76 IX. CAPPARIDACE.E (oLiVEii). [Cleomc. 



* Capsule distinctly stipitate. 



Glandular-pilose. Leaflets 5 or 3, obovate. Capsule striate. 



Seeds pitted, glabrous 16. C.foliosa. 



Strigose. Leaflets 5 or 3, obovate. Stamens 10-14. Capsule 

 strigillose or glabrous ; valves with about 3 nervures. Seeds 

 transversely rugulose 17. C strifjosa. 



Glabrous. Leaflets 3, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or acu- 

 minate. Bracts minute, subulate. Pedicels very short. Sepals 

 linear-subulate. Capsule-valves 3-nerved, glabrous . . . . 18. C chilocahjx. 



Pubescent or puberulous. Leaflets 7-5, linear-lanceolate or linear, 

 rather obtuse. Bracts 5-3-1-foliolate. Sepals linear. Cap- 

 sule setulose-pubescent 19. C. hirta. 



Pubescent or strigillose. Leaflets 3-5, oblanceolate or oval acute. 



Bracts 1-3-foliolate. Capsule hairy or glabrate 20. C. Bororensis. 



1. C. monophylla, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 239. An erect, branching-, 

 piibescent herb, usually from 6 in, to 2 ft. .Leaves oblong- to linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute or rather obtuse, entire, base obtuse, rounded or slightly cordate, 

 usually 1-3 in. long, 2-10 lines broad ; petiole varying from 2 lines to 1 in. 

 or more. Ilacemes bracteate ; bracts linear, lanceolate or ovate, sessile or 

 subsessile. Plowers pale rose or white and red, on slender ascending pedicels. 

 Sepals narrow-linear. Stamens 6. Capsule narrow-linear, 1-4 in. long, 

 striate, shortly pilose-pubescent, tipped with the short style ; gynophore very 

 short or 0. Seeds transversely rugose. — C. cordata, Burch., DC. Prod. i. 

 239. C. subcordata, Steud. in Schirap. PI. Abyss. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet I Niger, Barter I 

 North Central, E. Vogel ! 



Nile Land, Abyssinia, 6Vi^i>«j9^r / ^nd others ; Kordofan, Cienkowski ; 5-6° south lat., 

 Speke and Gratd ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola, weed of cultivation, Br. Wehcitsch ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Br. Kirk! 

 Also at the Cape. 



2. C. papulosa, Steud. Nom. Bot. ; Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 

 Suppl. i. 3. A low scabrous or hispid herb of 4-12 in., usually with several 

 erect or ascending slender stems more or less leafy beloAv. Radical leaves 

 ovate to orbicular, shortly hispid-scabrous, entire, i-1 in. diam., petiolate ; 

 cauline leaves often cordate-based, shortly petiolate or sessile. Flowers 

 small, lax, on capillary ascending or patent pedicels. Eracts small or obso- 

 lete. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Stamens 6. Capsule narrow-linear, patent 

 or slightly decurved, sessile, glabrous or nearly so, f- 1| in. long. Style very 

 short. Seeds reniform, dark, minutely pitted-rugulose. — C. Ehrenhergiana. 

 Schweinfurth, Fl. .Ethiop. 68. C. Radula, Fenzl in Flora 1844, 312. 



Nile Ijand. Kordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Nubia, Ehrenherg. 

 Extends eastward through Arabia to N.W. India. 



*3. C. trinervia, Fresen. in Mus. Se7ick. i. 177. t. xi. Branches 1-2. 

 ft., glandular-setulose. Leaves lanceolate ovate-lanceolate or oval, rather 

 acute, more or less densely glandular, 3-nerved below, 1 in. long or less in 

 our specimens, on petioles of ^ in. or shorter. Eacemes ,at length elongate. 

 Bracts oval or linear, shorter than the pedicels or obsolete. Sepals lanceolate 

 to ovate, 3-4 times shorter than the oval clawed petals. Stameiis 6. Fruit 

 linear-oval, sessile or subsessile, 1^-2^ in. long, about 3 lines broad, pendu- 



