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5. * Cleome Houstouis. Houston’s Cleome. 
Herbaceous glanduloso-velutine, stipules and peti- 
oles spinescent, leaves 3-o-foliate, floral leaflets ovali- 
oblong, siliques shortly stalked glanduloso-velutine. 
Brown, Hort. Keiv. IV. 131. 
III. Cratjeva. 
Calyx of 4 sepals. Petals 4 larger than the calyx. 
Stamens 8-28. Disk elongated or hemispherical. 
Berry stalked, thinly corticated, ovato-globose, pulpy 
within. 
Name, from Cratsevas, a Greek naturalist mentioned by Hip- 
pocrates. 
Unarmed shrubby trees with 3-foliate leaves. 
1. Crataeva gynandra. Gynandrous Garlic-Pear- 
tree. 
Stamens 20-24 inserted on a cylindrical disk longer 
than the petals, berry ovoid, leaflets ovate acuminate. 
Sloane, II. 170. — Browne, 246. — Swartz, Obs. 191. 
HAB. Common in the plains. 
FL. May. 
A tree about 15 feet in height: branches terete, glabrous, 
marked with small oblong rimose white spots. Leaves towards 
the ends of the young branches, alternate, petiolate, 8-foliate ; 
leaflets petiolulated, ovate, acuminate, (the lateral ones unequal 
at the base), entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous, delicately nerved : 
petiole terete. Inflorescence at first corymbose, but afterwards, 
from the elongation of the peduncle, racemose : peduncle angu- 
lose : pedicels an inch or more in length, received into a thick- 
ened cup, furnished with a spathulato-lanceolate bractea. Flow- 
ers numerous, rather large, purpurascent. Sepals of the calyx 
4, ovate, with a tranverse corrugated excrescence internally at 
the base, deciduous. Petals alternating with the sepals, 2, 
rarely 4, unequal, clawed, spathulate, white, the longest about 
| an inch in length. Stamens 20-24, an inch and a half in 
length, capillary, purpurescent, inserted on the disk: anthers 
linear: pollen yellow. Pistil in the barren flowers imperfect; 
in the fertile conical, supported on a stipe which is at first short, 
but afterwards becomes elongated as the fruit forms. Berry 
size of a pigeon’s egg, ovoid, 2-celled, many-seeded. 
This is a very common tree in the plains. From its nause- 
ous smell it has received the name of the Garlic- Pear-tree It 
has a burning acrid taste, and the bark applied externally is said 
to produce vesication. 
