Vol. 44 No. 1 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
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JANUARY, 1917. 
Studies of West Indian plants—IX 
NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON 
52. CLEOME PROCUMBENS Jaca. AND ITS RELATIVES 
The small, simple-leaved Cleomes of the West Indies, form an 
interesting and peculiar group of the genus, very different in 
habit and aspect from the large, typical, compound-leaved ones. 
Seven species appear to be represented. 
Annuals or biennials. 
Pedicels filiform 
Leaves linear-oblong; pod subterete. 1. C. Sloane. 
Leaves filiform; pod compressed. : 2. C. guianensis. 
Pedicels very short; leaves very narrowly linear. 3. C. stenophylia. 
erennials with woody roots. 
Pod acute or acuminate; leaves linear to oblong, acute or 
acuminate. 
Leaves acuminate; pedicels half as long as the pods. 4. C. procumbens. 
- Leaves acute; iepan as long as the pods or longer. 
Petals about 4 mm. long; leaves oblong to oblong- 
anceolate. 5. C. Wrightit. 
‘Petals 8-10 mm. long; leaves narrowly linear. 6. C. macrorhiza. 
Pod obtuse; leaves ovate or elliptic, obtuse or rounded. 97. C, obtusa 
I. CLEOME SLOANEI Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 347. 1907 
Grassy and sandy places, at low elevations, iis aioe side of 
Jamaica. 
This species is referred by Fawcett and Rendle, as previously 
by other authors, to C. procienbans Jacq., which is, sds 
confined to Hispaniola. 
[The BULLETIN for December (43: 601-676) was issued January 10, 1917.] 
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