1G:3 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



lighter toward the crenulate edge ; claws longer than the 

 limb. Near San Antonio. — Dr. LeavenivortU. 



14. CAPER FAMILY. Order, Capparidace^. 



Ilerhs, shrubs, and trees destitute of true stipules. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, either undivided or palmately 

 lobed. Flowers solitary or in racemes, cruciform, hypo- 

 gynous. Sepals 4. Petals 4, unguiculate (that is, with 

 long claws). Stamens 6 to 12, or some multiple of 4, 

 never tetradynamous, on a disk or separated from the 

 corolla by an internode of the torus. Germ with a style 

 of two united carpels. Style united into one. Stigma 

 discoid. Fruit either pod-shaped and dehiscent, or fleshy 

 and indehiscent. 



Cleome. Stamens 6, not separated from the petals, 

 Polanisia, Stamens 8-32 ; torus not developed. 



CLEOME, L. Spider Flower. 



Petals long-clawed, 4. Sepals sometimes united at base, 

 torus not developed between the petals and stamens, 

 which are 6-4; pod stipulate more or less. Herbs or 

 shrubs. Leaves simple or digitate. Floivers racemed or 

 solitary. 



C. PUKGENS. Glandular pubescent; stem simple and 

 with the petioles aculeate. Leaves 5-9, lobat^, on long 

 petioles, leaflet elliptic-lanceolate, acute at each end, ob- 

 scurely denticulate ; bracts simple ; flowers racemed ; sepals 

 distinct; p)&tals on filiform claws; stamens 6, twice longer 

 than the petals. Plant tall and ^\\o^y, floivers purple. In 

 prairies of South Texas, from May to September. 



POLANISIA. 

 Petals clawed. Stamens 8-32, filaments free, unequal, 



