CAPPARIDE^E 



Nos. 8-14. With one rather long terminal leaflet. 

 The rest are bracts bearing flowers in their axils. 



181 



Cleome spinosa, L. (fig. 181). 



Primary root with numerous strong lateral rootlets. 

 Hypocotyl erect, terete, glandular-pubescent near the top, other- 

 wise glabrous, striated longitudinally, and marked with two lines 

 of crystalline elevations running down from the edges of the 

 cotyledonary petioles, 

 deep dull red, 8-15 mm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons often, if 

 not always, unequal, 

 oblong or more often 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 entire, with a few alter- 

 nate, ascending or sub- 

 incurved nerves, dull 

 green above, paler 

 beneath, petiolate ; la- 

 mina glabrous, 8-12 

 mm. long, 8-6 mm. 

 wide ; petioles semi- 

 terete, slightly chan- 

 nelled above, densely 

 glandular - pubescent, 

 each 3-5-5 mm. long. 

 Average length of 

 3 laminag, 10-3 mm. and 

 9-3 mm. in the longer 

 and shorter cotyledons 

 respectively. 



Stem glandular- 

 hairy ; 1st internode 

 hardly developed, or 

 5-1 mm. long. 



Leaves ternately pinnate, alternate (first two opposite), gland- 

 ular-pubescent on both surfaces, and rather strongly ciliate at the 

 margin, alternately and ascendingly penninerved ; petioles semi- 

 terete, channelled above, densely glandular-pubescent. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite, pinnately ternate ; leaflets petiolulate ; 

 terminal one largest, elliptic, obtuse or subacute, slightly undulate 

 at the margin or flat ; lateral leaflets similar but much smaller. 



FIG. 181. Cleome spinosa, x 2. 



