CRUCIFERjE. 155 



Plate 66. 

 WAREA, Nutt. 



Siliqua longe stipitata, gracilis, compressa, valvis planius- 

 culis dorso uninerviis. Semina in loculis uniserialia. Coty- 

 ledones oblongEe, planas, oblique incumbentes, radicula ad 

 apicem saspe rimali. — Herba? annua?. Sepala erectiuscula. 

 Petala patentia, longe unguiculata, lamina dilatata, purpurea 

 seu alba. Racemi umbelliformes. 



Warea, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Pliilad. 7. p. 83. t. 10. Torr. & Gray, Fl. 



N. Am. 1. p. 98. Endl. Gen. 41117. 

 Cleomes Sp., Mulil. Cat. p. 64. 

 Stanley* Sp., Nutt. in Sill Jour 5. p. 297. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 200. 



Calyx equal, colored (purplish or greenish-white) ; the 

 sepals linear or spatulate, soon spreading. Petals un- 

 guiculate, the elongated claws exceeding the calyx, loosely 

 spreading, bearing a dilated cuneiform-spatulate or nearly 

 orbicular lamina, often with minutely erose-undulate mar- 

 gins, in aestivation either convolute, or with one petal entire- 

 ly external. Stamens rather slightly tetradynamous : fila- 

 ments almost capillary, much exserted : anthers linear- 

 oblong, spirally revolute when dry. Glands of the dilated 

 torus 4, conspicuous in pairs in front of the shorter stamens. 

 Ovary oblong-linear, two-celled, raised above the torus on a 

 filiform stipe (gynophore) which is usually longer than the 

 ovary : stigma sessile, emarginate. Ovules numerous, in a 

 single row in each cell. 



Silio_ue narrowly linear, conspicuously stipitate, falcate- 

 curved, compressed parallel with the partition, two-celled ; 

 the flattish valves one-nerved in the middle and minutely 

 veiny; the delicate partition nerveless, composed of slender 

 longitudinal areolae of various outline, many of them bound- 

 ed by sinuous lines. Seeds very numerous, pendulous on 

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