32 VIOL ACE-*:. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 



1. C. pungens, Willd. Clammy-pubescent; leaves 5 - 7-foliate, long- 

 petioled; leaflets lanceolate, acute, serrulate ; lower bracts trifoliolate, the upprr 

 ones simple, cordate-ovate ; stipules spiny ; capsule smooth, shorter than the elon- 

 gated stipe ; seeds rugose. Waste places, Florida and westward. May- 

 August. Introduced, g) Stem 2 - 4 high. Petioles more or less spiny. 

 Flowers showy, purple, changing to white. 



3. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



Petals clawed, imbricated or open in the bud. Stamens 6 ; the filaments ad- 

 nate to the lower half of the elongated stipe of the ovary. Stigma sessile. 

 Capsule silique-like, many-seeded. Herbs with palraately 3 - 5-foliolate leaves, 

 and racemose bracted flowers. 



1. G. pentaphylla, DC. Clammy-pubescent; leaves 5-foliate, the lower 

 ones and bracts 3-foliolate ; leaflets oblong-obovate, nearly entire ; flowers white, 

 open in the bud ; capsules hispid ; seeds warty. Waste places, Florida to 

 North Carolina. Naturalized. May -August, (i) Stem 2 - 3 high. 



4. CAPPABIS, L. CAPER-TREE. 



Sepals partly united, imbricated or valvate in the bud, often glandular at the 

 base. Petals imbricated in the bud. Stamens numerous. Torus small. Ovary 

 long-stipitate. Stigma sessile. Fruit fleshy, globose or silique-like, many- 

 seeded. Shrubs or trees, with simple entire coriaceous leaves, spin^ or adnate 

 stipules, and mostly showy flowers. 



1. C. JamaicensiS, Jacq Leaves oblong, emarginate, smooth above, 

 the lower surface, like the flowers and flattened branches, dotted and covered 

 with minute scales ; flowers terminal, by pairs, on short 4-anglcd peduncles ; 

 sepals ovate, valvate in the bud, scarcely shorter than the oval white petals ; 

 filaments 20-24, long, villous at the base; capsule long (6'- 8'), cylindrical, 

 torulose, downy, long-stipitate. (Colicodendron anccps, Shuttl.) South Flor- 

 ida. Shrub 8- 10 high. 



2. C. cynophallophora, L. Leaves oblong, obtuse, reticulate-veined, 

 glabrous like the flowers and branches ; peduncles 4-angled, few-flowered ; se- 

 pals rounded, imbricated in the bud, much shorter than the obovate white petals ; 

 filaments very long (2'), smooth ; capsule (6'- 8' long) smooth, torulose, short- 

 etipitate, pulpy within. South Florida. Shrub 6 - 8 high. 



ORDER 14. VIOLACE^E. (VIOLET FAMILY.) 



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

 ules persistent. Flowers irregular, axillary, on bracted peduncles, nod- 

 ding. Sepals 5, persistent, imbricated in the bud. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 obliquely convolute in the bud. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, 

 connivent. Anthers adnate, introrse. Style single. Capsule 1 -celled, 

 loculicidally 3-valved, many-seeded : valves each bearing a placenta in 

 the middle. Embryo straight, in fleshy albumen. 



