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CLEOME. : 
1 JACKSONIA Raf. Med. Repos. vy, 352. 
POLANISIA Raf. Journ. de Phys. 98. (1819). 
Annual, ill-scented and mostly glandular herbs, with simple or 
3-9 foliolate petioled leaves, and yellowish, rose-color or white 
flowers in leafy-bracted racemes. Sepals 4 deciduous, lanceolate, 
sometimes connate at base. Petals on claws or sessile, equal or 
unequal, torus small depressed. Stamens 8-32 inserted below 
_ the torus. Pods erect on spreading pedicels, membranaceous, 
_ very shortly stipitate, elongated, compressed or cylindrical, many- 
seeded, dehiscent from the top downward. Seeds round-reniform; 
_.rugose or reticulated. 
Bad trachysperma Greene Pitt. ii, 175. Glandular-pubescent, erect 6- 
_ 24inches high: leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets lanceolate 14-2 inches long, 
acute, about equalling the petioles, nearly sessile: floral bracts mostly 
simple, ovate to lanceolate, shortly petioled petals 3-5 lines long, 
- with slender claws as long as the sepals, and an emarginate blade: 
stamens 12-19, filaments exserted: style 2-3 lines long: pods 1-24 inches 
long, very rarely ona short slender stipe: seeds finely pitted and often 
warty. Oregon and Idaho to Brit. Columbia, Kansas and southward to New 
Mexico and Texas. 
2 CLEOME L. Syst. Nat. ed. 1. 
Erect branching annuals; with palmately 3-8  foliolate 
‘leaves and yellow or purple flowers, in bracteate racemes. Sepals 
_ 4, sometimes united at base. Petals with claws or sessile. Sta- 
_ mens 6, upon the small torus. Pods linear to oblong, stipitate, 
many-seeded: style short or none. Pods pendant on spreading 
pedicels, dehiscent from the base upward. Seeds globose-reni- 
form to ovate. Ours all of 
§ EvcLEoME Gray Syn. Fl. i, 183. Torus little or not at all 
columnar below the stamens, but commonly thickened, and bear- 
ing a glandular projection behind the ovary: this in all our spe- 
cies raised on a slender stipe or carpophore. Cleowe Endl. 
-* Calyx 4-cleft, tardily deciduous, petals indistinctly if at all 
-. unguiculate. 
C. serrulata Pursh. Fl. ii, 441. C. integrifolia T. & G. Fl. i, 122. 
Somewhat glaucous, 2-3 feet high, widely branching; leaves 3-foliolate; leaf- 
lets oblong to lanceolate, or the uppermost linear, entire, submucrunate: ra- 
cemes sometimes nearly a foot long: flowers large, showy, reddish-purple, 
rarely white: sepals united to the middle, persistent; segments triangular- 
acuminate: petals with very short claws, stamens equal: pods oblong-lin- 
ear, compressed, much longer than the stipe. On watercourses, from the 
Columbia river to Colorado, New Mexico and Dakota. 
C. lutea Hook. Fl. i, 70, t. 25. Glabrous or slightly pubescent; 1-3 
feet high: leaves 5-foliolate: leaflets linear to oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 inches 
long acute, short-petiolulate. equalling the petioles; flowers bright yellow: 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; petals broadly lanceolate, very 
short clawed, 3-4 lines long: pod 9-15 lines long, about 2 lines broad, 
torulose, equalling or longer than the stipe. On sandy banks along the 
- Columbia river, and from Wyoming to Colorado and Nevada. 
* * ‘Sepals distinct to the base,’ deciduous. Petals not: distinctly 
unguiculate. 
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