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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL ; 



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elegant, but fetid plant, upright, either wholly smooth, or 

 with a few hairs at bottom : the stem is round and branching, 

 two feet high, of a dusky red colour ; the germen is placed 

 on a long, slender, purple pedicel, round which are six sta- 

 mina, of the same colour, and equal. It flowers in June and 

 July ; and is a native of both Indies, &c. 



4. Cleome Triphylla ; Three-leaved Cleome. Flowers gy- 

 nandrous ; leaves ternate ; stem unarmed. An annual plant, 

 rising two feet high, sending out many side'branches, with 

 leaves having one large spear-shaped lobe in the middle, and 

 two very small ones on the sidej these sit close to the 

 branches : the flowers come out singly from the sides of the 

 branches, upon long peduncles j they have four large flesh- 

 coloured petals, and six stamina, which stand out beyond the 

 petals. Native of Jamaica. 



5. Cleome Juncea ; Rushy Cleome. Leafless; flowers gy- 

 nandrous, eight-stamined ; corymbs lateral ; genitals elon- 

 gated ; silique linear, tomentose ; stem shrubby. The stem is 

 from a foot to two feet in height, hardly the thickness of a 

 goose-quill ; branches rigid, like spines, commonly ending 

 sharply, greenish, round, spreading, smoothish ; flowers dirty 

 yellow. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



6. Cleome Polygama. Upper flowers four-stamined, male : 

 leaves ternate ; leaflets sessile, somewhat prickly on the 

 edge. Stem erect, somewhat glossy, and a little branched. 

 It seldom rises above twenty or twenty-five inches. Native 

 of moist bottoms in Jamaica. 



7. Cleome Chelidonii. Flowers many stamined ; leaflets 

 in fives or sevens, wedge-form, rugged ; racemes terminat- 

 ing ; siliques filiform. Leaves on long petioles, digitate ; 

 leaflets acute; corolla red; petals five; stamina yellow ; 

 seeds hispid. Found in the East Indies. 



8. Cleome Felina : Cats-tongue Cleome. Flowers many- 

 stamined, axillary, solitary, peduncled; leaves ternate, wedge- 

 form, strigose ; siliques linear, compressed. The whole herb, 

 together with the calix, is strigose ; corolla angular, small, 

 red ; siliques short, smooth. Found by Koenig in Ceylon. 

 The leaves are singular, being hispid ; the hairs very much 

 dilated at the base, very stiff, pressed close to the Jeaves, 

 pointing towards the extremity, so as exactly to resemble a 

 cat's tongue. Found in Ceylon by Kcenig. 



9. Cleone Icosandra. Flowers icosi-tetrandrous ; leaves 

 quinate. Stem herbaceous, annual, two feet high, erect, 

 round, unarmed, striated, viscid, hairy ; branches ascending ; 

 petiole long. Native of the East Indies, and Cochin-china. 



10. Cleome Viscosa ; Viscous Cleome. Flowers twelve- 

 stamined ; leaves quinate and ternate. Stem erect, two feet 

 high, simple, round, striated, villose,viscid, (often red) leaves 

 alternate, on long petioles ; leaflets unequal, subrhomboid, 

 quite entire, nerved underneath ; flowers axillary and solitary 

 along the branches, with a terminal raceme ; petals yellow, 

 lanceolate-ovate, from erect spreading, and sometimes revo- 

 lute, equal, two more distant than the others ; stamina eight 

 or nine to thirteen, from the receptacle, not from the germen, 

 unequal; silique about two inches long, very villose, terminat- 

 ed by a stigma on a short style. Annual : native of Ceylon. 



11. Cleome Dodecandra ; Twelve-stamined Cleome. Flowers 

 twelve-stamined; leaves ternate. Stem and siliques viscid, 

 pubescent ; petals white, emarginate ; stamina ten to four- 

 teen ; siliques sessile, erect, fusiform, somewhat inflated. 

 Annual : native of both Indies. 



12. Cleome Gigantea; Gigantic Cleome. Flowers six- 

 stamined ; leaves in sevens ; stem unarmed. The stem is two 

 and even four yards in height, round, pubescent, erect, ever- 

 green. Branches few, irregular with scars ; petioles longer 

 than the leaves; flowers greenish; racemes terminating,erect, 



stiff, two feet in length ; pedicels remote, standing out, glu- 

 tinous, longer than the flower, without bractes. This beau- 

 tiful plant has a very burning taste and stinking .smell. 

 Native of South America. 



13. Cleome Aculeata ; Prickley Cleome. Flowers six- 

 stamined ; leaves ternate, quite entire; stipules spini-scenc. 

 Stem herbaceous ; stipules in .pairs, very short, recurved ; 

 flowers solitary, peduncled, small ; silique cylindrical, beset 

 with fine white hairs. Observed by Zosga in America. 



14. Cleome Spinosa: Thorny Cleome. Flowers six-sta- 

 mined ; leaves in sevens and fives ; stem thorny ; siliques pe- 

 duncled. Root annual ; stems five or six feet high, erect, 

 villose, branched ; flowers large, white, on solitary one- 

 flowered peduncles, longer than the bractes ; leaflets of the 

 calix lanceolate, linear, concave; petals oblong, entire, with 

 elongated claws, and a roundish gland at the base of each ; 

 filamenta six, unequally inserted into the receptacle, almost 

 of the same length, spreading, filiform, three times the length 

 of the corolla, purple ; antherae erect, long, two-celled, yel- 

 low ; germen pedicelled, round, curved ; style none; seeds 

 oblong. Native of the West Indies. 



15. Cleome Serrata; Serrate-leaved Cleome. Flowers six- 

 stamined ; leaves ternate ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, serrate. 

 An annual upright plant, two feet in height ; racemes loose, 

 simple, terminating ; corolla white ; stamina ti'tradynamous; 

 silique cylindrical, three inches long. Native of the moist 

 woods of Carthagena in South America. 



16. Cleome Ornithopodioides ; Bird' 8-foot Cleome. Flowers 

 six-stamined ; leaves ternate, leaflets oval-lanceolate. Stem 

 round, straight, from a foot to two feet in height, pale green, 

 with short, stiffish, rough hairs ; leaves strong-smelling, on a 

 rough petiole half an inch in length ; leaflets commonly bent 

 back, of a pale glaucous hue on both sides, smooth in appear- 

 ance, but roughish to the touch, having numerous short hairs 

 along the edge, scarcely perceptible, except in the younger 

 4eaves : from the upper axils come out singly small yellow 

 flowers, on slender peduncles, spreading horizontally; siliques 

 two inches long, slightly hirsute. Annual ; flowering in June 

 and July. Native of the Levant. 



17- Cleome Violacea ; Violet-coloured Cleome. Flowers 

 six-stamined ; leaves ternate and solitary ; leaflels lanceolate- ' 

 linear, quite entire. This is a viscid and pubescent plant ; 

 stem erect, sometimes crooked ; branches diffuse ; leaves on 

 long petioles ; leaflets nearly equal ; floral-leaves simple ; pe- 

 duncles even; calix yellow, with purplish tips; the two up- 

 per petals purple-violet, with yellow dots ; the two lateral 

 cordate, clawed, crenate, concolor. Annual ; flowers in 

 June and July. Native of Portugal. 



18. Cleome Arabica. Flowers six-stamined ; leaves ter- 

 nate, lanceolate, obtuse ; siliques fusiform, viscid, scabrous. 

 Root annual ; stem two feet high, viscid, rough with hairs; 

 branches diffuse ; floral-leaves simple; petals yellow, with 

 purple tips ; seeds hirsute. Native of Arabia. 



19. Cleome Monophylla. Flowers six-stamined; leaves 

 simple, ovate-lanceolate, petioled. Root annual ; stem eigh- 

 teen inches high, herbaceous, erect, striated, villose, branched 

 near the top ; flowers yellow, solitary, peduncled at the ex- 

 tremity of the branches. Native of the East Indies. 



20. Cleome Capensis. Flowers six-stamined ; leaves sim- 

 ple, sessile, linear- lanceolate; stem angular, simple, stiff, and 

 upright ; flowers yellow. Native of India and the Cape. 



21. Cleome Procumbens. Flowers six-stamined ; leaves 

 simple, lanceolate, petioled ; stems procumbent, herbaceous, 

 six inches high, suffrutescent, branched, smooth ; flowers 

 axillary, peduncled, solitary ; peduncles longer than the pe- 

 tioles, one-flowered, purple ; corolla yellow, turning to orange 



