CAPER FAMILY 15 



Leaflets 3, linear to oblong ; flowers whitish to yellow- 

 ish, 3-6 mm. long C.Jdmesii 



Cleomella De Candolle 1824 Cleomella 

 (Diminutive of Cleome) 



Sepals 4, petals 4, yellow, stalkless, stamens 6, pod rhomboid, short, 

 somewhat inflated, long-stalked, 4-10-seeded; flowers in racemes; leaves 

 of 3 entire leaflets, digitate, smooth ; animal. 



1. Style none; stalk 1-2 times as long as its pod C. angustifolia 



2. Style evident ; stalk 3 or more times as long as the 



pod C. oocarpa 



Cleome Linne 1753 Cleome, Rocky Mountain Bee-Plant 



(Of uncertain origin) 



(PeritomaD C.) 



PL 5, fig. 3. 



Sepals 4, petals 4, pink, white or yellow, usually stalked, stamens 6 

 :>r 4, pod linear-oblong to oblong, roundish in section, beaked, stalked, 6-30- 

 Beeded ; flowers in corymbs or racemes ; leaves of 3-5-leaflets, digitate, 

 .smooth, annual. 



1. Mowers pink to white; leaflets 3 



a. Leaflets lanceolate; petals 8-12 mm. long; pods 

 10-30-seeded C. serruldta 



b. Leaflets linear; petals 4 mm. long; pods 6-8- 

 seeded C. sonorae 



2. Flowers yellow ; leaflets mostly 5 C. httca 



Polanisia Rafinesque 1819 Polanisia 

 (Gr. polys, many, anisos, unequal, from the stamens) 



Sepals 4, purplish, petals 4, whitish to yellowish, stalked, notched 

 stamens 8-24, unequal, pod oblong, elongated, roundish or somewhat com- 

 pressed, stalkless or nearly so, many-seeded ; flowers in racemes ; leaves of 

 3 entire leaflets, digitate, sticky; annual. 



1. Stamens about twice as long as the petals; flow- 



ers 7-12 mm. long P. trachys pernio 



2. Stamens hardly if at all longer than the petals: 

 flowers 4-6 mm. long P. grave ol ens 



