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378. Rafinesque on Cylactis, Nemopanthus, and Polansia. 
Fem. fl. calyx deciduous 5 phylle? Ovary ovate, stigma sessile 
4 lobed. Berry 4 celled 4 seeded. 
The name means flower with a filiform peduncle. A shrub 
forms this genus, which had perhaps been united with alex by 
Michaux, &c.; but it differs altogether from it by the want of 
corolla, hypogynous stamens, sessile style, &c. it does not 
ae even belong to the same family, but to the natural family 
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Rhamnidia, natural order Plynontia, and natural class Eltrogy- 
nia, next to the genus Frangula. In the sexual system it would 
belong to Dioecia pentandria, very far apart from Frangula. 
Nemopanthus fascicularis. Fascicled nemopanthus. Shrub- 
by leaves fasciculated, petiolate, oblong, mucronate, entire, 
rather undulate » membranaceous, smooth ; flowers axillary 
fasciculated, peduncles filiform, shorter than the leaves. 
It forms a small shrub from 5 to 8 feet high, covered with 
gray bark, and with slender upright branches ; the flowers are 
greenish, very small, the female flowers have shorter and 
thicker peduncles; they blossom in June. It grows on the 
Catskill mountains near the two lakes. It is, perhaps, the 
Ilex canadensis ? of Michaux and Pursh. And it has some ana- 
logy with the Frangula alnifolia. 
3. N. G. Polanisia. 
Calyx 4 phylle, phylles coloured unequal, the upper one 
unguiculated spatulated. Corolla with 4 unequal petals, the 
two upper ones larger and unguiculated. A nectarium up- 
- wards glandular, broad, and truncated. Stamina 9 to 14, une- 
qual, erect, hypogynous. Ovary oblong on a short pedicel, 
one style, one truncated stigma. Fruit a follicular capsule, one 
celled, two valved, many seeded, seeds inserted on each side 
of each suture, nearly snail-shaped. 
The type of this genus is the Cleome dodecandra of Linneus, 
under which denomination many species were blended, which 
have no similitude with the real genus cleome, differing in the 
calyx, corolla, nectarium, stamina, and fruit. I shall describe 
here that of North America, where 2 or 3 species exist, besides 
those of the West Indies, Africa, and Asia, which are totally 
