Cleome.'J CAPPABIDE^. 49 



Sepals 4), free or connate, valvate or imbricate, rarely open in bud. 

 Petals 4, rarely 2 or 0, bypogynous or seated on a disk, imbricate or 

 open in bnd. Stamens 4 or more, bypogynous or peri gy nous, or at 

 tke base of or on a long or sbort gynopbore. Ovary sessile or stalked, 

 1-celled. Style sbort or 0. Stigma depressed or capitate. Ovules 

 indefinite, on 2-4 parietal placentas. Fruit capsular or a berry. 

 Seeds exalbuminous. — Cbiefly tropical. 

 Herbs, fruit capsular. 



Stamens sessile on the disk, petals imbri- 

 cate in bud 1. Cleome. 



Stamens on the gynopbore, petals open in 



bud 2. Gtnandegpsis, 



Shrubs or trees, fruit a berry. 



Sepals combined at the base, fruit monili- 

 form 3. M^RUA. 



Sepals distinct. 



Sepals distant, inserted on the edge of 

 an expanded disk . - . .4. CRATiEVA. 



Sepals biseriate, stipules spinescent . 5. Capparis. 



1. CLEOME, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 168. 



Herbs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-9-foliolate. Flowers in 

 racemes. Sepals 4, spreading. Petals 4. Stamens 4 to many, 

 sessile on the disk. Ovary sessile or sub-sessile. Style sbort or 0. 

 Ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas- Capsule oblong or linear; 

 valves 2, separating from the seed-bearing placentas. Seeds reni- 

 form. — Cbiefly tropical. 



Leaves simple 1. 0. sim'plicifoUa, 



Leaves compound- 

 Stamens 6 . . , . > t t. C, hrachyearpa. 

 Stamens 12 or more — 



Capsule glandular-pubescent . t 3. C, viseosa. 



Capsule glabrous . . . . 4. C. Chelidonii, 



1. C. simpUcifolia, Hk. f. ^ T. in F. B. I. i, 169. Polauisia simplici- 

 folia, Camh. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 20, t 20; D. Sf Q. Bomb, Fl. 8. C. 

 burtporensis, Munro. 



A prostrate strigose branching annual. Leaves simple, 1-2 in. long, 

 obovate-obloug or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, soaberulous, the hairs 

 with scale-like bases. Flowers \ in., violet. Bracts lea-fy. Stamens 

 10-12. Ca'psule f-li in., subsessile, torulose ; beak | in. Seeds large, 

 brown, smooth. 



