34 THALAMIFLORJE. 



II. CLEOME. 



Calycine sepals 4, patent, subequal. Petals 4. 

 Disk subhemispherical. Stamens 6, rarely 4. Silique 

 dehiscent sessile or stalked on the calyx. De Cand. 



Name, employed by a physician in the 4th century to desig- 

 nate a plant, which, like this, resembled mustard in its taste, 

 and grew in moist places. 



SECT. 1. Pedicellaria. 

 Disk fleshy, subglobose. Thecaphorum elongated. 



1. Cleome heptaphylla. Seven-leaved bastard Mus- 

 tard. 



Herbaceous prickly hirsuto-viscose, leaves 5-7-fo- 

 liate viscoso-pubescent, floral leaves sessile cordate, 

 siliqueviscoso-pubescent longer than the thecaphorum. 



Sloane, I. 194. Browne, 373. C. spinosa, Jacq. Amer. 190. 



HAB. Common in waste places. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



About 4 feet in height, fruticose towards the base, terete, 

 hirsute with hairs tipt with viscid glandules, prickly : prickles 

 stipulary, short, thick, sharp, subulate. Leaves 5 7-foliate, 

 pedate ; leaflets shortly petiolulated, lanceolate, attenuated at 

 both ends, hirsute along the midrib towards the base, otherwise 

 pubescent and ciliated with viscoso-capitate hairs, penni-nerved : 

 petiole terete, slightly channelled, occasionally prickly. Ra- 

 ceme terminal. Pedicels about an inch in length, terete, vis- 

 coso-hirsute, each furnished at the insertion with a small sessile 

 cordate viscoso-pubescent floral leaf. Sepals 4, sub-unequal, 

 lineari-lanceolate, viscoso-pubescent, spreading. Petals with 

 the limb oblongo-spathulate and white, and with the claw pur- 

 ple. Disk ovato-subglobose, unilateral: thecaphorum elongated, 

 filiform; upwards of an inch in length, purple, subglabrous, with 

 a few minute capitate hairs near the base. Filaments f ths of 

 an inch in length, distinct, capillary, purple : anthers linear. 

 Ovary linear, terete, densely and minutely glanduloso-puberu- 

 lous : style scarcely any : stigma subcapitate. Silique terete, 

 3-4-inches in length, viscoso-puberulous with capitate hairs : 

 seed numerous, small, reniform. 



This is a wild rank weed, common in waste places, having 

 neither beauty, nor any useful property to recommend it to our 

 notice. 



