Cleome.] ix. capparidace^ (oliver). 79 



glandular-puberulous with or without scattered short aculei often present at 

 the base of the petioles. Leaves S-foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late, shortly petiolulate, acuminate, at first hispidulo-pubescent or setulose, 

 especially on the midrib and veins. Racemes with numerous elliptical or 

 oval acute sessile or shortly petiolate bracts. Flowers pink. Sepals linear- 

 Janceolate. Stamens about 6, much exserted (inserted within a fleshy disk 

 in one specimen). Capsule linear-oval, on patent pedicels 1^-2^ in. long, 3-4 

 lines broad, on long stipes of 1-1 i in., glabrous, finely striate when dry ; 

 stigma capitate sessile or subsessile. Seeds globose-reniform, smooth or 

 nearly so. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, W. C. Thorfison ! 



(? Congo, Smith, a very bad specimen.) 



C. spinosa is an American species. I have had imperfect material for determination and 

 the African plant may prove a distinct species, though certainly nearly allied to some New 

 World forms of confused synonymy. It is near to C. micrantha, Desv. 



12. C. Iberidella, TTelw. mss. An erect, minutely and thinly glandu- 

 lar-setulose herb, branched below, |-1^ ft. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets 

 linear, scarcely acute or mucronulate, with the petioles, which they usually 

 exceed, sparsely setulose or glabrescent. . Erect flowering branches with 

 very numerous or almost crowded, minute, sessile, 3-foliolate or simple 

 bracts. Pedicels patent, capillary, i— | in., glandular-puberulent. Sepals 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Petals nearly equal, linear, narrowed below. 

 Stamens 6, aH fertile. Capsule linear, decurved, about 1 in. long, finely 

 striate, with a slender, subulate, persistent style, and stipes of about 2 lines. 

 Seeds transversely tuberculate-mgose. 



Ijovrer Guinea. Angola ; Pungo-Audongo, abundant in sandy and stony places by 

 the Cuanza, Br. Welwitsch ! 



13. C. didjrnainay Hochst. in Schimp.Fl. Abyss. An erect, branched, 

 perfectly glabrous, glaucescent herb, probably attaining 2 or 3 ft. Leaves 

 5-7-foliolate, petiolate ; leaflets very narrow-linear. Racemes lax ; bracts 

 very narrow-linear, 3-foliolate or simple. Pedicels capiUar}-, at length about 

 1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Anther-bearing stamens 

 4 ; starainodia 4. Capsule naiTOw-linear, spreading or pendulous, about 3 

 in. long, shortly stipitate, glabrous, with longitudinal, anastomosing veins, 

 tapering into the slender style. Seeds globose-reniform, minutely pitted, 

 nearly or quite glabrous. — Dianthera abyssinica, Schweinf. Fl. .^thiop. 70 

 (ex. descr.). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Nearly allied to a Cape Cleome, the Tetrateleia macnlata of Sonder, Fl. Capensis, i. 58. 



14. C.diandra, Burck.Trav.i. 548. An erect,simple or branched, glabrous 

 or thinly glandular or minutely aculeolate, glaucescent or glaucous herb, some- 

 times woody below. Leaves 5-7-3-foliolate, with very narrow linear leaflets. 

 Racemes lax. Bracts 3-1-foliolate. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Two longer 

 petals obovate or oblanceolate, clawed. Anther-bearing stamens 2; staminodia 

 6-12. Ovary stipitate. Stigma capitate. Capsule narrow-linear, patent or 

 pendulous, glabrous, rather finely striate, 2-3 in. long, on stipes of about \ 

 in. Seeds pitted, shortly hairy. — Polanisiadiavthera, DC. Prod.i. 242. Di- 

 anthera Bvrchelliana and D. Peteisinna, Kl. in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 160. 



