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II. Cleome. 
Calycine sepals 4, patent, subequal. Petals 4. 
Disk subhemisplierical. Stamens 6, rarely 4. Silique 
dehiscent sessile or stalked on the calyx. — De Cand. 
Name, employed by a physician in the 4th century to desig- 
nate a plant, which, like this, resembled mustard in its taste, 
and grew in moist places. 
Sect. 1. Pedicellaria. 
Disk fleshy, subglobose. Thecapliorum elongated. 
1. Cleome heptaphylla. Seven-leaved bastard Mus- 
tard. 
Herbaceous prickly hirsuto-viscose, leaves 5-7-fo- 
liate viscoso-pubescent, floral leaves sessile cordate, 
silique viscoso-pubescent longer than the thecapliorum. 
Sloane , I. 194. — Browne, 373. — C. spinosa, Jacq. Amer. 190. 
Hx\B. Common in waste places. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
About 4 feet in height, fruticose towards the base, terete, 
hirsute with hairs tipt with viscid glandules, prickly : prickles 
stipulary, short, thick, sharp, subulate. Leaves 5-7-foliate, 
pedate ; leaflets shortly petiolulated, lanceolate, attenuated at 
both ends, hirsute along the midrib towards the base, otherwise 
pubescent and ciliated with viscoso-capitate hairs, penni-nerved : 
petiole terete, slightly channelled, occasionally prickly. Ra- 
ceme terminal. Pedicels about an inch in length, terete, vis- 
coso-hirsute, each furnished at the insertion with a small sessile 
cordate viscoso-pubescent floral leaf. Sepals 4, sub-unequal, 
lineari-lanceolate, viscoso-pubescent, spreading. Petals with 
the limb oblongo-spathulate and white, and with the claw pur- 
ple. Disk ovato-subglobose, unilateral: thecapliorum elongated, 
filiform, upwards of an inch in length, purple, subglabrous, with 
a few minute capitate hairs near the base. Filaments |ths of 
an inch in length, distinct, capillary, purple : anthers linear. 
Ovary linear, terete, densely and minutely glanduloso-puberu- 
lous : style scarcely any: stigma subcapitate. Silique terete, 
3-4-inches in length, viscoso-puberulous with capitate hairs : 
seed numerous, small, reniform. 
This is a wild rank weed, common in waste places, having 
neither beauty, nor any useful property to recommend it to our 
notice. 
