Cleome 



CAPPARIDACEiE 



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1. C. spinosa Jacq. Enum. PI. Carih. 26 (1760) ; pubescent, 

 often glandular ; stipular prickles two at base of petiole, deciduous 

 prickles sometimes on petiole ; leaflets 7 or 5 (or 3 in the highest 

 and lowest) ; bracts broadly ovate to roundish, subcordate, sessile 

 or subsessile ; stigma sessile even in the fruit, scarcely dilated ; 

 capsule longer than (sometimes twice as long as) the gynophore, 

 which is generally longer than (sometimes twice as long as) the 

 pedicel— Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 190; L. Sjp. PI. ed. 2, 939; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1640; Eichl. in Fl. Bras, xiii.pt. 1, 252 (forms pungens 



Fig. 93.— Cleome spinosa Jacq. 



A, Portion of flowering branch X J. 



B, Flower cut lengthwise, slightly 



enlarged. 



C, Seed x 5. 



D, Seed cut lengthwise x 5 ; c, coty- 



ledons ; r, radicle. (Alter Baillon.) 



and spinosa); Sprague in Gard. Chron. 1909, pt. 1, 114; Urb. 

 Symb. Ant. iv. 251. C. heptaphylla L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 937 (1763) 

 (so far as concerns reference to Mill. Diet.) ; Sw. Obs. Bot. 252. 

 C. Erucago Mill. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) (specimen from Houstoun in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit.). C. pungens Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 689 

 (1809) & Hort. Berol. 18, t. 18; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 15. 

 Sinapistrum ^gyptium heptaphyllum &c. Sloane Cat. 80 & Hist, 

 i. 194. C. assurgens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 273. (Fig- 93.) 

 Specimen from Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



St. Jago de la "Vega, Sloane ; Houstoun ! Kingston, Broughton ! 

 St. Mary, Purdie 1 Prior 1 King's House Grounds, J.P. 1349, Morris 1 

 Annette Bay, Thompson 1 Kingston ; Port Antonio ; Lucea ; Hitchcock ; 



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