184 CAPPAiyDACE^. Cleome. 



C. llitea, IlooK. Glabrons, a span to 2 feet high : leaves 3-7-foliolate : leaflets from linear- 

 lauceulate to oblong, entire: hi-acts simple, mostly slender-nimTouate : raceme iu flower 

 dense : petals goUleu yellow : aj)pendage to torus a short and thirk gland : stipe shorter 

 thau or about the length of the pedicel, equalling or shorter thau the oblong to nearly linear 

 (half inch to inch and a half long) cajisule : seeds 6 to 20, smooth or in age tuberculate. — 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 70, t. 25; Lindl. Bot. Keg. xxvii. t. 67 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 51. 

 C. lutea & C. uurea (Nutt.), Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 122; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 32. Peritoma 

 aurca, Kutt. Jour. Acad, Philad. vii. 15. — Along streams, N. Wyoming and Idaho to 

 Oregon and W. Nevada, south to Colorado; i first coll. by Douglas. 

 -t— -»— Sepals distinct to base, deciduous. 



C. platycarpa, Torr. A foot or two higii, villous-pubesceut and somewhat viscid : leaves 

 long-petioled : leaflets 3, petiolulate, oval and oblong : bracts simple : raceme in flower 

 dense : petals golden yellow : ovary iu some flowers abortive : sepals slender-subulate : gland 

 of torus obsolete : style short and slender: stipe equalling or shorter than the turgid oval 

 8-12-seeded capsule. — Bot. Wilkes Exped. 235, t. 2; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 51. 

 — Alkaline soil, Oregon to N. California and W. Nevada; first coll. by Pickering & 

 Brackenridge. 



C. sparsifolia, Watson. Glabrons, a span or two high, diffusely branched: leaves 

 minutely stipulate, 3-foliolate or upper simple (in origirial specimens small and scanty, in 

 better ones slender-petioled) : leaflets rather fleshy, spatulate or oblong-linear, 3 to 5 lines 

 long : flowers few and sparse in tiie raceme, with linear petiolate bracts, short-pedicelled : 

 sepals ovate : petals 3 or 4 lines long, yellow with tinge of green, spatnlate, at length narrow 

 and undulate, appendaged at base withih by an adnate broad and iuflexed nectariferous 

 scale: stamens not longer than the petals: torus globular, with truncate summit obtusely 

 4-toothed outside the stamens and no gland within : stipe barely 2 lines long : capsule linear, 

 three fourths to one and one half inches long, S-lO-seeded. — Bot. King Exp. 32, t. 5.'^ — 

 W. Nevada, in the Carson Desert, Wulson. In sand at Rhodes, with good flowers and 

 foliage, Shocklej).^ 



C. Sonorae, Gray. Glabrous, erect, a foot or two high: leaves short-petioled and upper 

 almost ses.sile ; leaflet* 3, very narrowly linear as also the simple similar bracts : raceme 

 loose : petals white and rose-color, spatulate, 2 lines long.: capsule cylindraceous, torulose, 

 6-8-seeded, pendulous on a usually shorter stipe from the much longer and spreading filiform 

 pedicel: seeds smooth. — PI. Wright, ii. 16; .Rothrock in Wheeler, Rep. vi. 67. — Saline 

 soil, S. Arizona, Wright, Thurber. S. W. Colorado in San Luis ^■alley, Rothrock. 



5. CL.E0M£1LLA, DC. (Diminutive of Cleome.) — South-central N. 

 American and a^acent Mexican annuals, with trifoliolate leaves but sometimes 

 simple bracts, small yellow flowers, and more or less stipitate odd-shaped capsules. 

 Leaves except in one species petiolate and leaflets short-petiolulate. — Prodr. i. 

 237 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 173, t. 75 ; Torr. in Gray, PI. Wright, i. IL 



* Smooth and glabrous ; no stipules : flowers racemose : capsules porrect on conspicuous 



pedicel and stipe. 

 -}— Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse or retuse, barely mucronulate : seeds smooth, not 



tapering at base. 

 C. MexicAna, DC 1. c, Moij-ino & Sesse', Ic. (Calque.s, t. 19 & xxxi), of Mexico, is low and 

 diffuse ; with small leaves, those subtending the flowers similar to the lower and little shorter 

 than the pedicels; and stipe shorter tliau the very oblate capsule, the divaricate valves at 

 maturity oblong-conical. 



C. longipes, Tour. Erect, a foot or two high, rather robust, with naked and ample 

 racemes : leaflets oljloug or spatulate-obovate, inch or less long : bracts mostly simple and 



1 A fragmentary and dubious ."rpecinieu conies from Nebraska, Wilcox; species also rei)orted fi-om 

 N. Arizona, by M. E. Jones, Zee, ii. 2.36. 



2 Add Jones, Bull. Torr. Clnh, x. 33. 



8 Also collected liy Coville & Funston about Keeler, Calif., where it is said to be abimdant ; see 

 Coville, Contri!'. '' ^ v ,t }|^,b. iv. 66- 



