Cleome CAPPAEIDACE.« 227 



below to sessile at apex, variable in size, 9-24 mm. 1. (in Jamaican 

 specimens) ; leaflets rhomboid-elliptical to lanceolate. Flowers white- 

 lilac, 5-7 mm. 1., buds purplish. Stamens 6. Capsule linear-cylindrical, 

 2*5-6 cm. 1. ; gynophore •5-1 cm. 1.] 



3. C. serpata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carih. 26 (1760) ; glabrous, 

 without prickles ; leaflets 3 (or 1 only near the base) ; capsule 

 sessile or with a very short gynophore, 4 or 5 times as long as 

 the pedicel— Jacg. Set. Stirp. Amer. 190, t. 180,/. 43. C. poly- 

 gama L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 939 (1763) ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; Eichl. torn, 

 cit. 257. Sinapistrum indicum triphyllum &c. Sloane Cat. 80 & 

 Hist. i. 194, t. 124,/. 1. Cleome erectum triphyllum &c. Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 273. Specimen from Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Type of C. polygama L. in Herb. Linn, from Browne. 



Banks of R. Cobre and Guanaboa, Sloane Herb, iii, 109 ! Browne 1 

 Wright 1 Bohins ! Masson ! Distin ! St. Mary ; Mammee Bay, St. Ann ; 

 Dawkins, St. Catherine ; McNab I Wilson ! Metcalfe 1 Port Antonio, 

 Hitchcock ; Hope Grounds, Fawcett ! Hope ; Bath ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 

 5478, 6623, 8300.— Cuba, S. Mexico, Panama. 



Herb 2 ft. high. Leaflets lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, acuminate, 

 minutely serrate, 3-12 cm. 1. Petioles 2-5 cm. 1. Racemes in fruit 

 1-3 dm. 1. Bracts minute, awl-shaped, deciduous. Flowers white or pale 

 rose, about 1 cm. 1. ; pedicels 1-2-1 -5 cm. 1. Petals, claw much shorter 

 than limb. Stamens 6, about as long as the petals. Ovary sessile. 

 Capsule 5-7 cm. 1., linear-cylindrical, sessile or very shortly stalked. 



4. C. proeumbens Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 189, f. 120 & Ed^ 

 pict. t. 181; leaves all simple, linear-lanceolate; capsule sessile 

 or with a very short gynophore, twice to three times as long as 

 the pedicel. — Sw. Ohs. Bot. 253 ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; Eichl. torn. cit. 

 259. C. Sloanei Urh. Symb. Ant. v. 347. Leucoium luteum &c. 

 Sloane Cat. 49 <fe Hist. i. 193, t. 123, /. 1. Specimen from 

 Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Spanish Town, Sloane Herb. iii. 107 1 Old Harbour, Broughton I 

 Masson ! Swartz ! Distin ; Liguanea Plain, McNab ! March I Hope 

 Grounds, Fawcett I near Black River, Harris ! Spanish Town, Harris <& 

 Britton 1 Fl. Jam. 8301, 9966, 10,518.— Cuba, Hispaniola (Jacquin I). 



Herbaceous plant, woody below, glabrous, without prickles, 4-12 in. 

 high. Root woody, perennial, 5-10 cm. 1. Branches procumbent, ascend- 

 ing, and erect. Leaves 1-2 cm. 1., shortly stalked. Flowers yellow, white, 

 or rosy, axillary on the branches above, about 5 mm. 1. Capsule linear- 

 cylindrical, apiculate with the persistent style (2-3 mm. 1.) 14-25 mm. 1. 



2. POLANISIA Rafin. 



Annual herbs. Leaves simple or 3-9-foliolate, the upper 

 bract-like. Sepals free or united at the base, deciduous. Petals 

 sessile or clawed, imbricate. Receptacle small. Stamens 8-30, 

 hypogynous, bent downward in bud. Capsules long, sessile or 

 stalked. 



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