CAPPAKTDACEiE. (CAPER FAMILY.) 



107 



inserted at the apex of torns. Ovary 2- oo-ovuled. Fruit 

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

 shaped, cotyledons incumbent. Albumen little or 0. 



Tribe 1. CIjEOME^. Fruit capsular, 



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



Tribe II. CAPPARE^E. Fruit fleshy, baccate, indeliiscent, 



2. CAPPARIS, Leaves simple. Petals not clawed. 



3. M^RUA. Leaves simple. Petals in ours 0. 



4. CRATiEVA. Leaves 3-foliolate. Petals long-clawed. 



1. CL.EOMIE, L. Cleome. 



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

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

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

 — PereiDuial herbs or shrubs. 



Fig. 55. 



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



Stamem 6, coalescing Mow iclth gynopJiore, free above. Learns palmate. 



1. C. pentaphylla, L. Men- 



tanaJi. Tamalihah. .5 to .8, glabrescent. 

 Leaflets of lower leaves 5, oblong -elliptical, 

 of upper 3, minute. Petals long-claw^ed, 2-5 ■ 

 times as long as calyx ; filaments free frora 

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

 much longer than gynophore ; seeds concen- 

 trically lorinkled — Spring — Plain of Sharon. 



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



t Leaves d-foliolate, or the U23p>er only 

 simjyle. 



I Seeds woolly. 



2. C. Arabica, L. 



Zifrah. Shajarat wahhsh . 

 glandular-pubescent, branched. Leaflets 

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

 57) sessile, pendulous, oblong, reticulate, 

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



Fig. 56. 



Um-Rumail. 



to .5, densely Flower of Cleome pentaphylla (a) 

 Four of the six stamens, (b) The 

 ovary. (,c) The gynophore, {d) 

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

 The pedicel. 



Ain-el-beidha at 



lower end of Dead sea, and southward. 



