Cleome.| CAPPARIDACEAE. 13 
pods pee paces the latter 4-cornered and beaked, 6—12” long. 
Seeds black. — Sinapis nigra, L. 
ack Mustard, bog oolong in some places of Hawaii and E. Maui! where it 
Th 
was caictvasea in form 
udsen’s pean i san A a@ scrap of gue sativus, the common Radish, 
but I doubt if it be more than an accidental escap 
Orper V. CAPPARIDACEAE. 
Sepals 4, free or partly united. Petals 4, rarely 8 or none. Stamens 
usually indefinite, or, if definite, 6 or more, often unequal. Anthers ob- 
long, erect. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 2 or rereny more parietal pla- 
many ovules. 
short or almost wanting, the stigma generally round. Frui er a dehiscent 
pod or an indehiscent berry. Seeds generally reniform, witb — 
the embryo coiled. — Herbs, shrubs or climbers, rarely trees, with alte 
nate simple or digitate leaves. Stipules usually none, rarely eecuaaed 
or small. Flowers in terminal racemes, or axillary and solitary. The 
ovary in several genera, and sometimes the stamens also, are raised on 
a ates or elongate receptacle within the flower. 
derable Order, found chiefly within the tropics, a few species stretching north- 
oie tee more temperate regio 
Fruit a dehiscent capsule; leaves ‘foliolate: 
— Oe in gies og e z 1, Cleome. : 
Stam part ¢ e with the 1 elongate gynophore . . 2, @ynandropsis. 
Fruit inseienese ety cca simple 3 3. Capparis. 
1. CLEOME, L 
Calyx 4-parted or of 4 sepals. Petals 4, imbricate or open in the bud. 
ry 
Capsule silique-shaped, 2-valved, separating from the intervalvular placenta. 
Seeds rough or hairy. Radicle conical. — an with digitate leaves and 
terminal racemes. 
About 70 species, most numerous in America, Egypt and Arabia. 
. C. Sandwicensis, Gray, Bot. U. 8S. E. Exp. p. 65. — Erect, about 
2 ft. high, clothed with a viscous pubescence, the stem, petiole and ribs 
of leaflets sparsely aculeate with small prickles, the stipular ones strongest. 
Leaflets 5, oblong-lanceolate, 2—2'/2' long, gray-pubescent on both faces. 
Floral leaves or bracts ovate or oblong, often subcordate, 3--2‘ long, on 
short petioles. Pedicels 1’. Calyx of 4 sepals 11/2” long, viscous- hairy. 
3, obovate, on short claws, pale rose- colored. Stamens 6, long 
rted, all antheriferous, the linear anthers 2“ long. Pod 
eae long, 2 thick, terete, smooth, with subsessile stigma, raised | on 
