Cleome.] ix. capparidace/e (oliveu). 81 



I (}o not perceive any specific difference between authentic specimens named by Klotzsch 

 as above. 



18. C. chilocaljTX, Oliv. An erect, slender, glabrous annual^ 1-2 ft. 

 high. Leaves 3-foliolate, chiefly from the lower part of the stem, on rather 

 long, slender petioles, usually exceeding the lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, minutely setose-serrulate, subsessile leaflets. Racemes 

 at length elongate, lax. Bracts minute, subulate. Pedicels very short, 

 patent, 1-3 lines long. Sepals linear-subulate, unequal. Petals linear- 

 spathulate, about ^ in. long in our specimens. Stamens 10-12. Capsules 

 spreading, narrow-linear, elongate, 3-4 in. long, glabrous, longitudinally 

 3 ^-nerved, on a gynophore of ^-f in. Seeds globose, reniform, transversely 

 rugose, with intermediate longitudinal striae. — Chilocalyx macrophyllus, Kl. 

 in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 155. 



Var. )8. tenuifolius {0. tenuifoHus, Kl. I.e.). Leaflets linear. 

 Mozaxnb. Distr. Zambesi and Shire, I)rs. Kirk and Meller ! Peters ! 



19. C. hirta^ Oliv. An erect, pilose-pubescent herb, 1-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves on rather long petioles, 7-5-foliolate, minutely hairy, scaberulous or 

 glabrescent ; leaflets narrow linear-lanceolate or linear, usually rather obtuse 

 or broadly pointed. Racemes more or less leafy, with simple or 5-3-foliolatc 

 bracts. Sepals Imear, acute, glandular. Petals nearly equal, purple and 

 white or blotched with yellow. Stamens 10-12, rarely fewer, the longer at 

 length much exserted. Capsule narrow-linear, sparsely setulose-pubescent 

 or glabrate, striate, about 2-3^ in. long, on a short gynophore. Seeds glo- 

 bose-reniform, transversely rugose. — Becastemon hirtus, Kl. in Peters' Mos- 

 samb. Bot. 157. 



Lower Guinea. Various provinces of Angola, in sandy and waste ground, Br. Wei- 

 toitsch ! 



South Central. Lat. 23° S., Chapman and Baines! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi and Maravi country, Dr. Kirk ! Zanzibar, lat. G'' S., 

 Speke and Grant ! 



20. C. Bororensis, Oliv. An erect, slightly pubescent or strigillose 

 herb of 2-4 ft. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets oblanceolate or oval, acute or 

 acuminate, narrowed below, minutely pubescent or thinly strigillose, equalling 

 or exceeding the petioles. Racemes bracteate ; bracts simple or 3-foliolate. 

 Pedicels spreading, about ^ in. Stamens 9-10 {^-^, Klotzsch). Capsule 

 3-4 in., narrow -linear, with forking striae, slightly hairy or glabrate, narrowed 

 into a slender style ; gynophore about \ in. Seeds nearly smooth and gla- 

 brous. — Anomalostejnon Boro7'ensis, Kl. in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 162. 



Mozamb. Distr. Boror, Zambesi, Br. Peters ! 



Cleome rc.mosissima, Parlatorc in Webb, Frag. R. ^thiop. 22, I have not satisfactorily 

 identified. It is described as tall, shrubby, much-branched, glandular-pilose. Leaflets 3, 

 .ovate-lanceolate. Bracts simple, linear-oblong, rather obtuse. Capsules sessile, linear- 

 oblong, glabrous. Immature seeds glabrous. 



Nile Iiand. Sennar and Kordofan. 



2. GYNANDROPSIS, DC. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. PI. i. 106. 

 Sepals 4, deciduous. Petals 4, unguiculate. Stamens about G, inserted 



