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come off from the receptacle in a single circular piece. In Bushia 1 

 the fruit is large and vesicular. In Isomeris 2 it is also very large, 

 but with thicker and more rigid walls, and the calyx is gam-o-sepal- 

 ous, and the receptacle is short and thick dilated above. In the 

 American Cristatella* the flowers have from six to twelve stamens, 

 and unequal finely incised dentate petals. 



Generally speaking, all the above sections of Cleome have a siliqui- 

 form fruit, whose length greatly exceeds its breadth. In Cleomella* 

 also American, the capsule becomes short and few- seeded, lozenge- 

 shaped or trapezoidal, with reticulate deltoid more or less sacciform 

 valves. The other characters are those of the hexandrous Cleomes. 



The same is the case with the fruit of several small-flowered 

 Brazilian species, of which the genus Bactyland" has been made ; but 

 its androceum is reduced to the utmost, for out of from four to six 

 stamens, the anterior alone has an anther, and is much more 

 developed than the rest. 



In several undoubted members of the genus Cleome the stamens are 

 inserted, not close against the petals, but a little higher up, owing 

 to the elongation of the receptacle between the two whorls into a 

 short vertical column. Hence we shall not make Gyn an drops is, 6 con- 

 sidered by many authors a distinct species, anything more than a 

 section of Cleome. C. penltiphi/lla (fig. 173) and the seven or eight 

 allied species 7 taken as the type of this group, are in fact only distin- 

 guished by a greater elongation of this column, which may become 

 very long and slender. These species have usually six stamens, and 



1 Bunge, Del. Son. Hort. Dorpat. (1859), 4 

 (ex Linncea, xxx. 752). 



2 Nutt., in Torr. Sf Or. Fl. K.-Amer., i. 

 124.— Endl., Gen., n. 4990.— B. H., Gen., 1C6, 

 968, n. 5.— Toer., Mex. Sf Unit -States Bound. 

 Surv., Bot., t. A— Bot. Mag., t. 3842.— W a lp., 

 Rtp., i. 196. — (One Californian species.) 



* Nutt., in Journ. Acad. Philad., vii. 85, t. 

 11.— Torr. & Gh., Fl. N.-Amer., i. 123.— A. 

 Ghat, Gen. III., t. 77.— B. H., Gen., 105, n. 4 — 

 Cyrbashim Endl., Gen., n. 4989. — (One species 

 from North-west America : Walp., Rep., i. 

 196.) 



4 DC, Prodr., i. 237.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 4983.— A. Gray, Gen. III., t. 75.— B. H., Gen. 

 105, n. 3. — (Four North American species, 

 Torr., in Ann. Lye. N.-Yorlc,\\. 157; — Don, 

 in Edlnb. New Phil. Journ., x. 113 ; Torr. 



& Gr., FL N.-Am., i. 120 ;— Walp., Sep., i. 

 193 ; Ann., i. 59 ; ii. 57 ; iv. 223.) 



5 Schrad., Hort. Goelt. ined, (ex Endl., 

 Gen., n. 4986).— KCEM. & Sch., Syst., vii. 9. — 

 B. H., Gen,, 105, 968, n. 1. — Eichl., in Mart, 

 Fl. Bras., Cappar., 242, t. 54. 



6 DC., Prodr., i. 237.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Bvffon, vi. 313.— Endl., Gen., n. 4984. — A. 

 Gray, Gen. III., t. 68.— B. H., Gen., 106, 968, 

 i;. 7. — Gymnogonia R. Bk., in Denh. fy Clapp. 

 Narr,, 222. — Fodogyne Hoffmsg., Verz.,186. — 

 Buperia F. Muell., in Hook. Journ., ix. 15 

 (nee J.). 



7 Bf.nth., Fl. Austral., i. 91. — Eichl., in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras., Cappar., 261, t. 58.— Boiss., 

 Fl. Or., i. 410.— Bot. Meg., t. 1681.— Walp., 

 Rep., i. 193; ii. 764; v. 52; Ann., i. 59; iv. 

 223; vii. 186. 



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