CLEOME DODECANDRA. 



THREE-LEAVED CLEOME. CLAMMY CLEOME. FALSE MUSTARD. 



Tetradynamia Siliquosa, Linn. Capparides, Juss. and Vent. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Nectariferous glands 3, one under each of the three upper calix-leaves, the lower one with- 

 out a gland. Calix 4-leaved, small and deciduous. Petals 4, all ascending to one 

 side. Capsule siliquose, stipitate, 1-celled, 2-valved. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Viscidly pubescent* Flowers dodecandrous ; leaves lernate, elliptical ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary. B. 



Plant fetid, annual, from a span to fifteen inches high, all over vis- 

 cidly pubescent. Siliques also pubescent and clammy. Leaves all ter- 

 nate, elliptical or lanceolate-elliptical, the intermediate one larger 

 than the other two ', pubescent, rather obtuse, becoming smaller as 



