118 MANN, 



1. GYWANDROPSIS 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 l-celled, 2-valved. Seeds many, 

 round-reniform, exalbuminous. 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. Auuual, 1° or morc high, covcrcd with 

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

 o-foliolate, petiolcd, 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. CLEOME 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 sufi"ruti- 

 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 stipular ones stronger. Stem leaves 

 of 5 oblong-lanceolate leaflets, 1'- 2h' 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 



