﻿TAB. XXVIII. 



Cleomella Mexicana. 



Cleomella Mexicana. « Ic. FL Mex. ined:'—De Cand. Prodr, 



v,\.p. 237. 



Drummond (H 



Professor De Canclolle seems to have derived his sole know- 

 ledge of this interesting plant from an unpublished drawing. 

 Mr. Drummond gathered it in Texas, and has thus enabled me 

 to figure it. The plant is annual, a foot and more high, 

 branched upwards, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliate; 

 leaflets linear-lanceolate, entire, the upper ones bifoliate or 

 simple. Flowers in leafy or bracteated racemes, small, yellow. 

 Calyx of 4 small sepals. Corolla of 4 equal, subspathulate petals. 

 Stamens 6. Filaments curved ; Anther linear-oblong. Gemien 

 stipitate. Ca2)sule somewhat rhomboidal, reticulated. Seeds 



4—5. 



Embryo conduplicate. 



Fig. 1. Flower. / 2. Pistil. / 3. Capsule. / 4. Seed. 

 / 5. Receptacle (the seeds and two valves having fallen away) : 

 magnified. 



