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Our spocimen-s (n. 556), are from a plant of less scaberulous character than 

 is typical, and of which the upper leaves of the flowering shoots are longly 

 petioled, not sessile as in the type. There is no fruit on the specimen to con- 

 firm the identification, yet I have little doubt it is a form of this species. 

 Schweinfurth sends specimens (n. 289), collected near Tamarida, which are 

 quite glabrous, and he tickets them " Cleome aff. brachycarpa, sed habitu 

 diversa et foliis non moschatis inodoris." In a note he remarks CI. brachycarpa 

 is " herba semper moschata, covered all over with short stalked glands." This 

 plant has sessile glands on the fruit only, and though in structure the flowers 

 are like those of CI. brachycarpa yet they are smaller, the foliage is more 

 minute, and the basal leaves are simple with long stalks. He concludes, 

 however, that it may be merely a shade form of CI. brachycarpa, but on 

 account of its slender habit, inodorous character, and minute different foliage, 

 deserving a varietal name, for which he proposes " filicaulis." Its diagnosis is, — 



CI. brachycarpa, Vahl, var. filicaulis, Schweinf. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. 

 xiii. (1883). 



Minuta, eglandulosa, inodora, filicaulis. 



Soeotra. Near Tamarida. Schweinf. n. 289. 

 Distkib. Endemic. 



5. CI. viscosa, Linn. Sp. 938 ; Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. i. 80 .; Hook. fil. 

 and Thorns, in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 170. 



Polanisia viscosa, DC. Prod. i. 242. 

 P. icosandra, Wight Ic. t. 2. 



Soeotra. About villages, B.C.S. n. 681. Schweinf. n. 276, in lit. 

 Distrib. A common tropical weed. 



2. GYNANDKOPSIS. 



Gynandropsis, DC. Prod. i. 237 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 106. 



A small genus of herbaceous plants found in the tropics all round the 

 world. 



G. pentaphylla, DC. Prod. i. 238 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 410 ; 

 Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. i. 82 ; Hook. fil. and Thorns, in Hook. Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. i. 171. 



Cleome pentaphylla, Linn. Sp. 938 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1681. 



Soeotra. Casual about habitations. B.C.S. n. 206. Schweinf. n. 393. 

 Distrib. Common tropical weed. 



