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.Plate 78. 

 GYNANDROPSIS, DC. 



Petala unguiculata, eestivatione imbricata vel (in Gymno- 

 gonia) aperta. Stamina 6, iilamentis ad medium usque gy- 

 nophori longissimi adnatis. Castera omnia Cleomes. 



Gynandropsis, DC. Prodr. 1. p. 237. Wight & Am. Prodr. FI. Ind. Or. 



1. p. 21. Deless. Ic. 3. t. 1. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 



121. Endl. Gen. 4984. 

 Cleomes Sp., Linn. etc. 

 Cleomes Sect. Gynandropsis & Gymnogonia, R. Br. in Denham & 



Clapp. Nan*. 



Calyx of 4 somewhat spreading sepals, deciduous. Pe- 

 tals 4, hypogynous, entire or minutely erose-crenulate, obo- 

 vate or roundish, on slender claws, nearly equal, imbricated 

 in aestivation, or else open from the first. Torus depressed- 

 hemispherical, the petals inserted around its base, the long 

 gynophore springing from its centre. Stamens 6 ; the fila- 

 ments monadelphous-adnate to the very long gynophore 

 for half its length or more, then free and distinct, filiform, 

 nearly equal : anthers oblong or linear, fixed near the base, 

 introrse, the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary, &C, as in 

 Cleome. 



Capsule silique-shaped, linear, terete, ascending on a very 

 long stipe (gynophore) which is marked as if by an articu- 

 lation in the middle at the point from which the filaments 

 have fallen ; its structure, and also the seeds and embryo, as 

 in Cleome. 



Herbs, either smooth or glandular, with alternate and 

 pahnately 3 - 7-foliolate leaves, and white or purplish flow- 

 ers in a leafv raceme. 



Etymology. So named from the attachment of the stamens to the stalk 

 ut' the pistil, as if gynandrous, 



