32 VIOLACE.E. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 



white ; stamens 10-12, barely longer than the petals ; style shorter than the 

 ovary ; capsule nearly sessile. Margins of ponds, Tennessee. 



3. P. uniglandulosa, DC. Glandular-pubescent; leaflets and bracts 

 ovate or oblong ; raceme loosely many flowered ; petals yellow (' long), the 

 obovate notched limb as long as the capillary claw; stamens 20-30,2-3 

 times as long as the petals ; style longer than the ovary ; capsule stipitate. 

 Koadsides, Dadeville, Alabama (Molir). 



2. CLEOME, L. 



Petals long-clawed, nearly equal, entire. Stamens 6, the filaments distinct, 

 Stigma sessile. Capsule silique-like, stipitate, or nearly sessile, many-seeded. 

 Chiefly annuals, with pulmately 3 - 7-foliolate leaves with spiny stipules, or 

 none, and racemose bracted flowers. 



1. C. pungens, Willd. Clammy-pubescent; leaves 5 - 7-foliolate, the 

 leaflets lanceolate ; bracts cordate ; flowers purple ; capsule shorter than the 

 elongated stipe. Waste ground. Introduced. Stem 2 -4 high. 



3. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



Like the preceding, but the filaments partly aduate to the stipe of the 

 ovary. 



1. G. pentaphylla, DC. Stem 2 -3 high; leaves 3 - 5-foliolate, the 

 leaflets oblong obovate ; flowers white ; capsule hispid. Waste ground. 

 Introduced. 



4. CAPPARIS, L. CAPER-TREE. 



Sepals partly united, often with a gland at the base. Petals imVricated. 

 Stamens numerous. Stigma sessile. Fruit mostly silique-like, stipitate, 

 many seeded. Shrubs or trees, with simple entire coriaceous leaves, spiny 

 or aduate stipules, and mostly showy flowers. 



1. C. Jamaicensis, Jacq. Leaves elliptical, the lower surface, like 

 the branches and inflorescence, covered with minute scales; peduncles 2- 

 flowered ; sepals ovate, valvate, about half the length of the white petals ; 

 stamens 16 -32, villous at the base ; capsule dry. Keys of South Florida. 

 Shrub 8 -10 high. 



2. C. cynophallophora, L. Leaver ol 1 >ng, glabrous ; peduncles 

 few-flowered ; sepals imbricated, rounded, much shorter than the white petals; 

 stamens indefinite, naked, 2' long ; capsule pulpy within. Coast and keys 

 of South Florida. A shrub or small tree. 



ORDER 13. VIOLACE^E. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, involute in the bud. 

 .Stipules persistent. Flowers irregular, axillary, on bracted peduncles, 

 nodding. Sepals 5, persistent, imbricated in the bud. Petals 5, hv- 

 pogynous, obliquely convolute in the bud. Stamens .">. alternate with 

 the petals, connivent. Anthers adnate, introrse. Style single. Cap- 



