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4. Cleome affinis, DC. I. c 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil : collected with the preceding species. 



5. Cleome Richii, Sp. Nov. 



C. herbacea, fere glabra, aculeis stipularibus et petiolaribus validis com- 

 planatis armata; foliis 5-7 '-foliolatis ; foliolis lanceolatis, costa sospius 

 aculeata; petalis (albis vel albidis rnajusculis) anguste oblongis longe 

 unguiculatis ; ovario cum thecaphoro eodem subbreviore staminibus 

 multoties brwioribus* 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil : in open places. 



Plant nearly glabrous, or the branches, pedicels, &c, minutely gra- 

 nulose or glandular-viscous : the stem herbaceous, apparently 2 or 3 

 feet high, rather stout, armed with short and flattened stout stipular 

 prickles. Petioles elongated (5 or 6 inches long), grooved above, 

 armed with numerous stout recurved prickles, resembling the stipular 

 ones. Leaflets 5 to 7, broadly lanceolate, scarcely petiolulate, about 2 

 inches long, usually prickly along the midrib underneath. Floral 

 leaves small and simple, ovate, nearly sessile. Pedicels filiform, 2 

 inches long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 lines long, minutely glan- 

 dular, like the pedicels. Petals apparently white, an inch and a 

 quarter in length, including the claw, which is nearly as long as the 

 narrowly oblong lamina. Filaments purplish, 2 inches long. Ovary 

 less than 2 lines long, on a stipe of only a line in length. Fruit not 

 seen. 



This may prove to be some ill-described species ; but I cannot iden- 

 tify it. 



6. Cleome dendroides, Roem. & Schult. 



Cleome dendroides, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 28 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3296. 

 C. atropurpurea, Schott, in Schreib. Nachtr. p. 129, ex. Roem. & Schult. 



