Cleome.] xi. capparide^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 169 



aromatic. Leaves 1 in. diam., obtuse or acute, base cordate or rounded, margins and 

 long petioles glandular. Mowers small; racemes elongate in fruit; bracts usually 

 subsHssile, rarely narrow, upper sometimes 0. Capsules 1-1 4 by J in., sessile, narrow- 

 oblong, acute at both ends ; hairs short rigid -frith tubei-cled bases, mixed with soft 

 black gkndular hairs. Seeds minute, smooth. — Anderson describes 6 stamens, we find 

 only 4. 



4'. C. Stocfcslana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 414: glandular above, leaves 

 ovate or obovate tubercled palmately 3-nerved, bracts small or leafy, sta- 

 mens 6, filaments claVate. Griff. Itin. Notes 226, n. 183. 



Rocky hills in Sihdh, Stocks. — Disteib. Beluchistan. 



Perennial ; branches spreading from the base, erect or ascending, white, glabrous, 

 rough below, densely glandular and tubercled, above. Leaves 1 in., fleshy, acute or 

 obtuse ; petiole 1-1 j in. Flowers small, pale purple, at length yellow ;- racemes short 

 nr long, densely glandular. Petcds obovate-spathulate, clawed. Capsules 14 by J in., 

 broad-linear, subsessile, pendulous, striate. Seeds large, brown hairy. 



5. C. simpllcifolia, H.f. & T. ; prostrate, strigose, leaves obovate- 

 oblong or lanceolate, bracts leafy, stamens 10-12, filaments filiform. Po- 

 lanisia simpllcifolia, Gamh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 20, t. 20 ; Dalzell <fc Gihs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 8. P. burtporensis, Munroin Wight Ic. t. 1072. C. monophylla. 

 Law in Graham Cat. Bomb. PL 7. 



NoKTHEEN India, near Burtpore, Mimro; drier parts of the Dekkan and Concan. 



Annual, 6-18 in., much branched from the base. Leaves 1-2 in., obtuse or acute, 

 all scaberulous, hairs with scale-like bases. Flowers ^ in., violet, in elongating leafy 

 racemes. Filaments Shlovm. CapsMk J-IJ in., subsessile, torulose; beak J in. Seeds 

 large, brown, smooth. 



** Leaves compound. Stamens 6. 



6. C. tenella, Zdnn.f.; 1)0. Prod/r. i. 240 ; glabrous, leaves 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets linear, capsule subsessile glabrous. W. & A. Prodr. 21 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 6966 ; Oliv. FL Trop. Afric. i. 78. C. angustifoHa, A. Rich. FL Seneg. 20. 



Driest parts of the Caenatic, Meyne, &o. — Distkib. Trop. Africa. 



Annual, 3-12 in. ; branches many, slender, spreading. Leaflets equalling or exceed- 

 ing the petiole. Flowers minute, purplish, in few-flowered racemes ; bracts simple or 

 3-foliolate. Capsules 1-1^ in., linear. Seeds minute, smooth; — Indian specimens are 

 rather smaller than African. 



7. C. brachycarpa, Vahl ex DC. Prodr. i. 240 ; musky, glandular and 

 rough, leaves 3-5-fo)iolate upper simple, leaflets obovate or oblong, capsule 

 scaberulous. T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Sac. v. Suppl. 4 ; Edgenv. I.e. vi, 

 184 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 77. C. Ruta, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 19, 1. 19. 

 C. Vahliana, Fresen. ; and diversifolia, Uochst. 



N.W. India, from Agra, Jamieson, westward to Peshawur, Stewart; Sindh, Stocks. 

 ■^DisTEiE. Arabia, Abyssinia. 



Perennial, 6-12 in., branched from the base. Leaflets \-^ in., lower petioled, floral 

 subsessile. Flowers i-4 in. long, yellow, long-peduncled, in leafy racemes. Capsules 

 i in., oblong. Seeds minute, smooth. 



8. C. aspera, Eoenig ex DC. Prodr. i. 241 ; branches glabrous prickly, 

 leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets equalling or exceeding the petioles, flowers 

 axillary, capsule sessile slender torulose. W. (& A. Prodr. 22 ; WaU. Cat. 

 6967 ; Wight Ic. t. 287: C. diffasa, Roi^. FL Ind. iii. 129. 



Western Peninsula and Ceylon ; common in saud^ soil. 



Annual, 6-18 in. ; branches many from the root, pnokles minute. Leaflets ^-J m. 



