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purple in colour, weak and spreading, clawed, that 

 is, with a distinct blade and stalk. Stamens six raised 

 upon a central axis, filaments pink and very con- 

 spicuous. Ovary also stalked, on a continuation of 

 the staminal stalk, one celled with very short style ; 

 stigma nearly sessile, bilobed ; ovules many on two 

 parietal placentas. Fruit a narrow capsule, with 

 many kidney-shaped black seeds. Embryo, in the 

 seed, bent. 



Another species of the same genus which grows 

 wild in most places, is G. PENTAPHYLLA, B.C. The 

 leaflets are five not seven, and the racemes the pedi- 

 cels, etc. are slightly sticky. 



CLEOME is another genus, very like GYNANDROPSIS, 

 but the stamens are sessile in the flower, not raised 

 together on a stalk above the sepals and petals. 



CLEOME VISCOSA, L., is very common by roadsides. 

 The whole plant is very sticky, being covered with 

 glandular hairs. The leaves are digitate with three 

 five leaflets, the flowers about J inch long and yellow 

 in colour. 



C. ASPERA, Koen., grows in sandy places. It is 

 covered over with minute prickles (whence the name 

 aspera meaning rough). The leaves have three leaflets, 

 each J to | inch long. The flowers are | inch long, 

 yellow. 



CAPPARIS SEPIARIA, L., a straggling shrub, with 

 thin wiry branches, found growing everywhere in dry 

 hot places all over India. The branches are covered 

 with a greyish pubescence, and armed with curved 

 thorns in pairs at the base of each petiole (and therefore 

 to be considered as modified stipules, cf. ZIZYPHUS in 



