CAPPARIDACE^. (CAPER FAMILY.) 107 



inserted at the apex of torus. Ovary 2- co-ovuled. Fruit 

 capsular, dehiscent, 2-valved, or beny-like. Seeds kidney- 

 shaped, cotyledons incumbent. Albumt^n little or 0. 



Tribe 1. CIjEOME^. Fruit capsular, 



1, CLEOME. Capsule resembling a silique, 2-valved, many-seeded. 



Tribe II. CAPPAREiE. Fruit fleshy, baccate, indehiscent, 



2, CAPPARIS, Leaves simple. Petals not clawed. 



3. JVliERUA. Leaves simple. Petals in ours 0. 



4. CRAT^VA. Leaves 3-foliolate. Petals long-clawed. 



1. CI.EOME, L. Cleome. 



Calyx 4-parted with deciduous lobes. Petals 4, hypogynous. 

 Stamens (in ours) 4-14. Torus hemispherical or elongated. Capsule 

 stipitate or sessile, the two valves at length separating from placentae 

 — Pereauial herbs or shrubs. 



Fig. 55. 



Rfpe pod of Cleome pentaphylla, showing the stalk between the pod and pedicel 

 * Stamens 6, coalescing Moid with gynoijliore, free alove. Learns 'palmate ^ 



1. C. pentaphylla, L. © Men- ~ 



tanah, TamaWkaJi. .5 to .8, gla])rescent. 

 Leaflets of lower leaves 5, oblong-elliptical, 

 of upper 3, minute. Petals long-clawed, 2-5 

 times as long as calyx ; filaments free from 

 middle of gynopliore ; capsule (Fig. 55)linear, 

 much longer than gynophore ; seeds concen- 

 trically wrinhled — Spring — Plain of Sharon. 



* * Stamens 4-6, free from their lase. 



t Leaves ^-foliolate^ or the upper only 

 simple. 



I Seeds iDoolly. 



2. C. Arabica, L. Um.-Rimml. 

 Zifrah. Shajarat wahhsh .3 to .5, densely 

 glandular-pubescent, branched. Leaflets 

 oblong-linear .015 to .03 long. Pods (Fig. 

 57) sessile, pendulous, oblong, reticulate, 

 glandular, ,04 to .05 long, .008 broad — 

 lower end of Dead sea, and southward. 



Flower of Cleome pentaphylla (a) 

 Four of the six stamens. (&) The 

 ovary, (c) The gynophore. (</) 

 The petals, (e) The sepals. (/) 

 The pedicel. 



Spring — Ain-el-beidha at 



