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CAPPARIDACE^. (CAPER FAMILY.) 



I I Seeds glabrous. 



3. C. ornitliopodokles, L. © .3 to .5, 



sparingly glandular-pubescent, sparingly branched 

 above. Leaflets oblong-linear .01 to .03 long. 

 Pods stipitate or sessile, d«tiexed, linear, striate, 

 torulose, slightly papillose-glandular, .03 to .05 

 long, .0015 broad — Spring — Aintab and north- 

 ward and eastward. 



4. C bracliycarpa, Vahl. 21 Berlerdn. 

 .3 to .4, glandular, branching from neck. Leaflets 

 thickish, lenticular to obovate-oUong, .005 to .01 

 long, floral minute, often simjile. Pods sessile, 

 glandular, .01 to .013 long, .002 broad — Spring 

 — Sinai near Red Sea. 



Fig. 57. 



1 1 Leaves sim2yle. 

 I Stamens 6. Pods sliort-stipitate. 



woolly., 



Pod of Cleome Arabic*. 



5. C. Kotschyaiia, Boiss. If .3, herbaceous, glaucous, glabrous 

 below ; stems simple or sparingly branched. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved ; upper sessile, minute, ovate-oblong. Petals _2J<:<?e, 

 obsoletely veined ; pods linear-spiatliulate, glabrous, .05 long, .013 to 

 .015 broad at upper end — Spring — Desert between Hamath and 

 Palmyra, and eastward. 



6. C. trinervia, Fresen. If .5 to .6, demely scabrous with yellow, 

 stipitate glands, branching from base. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, 

 3-nerved, the lower .03 long, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, the upper 

 minute, oblong, to oblanceolate. Petals reddish, veined ; pods linear^ 

 .05 to .07 long, .005 to .006 broad, glandular-scah^ous — Spring — 

 Gravel ; in valleys and plains about the Dead Sea, and southward to 

 Sinai and Arabia. 



\ X Stamens 4. Pods not stijntate. Seeds glabrous, minutely dotted. 



7, C, droserifolia, Del'. 5 Mhh-el-bard. ,3 to .6, strigose with 

 stipitate, yellow glands, much branched from base, brittle. Leaves long- 

 petioled, round to lidney-shajyed or cordate, .01 long and broad. Petals 

 yellow; pods oblong-cylindrical, scarcely .01 long, .003 broad, shorter 

 than pedicels, glandular — Spring — Around the Dead Sea, and south- 

 ward to Sinai and the Egyptian desert. 



til Stamens 10-14. Seeds glabrous. 



8, C. clirysaiitlia, Decaisne. 5 Sufeir atdn. .3 or more, shrub- 

 by, glandular, branches flexuous. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, acutish 

 .006 to .008 long. Pods ovate .005 long, glandular ; pedicels t/wisted, 

 recurved — Spring — Sinai. 



2. CAPPARIS, L. Caper. Kabar. 

 Calyx 4-parted. Petals 4, imbricated in bud. Torus short. Sta- 



