156 CAPPARIDACEAE. [Vol.. II. 



3. Cleome lutea Hook. Yellow Cleome. (Fig. 1793.) 



Cleome lutea Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 70. 

 pi. 25. 1830. 



Erect, glabrous, branching, i_j- 

 3}4 high- Leaves 5-foliolate, slender- 

 petioled, or the upper 3-foliolate and 

 nearly sessile; leaflets oblong or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, entire, short-stalked 

 or sessile, narrowed at the base, ob- 

 tuse or acute and mucronulate at the 

 apex, j / -2 / long; racemes elongating 

 in fruit; bracts linear-oblong, mucro- 

 nate; pedicels slender, 5 // -6 // long; 

 flowers densely racemose, yellow; 

 petals obovate or oblanceolate, about 

 5" long; pod linear, 1%'-$' long, 

 acute, borne on a stipe becoming longer 

 than the pedicel. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Washington 

 and Arizona. June-Sept. 



2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 85. pi. 9. 1834. 



Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with digitately 3-foliolate leaves, and small 

 white or yellowish flowers in terminal bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, slightly united 

 at the base. Petals 4, laciniate or fimbriate at the summit, borne on long slender claws, the 

 2 lower smaller than the 2 upper. Receptacle short, with a short petaloid nectary between 

 the ovary and the upper sepal. Stamens 6-14; filaments slender, declined. Ovary stalked, 

 alsodeclined. Capsule linear, nearly terete, many-seeded. [ Diminutive of cristatus, crested.] 



A genus of a species natives of the south-central United States. 



x. Cristatella Jamesii T. &G. James' 

 Cristatella. (Fig. 1794.) 



Cristatella Jamesii T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 124. 1838. 



Erect, slender, branching, 6'-is' high. Leaves 

 slender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear 

 or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire, 

 obtuse, 4 // -i2 // long; flowers slender-pedicclled, 

 whitish or yellowish; bracts mostly 3-foliolate; 

 claws of the larger petals i# // -2 / j // long; 

 sepals acute or obtusish; pod ascending, much 

 longer than its stipe and somewhat longer than 

 the pedicel. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Louisiana and Texas. 

 June-Dec. 



3. CLEOMELLA DC. Prodr. i: 237. 1824. 



Annual glabrous branching erect or diffuse herbs, with small yellow flowers and 3-folio- 

 late leaves. Calyx of 4 sepals. Petals 4, sessile, not clawed. Receptacle short, glandlcss. 

 Stamens 6, inserted on the receptacle. Ovary short, long-stalked. Capsule short, rhomboid 

 or trapezoid, often broader than long, 4-io-seeded. [Diminutive of Cteome.] 



A genus of about 8 species, natives of southwestern North America, extending into Mexico. 



