40 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Gynandropsis . 



1. Gynandropsis, DC. 



Annual leafy herbs. Leaves long-petioled, digitately 3-7-folio- 

 late. Floivers white or purple, in bracteate racemes. Petals 4, 

 spreading, long-clawed, open in bud. Stamens about 6, inserted 

 upon the long gynophore, spreading. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, 

 with 2 many-ovuled parietal placentas. Capsule and seeds as in 

 CLEOME. 



GYNANDROPSIS PENTAPHYLLA, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 171 ; W. & A. 21. 



A tall pubescent plant with pale purplish flowers *3-'6 in. 



across in glutinous corymbs which elongate into dense 



bracteate racemes. Capsules 2-4 in. long, nearly glabrous, 



striate. 



An annual weed, common in waste places in all Districts in 



the plains and at low elevations. 



2. Cleome, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-9-foliolate. Flowers 

 racemose or solitary and axillary, yellow rose or purple. Sepals 4, 

 spreading. Petals 4, ascending, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 

 620, inserted on the disk. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked ; style 

 short or ; ovules many on 2 parietal placentas. Capsule oblong 

 or linear, valves 2, deciduous and leaving the seeds attached to the 

 placentas. Seeds reniform. 



Whole plant viscous with stalked glands ; ovary densely glandular, 

 sessile ; capsule thinly glandular ; leaves 3-5-foliolate ; flowers yellow 



1. viscosa. 



Plants glabrous, pubescent or asperous but not viscous ; ovary and 

 capsule glabrous: 



Leaves simple, linear oblong ; stamens 6 ; flowers dull purple or pink 



2. monophylla, 

 Leaves 3-9-foliolate : 



Leaflets filiform ; capsule sessile ; stamens 6 ; flowers yellow ; plant 



glabrous 3. tenella. 



Leaflets linear-oblong to obovate : 

 Leaves 3-foliolate : 



Stem and leaves glabrous, not asperous ; stamens 6 ; flowers 



purple 4. Burm&nni. 



Stem and leaves asperous ; capsule glabrous : 



Stem and leaves entirely clothed with stiff appressed scale- 

 like hairs ; capsule 8 times as long as broad ; stamens about 

 30; flowers pink 5 . fellnn. 



