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7. CAKILE [Tourn.] Mill. Gard. Diet. Abr. ed. 4. 1754. 



Annual glabrous fleshy herbs, with purplish or white flowers. Siliques 

 elongated, sessile, flattened or ridged, indehiscent, 2-jointed, the joints 1-celled 

 and usually 1-seeded. Style none; cotyledons accumbent. [Old Arabic name.] 

 A genus of about 3 species, natives of sea and lake shores of Europe and North 

 America. Type species: Bunias Cakile L. 



1. Cakile lanceolata (Willd.) O. E. Schulz, in Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 504. 1903. 



Saphanus lariceolatus Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 562. 1801. 

 CaUle aequalis L'Her. DC. Syst. 2: 430. 1821. 



Erect or ascending, often much branched, 8 dm. high or less. Basal and 

 lower leaves broadly oblong, obtuse, 5-8 cm. long, coarsely crenate-dentate ; 

 upper leaves smaller, narrowly obovate to oblong, crenate-dentate or entire; 

 flowers pale purplish, 6-10 mm. broad; fruiting racemes often 3 dm. long; 

 fruiting pedicels stout, ascending, 4-6 mm. long; pod 1.5-2.5 cm. long, its 

 upper joint li— 4 times as long as the lower. 



Maritime sands and white-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama southward through- 

 out the archipelago to Salt Cay (Grand Turk), Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Waiter 

 Cay : — Bermuda ; southern United States ; the West Indies and northern South 

 America. Southeen Sea-kocket. Gaedena. Poek Bdsh. 



Family 3. CAPP ARID ACE AE Lindl. 



Caper Family. 



Herbs or shrubs (rarely trees), with alternate or very rarely opposite 

 leaves, and regular or irregular, mostly perfect flovcers. Sepals 4—8. 

 Petals 4 (rarely none). Receptacle elongated or short. Stamens 4r-^, 

 not tetradynamous, inserted on the receptacle; anthers oblong. Style 

 generally short; ovules oo, on parietal placentae. Fruit a capsule, or 

 indehiscent, or irregularly rupturing. Seeds various; endosperm none; 

 embryo generally coiled. About 35 genera and 450 species, mostly of vearm 

 regions. 



Herbs : fruit a longitudinally dehiscent capsule. 1. Cleome. 



Shrubs and trees ; fruit indehiscent or Irregularly rupturing. 2. Capparis. 



1. CLEOME L. Sp. PI. 671. 1753. 



Herbs or low shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, or simple. Flowers 

 mostly racemose. Calyx 4-divided or of 4 sepals, often persistent. Petals 4, 

 cruciate, nearly equal, entire, more or less clawed. Eeceptacle short, slightly 

 prolonged above the petal-bases. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), inserted on the recep- 

 tacle. Ovary stalked, with a gland at its base. Capsule elongated, many- 

 seeded. [Derivation uncertain.] About 75 species, mainly natives of tropical 

 legions, especially American and African. Type species: Cleome gynandra L. 



1. Cleome gynandra L. Sp. PI. 671. 1753. 



Cxome pentaphylla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 938. 1763. 



Pedicellaria pentaphylla Schrank; Eoem. & Ust. Mag. Bot. 8: 11. 1790. 



Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC. Prod. 1: 238. 1824. 



Annual, bright green, clammy-pubescent. Stem 5-10 dm. tall, branching; 

 ieaf -blades palmately 3-5-foliolate; petioles longer than the leaflets; leaflets 



