118 MANN, 



1. GYNANDROPSIS DC. 



Sepals 4. Petals 4, clawed. Torus depressed hemispherical, the 

 petals inserted around its base, the long gynophore springing from its 

 centre. Stamens 6; the filaments monadelphous, adnate to the very 

 long gynophore for half its length or more, then free and distinct, fili- 

 form, nearly equal : anthers oblong or linear, fixed near the base, in- 

 trorse, the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled, with 

 2 parietal placentae : stigma nearly sessile, obtuse. Ovules numerous 

 and usually in two series on each placenta, horizontal, amphitropous. 

 Capsule pod-like, long -stalked 1-celled, 2 valved. Seeds many, 

 round-reniform, exalbuihinous. Embryo conformed to the seed ; coty- 

 ledons short, incumbently incurved ; radicle superior. Viscid glandu- 

 lar herbs, with alternate and palmately 3-7-foliolate leaves, and white 

 or purplish flowers in a leafy raceme. 



A small genus, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



1. G. PENTAPHYLLA DC. Annual, 1 or more high, covered with 

 long and short, and mostly clammy hairs ; lower and middle leaves 

 5-foliolate, petioled, upper 3-foliolate, much smaller, nearly sessile ; 

 leaflets obovate, nearly entire ; pods linear, often curved, 2' or more 

 long, glandularly rough, tipped with a short style and broad stigma. 

 Seeds reniform, rough with little pustules. 



Introduced and becoming naturalized around Honolulu. Common in most warm and 

 tropical countries. 



2. C LEO ME Linn. 



Sepals 4, persistent or deciduous. Petals 4, sessile or clawed, de- 

 ciduous. Stamens 6, on a short, subglobose torus, free and distinct; 

 filaments equal, filiform, longer than the petals ; anthers 2-celled, 

 opening introrsely and longitudinally. Capsule (often) stipitate, like 

 that of Gynandropsis, as are the seeds, &c. Herbs, rarely suffruti- 

 cose, with alternate palmately 3-7-foliolate, or rarely simple, leaves, 

 without stipules. The yellow, purple or white flowers in terminal leafy 

 racemes ; the upper bracts simple. 



A considerable genus, in tropical and warm regions, especially in America, Egypt and 

 Arabia. 



1. C. SANDWICENSIS Gray. (Enum. No. 8.) Herbaceous, viscid 

 pubescent ; stem, petioles and midrib of the leaflets sparsely aculeate 

 with small and weak prickles : the stipularones stronger. Stem leaves 

 of 5 oblong-lanceolate leaflets, l'-2i|' inches long, and cinereous on both 

 sides with a short and close viscid pubescence. Floral leaves ovate, slight- 

 ly cordate, on short petioles, shorter than the very pubescent and some- 

 what setose hispid viscous pedicels. Calyx hairy and viscous like the 

 pedicels. Petals white or yellowish, 3" long, oblong-ovate, on short 



