Cleomellu. CAri'AKIhACK.E. Ig.j 



small: filaments ox serted : style distiuct: stipe in fruit half or three fmirilis incli lonj;. vcrv 

 slender, usually loii<.'tr than the pedicel: valves of the capsule oldiijnelv conical. —Turr. ii. 

 Hook. Jour. Hot. & Kew Misc. ii. 2:,5, & in Gray, PI. Wri^lit. i. 11 ; Wats. Bot. Kin^ l..\p. 

 33; Brew. & Wp.tb. Hot. Calif, i. 52, the var. tjiandi flora every way larger than the ori;;iiial 

 Mexican s]ieciuieu8, hut fully connected. — VV. Te.xiw to Nevada and a<ijacent Ixirder of 

 California and Arizona, Writjkl, Anderson, Watson, &c. (North Mexico, Berlandier, Greyg.) 

 -I- H— Leaflets aud sinijile hracts linear or tho wider linear-lanceolate. 

 •H- Stamens more or less prominently exsorted : stipe of capHule elongated. 

 C. angUStifolia, Toru. Erect, a foot or two high, with ratlnrr dense flowering raremes : 

 kvTtlcts niiLStly inch and a half long, 2 to 4 lines wide, acutely or acuminatclv mucronate : 

 petals over 2 lines long: style hardly any: stipe shorter tliau the slender pedicel, longer 

 than the rhomhoidal capsule, the valves of which are ohtusely conic;il or helmet -^llalK•.l, 

 sometimes in age more extended and horn-shaped : seeds tapering at hiisc, rugnlose at 

 maturity. — Torr. 1. c. 12, & Bot. Mex. liound. 35; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 404, 

 & Troc. Acad. I'hilad. I8G3, 58, as C. tenulfolla. C. Afexicawi, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 

 167 ; Hook. Ic. t. 28 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 121 ; Gray, (Jen. 111. i. t. 75 ; not DC. — I'lains 

 of Arkansas or Kansas and Texas ; first coll. hy James. 



C. plocasperma, Watson. Diffuse, a span or two high, with rather open racemes : leaf- 

 lets and l)racts (juarter to half inch long, obtu.se, barely mucronulate : petals hardly 2 lines 

 long: style conspicuous : stipe and pedicel each about a quarter inch long, twice or thrice 

 the lengtli of the broadly rhomboid capsule, the valves of which are helmet-shaped : seeds 

 tapering at base, smooth or nearly so. — Bot. King Exp. 33 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 52. 

 — Saline soil, Nevada, Walson, Biirrjt'ss, Brandegee. 



C. OOCarpa, Gkay. Erect, often diffusely branched, a span to a foot high : leaflets linear, 

 obtuse, inch or less long: bracts similar but smaller and setaccou.s-inucronate: petals 3 lines 

 long: style conspicuous: stipe aud pedicel of about equal length ((juarter to half inch): 

 capsule small, not over 2 lines long, ovate, only obscurely rhomhoidal, tlie valves only 

 moderately navicular: seeds smooth and shining, of broadly obovate <iutline, not produced 

 at base. — Proe. Am. Acad. xi. 72; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 52. — Saline plains of 

 S. W. Colorado and Nevada, and on the Mohave Desert in California, Brandegee, Torreg, 

 Parish, &c. 



++ ++ Stamens not longer than the barely line long petals : stipe short. (Perhaps deistog- 

 amoHs.) 



C. parviflora, Gray. Slender, a span to a foot high, at length diffuse : leaflets and bracts 

 narrowly linear, the larger inch long : racemes loose : pedicels filiform, half inch to inch long 

 in fruit : style very short or obsolete : capsule obovate, barely 2 lines long ; valves gild>ons- 

 navicular: seeds smooth, not attenuate at base. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 520; Wats. 1. c. — 

 Mohave Desert, California (first coll. by Cooper), to N. W. Nevada, where first coll. by 

 Anderson. 



# * Smooth and glabrous : no stipules : flowers very small, short -pcdicelled in the axils of 

 nearly all the subsessile leaves : very short capsule deflexed. 



C. brevipes, Watson. A span or two higli, diffusely branched and flowering from the 

 base : leaves thickish, at most half inch long, mainly 3-foliolate and the subsessile leafleLt 

 linear-spatulate, but the upper of similar simple leaves: flowers barely a line long, on 

 pedicels of hardly greater length: petals roundish, apparently whitish : stjimens minute ; 

 style very short: capsule a line or two long, on a stipe not longer than the minute cjilyx. 

 globose-ovate, 2-4se('(k'd, |)endulous by the recurvation either of the minute stijie or of tlic 

 pedicel. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 365. — Mohave Desert, S. K.California, at Caiii]. i-Miy 

 (where also is found the precciling), Parish.^ 



* * * Pubescent or hirsute : tufts of deciduous bristles for .stipules: .<lender-.stipilato cap- 

 sule deflexed. 



1 Sub.sequently collected near Kecler, Inyo Co., Calif., by Covillt k Fumton (.sec Coiitrib. V. S. 

 Nat. Herb. iv. G7), wliose sp<'cinn'iis show the caiisule to be broadly dolfoiil in outline, 1 } lines |on>; 

 hy '2i lines in l»readtli. The species has also been reported from Newberry Sta., I'alif. (see JSoo 

 iv. 414). 



