Cleomella. CAPPARIDACE^. 185 



small: filaments esserted : style distinct: stipe in fruit half or three fourths inch long, very 

 slender, usually longer than the pedicel : valves of the capsule obliquely conical. — Torr. in 

 Hook. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. ii. 255, & in Gray, PI. Wright, i. 11 ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 

 33 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 52, the var. gra.ndijlora every way larger than the original 

 Mexican specimens, but fully connected. — W. Texas to Nevada and adjacent border of 

 California and Arizona, Wrirjht, Anderson, Watson, &c. (North Mexico, Berlandier, Gregg.) 



■i— 4— Leaflets and simple bracts linear or the wider linear-lanceolate. 



++ Stamens more or less prominently exserted : stipe of capsule elongated. 



C. angustif olia, Torr. Erect, a foot or two high, with rather dense flowering racemes : 

 leaflets mostly inch and a half long, 2 to 4 lines wide, acutely or acuminately mucronate : 

 petals over 2 lines long : style hardly any : stipe shorter than the slender pedicel, longer 

 than the rhomboidal capsule, the valves of which are obtusely conical or helmet-shaped, 

 sometimes in age more extended and horn-shaped : seeds tapering at base, rugulose at 

 maturity. — Torr. 1. c. 12, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 35; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 404, 

 & Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, 58, as C. tenuifoUa. C. Mexicana, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 

 167; Hook. Ic. t. 28; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 121 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. t. 75; not DC — Plains 

 of Arkansas or Kansas and Texas ; first coll. by James. 



C. plocasperma, Watson. Diffuse, a span or two high, with rather open racemes : leaf- 

 lets and bracts quarter to half inch long, obtuse^ barely mucronulate : petals hardly 2 lines 

 long : style conspicuous : stipe and pedicel each about a quarter inch long, twice or thrice 

 the length of the broadly rhomboid capsule, the valves of which are helmet-shaped : seeds 

 tapering at base, smooth or nearly so. — Bot. King Exp. 33; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 52. 

 — Saline soil, Nevada, Watson, Burgess, Brandegee. 



C. oocarpa, Gray. Erect, often diffusely branched, a span to a foot high : leaflets linear, 

 obtuse, inch or less long : bracts similar but smaller and setaceous-mucronate : petals 3 lines 

 long: style conspicuous: stipe and pedicel of about equal length (quarter to half inch): 

 capsule small, not over 2 lines long, ovate, only obscurely rhomboidal, the valves only 

 moderately navicular : seeds smooth and shining, of broadly obovate outline, not produced 

 at base. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 72; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 52. — Saline plains of 

 S. W. Colorado and Nevada, and on the Mohave Desert in California, Brandegee, Torrey, 

 Parish, &c. 



-H- -H- Stamens not longer than the barely line long petals : stipe short. (Perhaps cleistog- 

 amous.) 



C. parviflora, Gray. Slender, a span to a foot high, at length diffuse : leaflets and bracts 

 narrowly linear, the larger inch long : racemes loose : pedicels filiform, half inch to inch long 

 in fruit : style very short or obsolete : capsule obovate, barely 2 lines long ; valves gibbous- 

 navicular: seeds smooth, not attenuate at base. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 520; Wats. 1. c. — 

 Mohave Desert, California (first coU. by Cooper), to N. W. Nevada, where first coll. by 

 A7iderson. 



* * Smooth and glabrous : no stipules : flowers very small, short-pedicelled in the axils of 

 nearly all the subsessile leaves : very short capsule deflexed. 



C. brevipes, Watson. A span or two high, diffusely branched and flowering from the 

 base : leaves thickish, at most half inch long, mainly 3-foliolate and the subsessile leaflets 

 linear-spatulate, but the upper of similar simple leaves : flowers barely a line long, on 

 pedicels of liardly greater length : petals roundish, apparently whitish : stamens minute : 

 style very sliort: capsule a line or two long, on a stipe not longer than the minute calyx, 

 globose-ovate, 2-4-seeded, pendulous by the recurvation eitlier of the minute stipe or of tlie 

 pedicel. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 365. — Mohave De.sert, S.E.California, at Camp Cady 

 (where also is found the preceding), Parish.^ 



* * * Pubescent or hirsute : tufts of deciduous bristles fur stipules : slender-.stipitate cap- 

 sule deflexed. 



1 Subsequently collected near Keeler, Inyo Co., Calif., by Coville & Funsfon (see C'ontrib. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. iv. 67), whose specimens show the capsule to be broadly deltoid in outline, 1^ lines long 

 by 2i lines in 1)readth. The species has also been reported from Newberry Sta., Calif, (see Zoe 

 iv, 414). 



