and a half long) capsule : seeds 6 to 20, smooth or in age tuberculate. — 

 PI. Bor.-Am. i. 70, t. 25; Lindl. Bot. Keg. xxvii. t. 67 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 51. 

 C. lutea & C. aurea (Nutt.), Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 122; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 32. Ferltoma 

 aurca, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 15. — Along streams, N. Wyoming and Idaho to 

 Oregon and W. Nevada, south to Colorado ; i first coll. by Douglas. 

 ■i— -t— Sepals distinct to base, deciduous. 



C platycarpa, Torr. A foot or two high, villous-pubescent and somewhat viscid : leaves 

 loug-petioled : leaflets 3, petiolulate, oval and oblong : bracts simple : raceme in flower 

 dense ; petals golden yellow : ovary in some flowers abortive : sepals slender-subulate : gland 

 of torus obsolete: style short and slender: stipe equalling or shorter than the turgid oval 

 8-12-seeded capsule. — Bot. Wilkes Exped. 235, t. 2; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 51. 

 — Alkaline soil, Oregon to N. California and W. Nevada; first coll. by Pickering & 

 Brackenridge. 



C. sparsif olia, Watson. Glabrous, a span or two high, diffusely branched : leaves 

 minutel}' stipulate, 3-foliolate or upper simple (in original specimens small and scanty, in 

 better ones slender-petioled) : leaflets rather fleshy, spatulate or oblong-linear, 3 to 5 lines 

 long : flowers few and sparse in the raceme, with linear petiolate bracts, short-pedicelled : 

 sepals ovate : petals 3 or 4 lines long, yellow with tinge of green, spatulate, at length narrow 

 and undulate, appendaged at base within by an adnate broad and iuflexed nectariferous 

 scale: stamens not longer than the petals.- torus globular, with truncate summit obtusely 

 4-toothed outside the stamens and no gland within : stipe barely 2 lines long : capsule linear, 

 three fourths to one and one half inches long, 8-10-seeded. — Bot. King Exp. 32, t. 5.- — 

 W. Nevada, in the Carson Desert, Watson. In sand at Rhodes, with good flowers and 

 foliage, ShocUey.^ 



C. Sonorae, Gray. Glabrous, erect, a foot or two high: leaves short-petioled and upper 

 almost sessile : leaflets 3, very narrowly linear as also- the simple similar bracts : raceme 

 loose : petals white and rose-color, spatulate, 2 lines long : capsule cyliudraceous, torulose, 

 6-8-seeded, pendulous on a usually shorter stipe from the much longer and spreading filiform 

 pedicel: seeds smooth. — PI. Wright, ii. 16; Rothrock in Wheeler, Rep. vi. 67. — Saline 

 soil, S. Arizona, Wright, Thurhcr. S. W. Colorado in San Luis Valley, Rothrock, 



5. CLEOMELLA, DC. (Diminutive of Cleome.) — South-central N. 

 American and adjacent Mexican annuals, with trifoliolate leaves but sometimes 

 simple bracts, small yellow flowers, and more or less stipitate odd-shaped capsules. 

 Leaves except in one species petiolate and leaflets short-petiolulate. — Prodr. i. 

 237 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 173, t. 75 ; Torr. in Gray, PI. Wright, i. 11. 



* Smooth and glabrous : no stipules : flowers racemose : capsules porrect on conspicuous 



pedicel and stipe. 

 -I— Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse or retuse, barely mucronulate : seeds smooth, not 



tapering at base. 

 C. MexioA.na, DC 1. c., Morino & Sesse, Ic. (Caiques, t. 19 & xxxi), of Mexico, is low and 

 diffuse; with small leaves, those sulttcnding the flowers similar to the lower and little shorter 

 than the pedicels; and stipe sliorter than the very oblate capsule, the divaricate valves at 

 maturity oldong-conical. 



C. longipes, Torr. Erect, a foot or two high, rather robust, with naked and ample 

 racemes : leaflets oblong or spatulate-obovate, inch or less long : bracts mostly simjile and 



1 A fragmentary and dubious specimen comes from Nebraska, Wilcox; species also rejiorted from 

 N. Arizona, by M. E. Jones, Zee, ii. 236. 



2 Add Jones, Bull. Torr. Club, x. 33. 



3 Also collected by Cotnlle & Funston about Keeler, Calif., where it is said to be abundant ; see 

 Coville, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 66. 



