FLORA OF ADEN. 
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1. Cleome Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely subarborescent, glabrous, glandular, scabrous 
or aculeolate. Leaves simple or 3-9-foliate ; leaflets entire or serrulate. 
Flowers racemose or solitary and axillary. Sepals 4, spreading. 
Petals 4, subequal, sometimes subunilateral. Stamens 4-20, all or two 
or more anther-bearing, inserted upon the torus, free or very shortly 
coherent at the base. Ovary sessile or stipitate, 1-celled ; ovules indefi- 
nite on 2 parietal placentas. 
Capsule linear, oval or ellipsoid, sessile or stipitate, 1-celled, with 
membranous or rather coriaceous valves separating from a persistent 
replum. Seeds indefinite, reniform or globose-reniform ; cotyledons in- 
curved or circinate. 
Species about 70. 
Distribution : — In tropical and subtropical countries both of the Old 
and New World. 
A. Leaves simple : — 
1. Style short, T \ — | inch long : — 
a. Bracts minute or absent 
b. Bracts only slightly smaller than the leaves 
c. Bracts small, sessile .... 
2. Style long, | — f inch : — 
a. Leaves ovate- cordate .... 
b. „ cordate-suborbiculate 
c. ,, orbiculate .... 
B. Leaves compound : — 
1. Capsule oval or elliptical, 2 — 4 lines long 
2. Capsule linear, 4 inches long . . . 
. 1. C. quinquenervia. 
. 6. C. brachystyla. 
. 2. C. papillosa. 
. 5. C. pruinosa. 
. 7. C. polytricha. 
. 8. C. droserifolia. 
. 3. C. brachycarpa. 
. 4. C. paradoxa. 
1. Cleome quinquenervia DC. Prodr I, 239 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 3 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 415 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. I, 37. 
Cleome pentanervia Ait. Cat. Pb. and Sind PI. p. 9. 
Description: — Glaucous, 6-12 inches high. the whole plant covered 
with glandular hairs ; branches many from a woody base, rigid. Leaves 
{-1 inch in diameter, ovate or suborbicular, subcordate, palmately 5- nerv- 
ed from the base, margins ciliate with glandular hairs. 
Flowers pale pink in the axils of leafy bracts on short racemes ; 
bracts ovate, acute, subsessile ; pedicels slender, i — § inch long. Sepals 
linear, acute, half as long as the petals, ciliate with glandular hairs. 
Petals ovate, acute, with a crested appendage across the inside or little 
above the base. Stamens 4. 
Capsule 1 — 1^- by •§• inch, narrow-oblong, acute at both ends, 
straight or slightly curved, rough with short, thick glandular hairs. No 
gynophore. Seeds minute, numerous, smooth, brown. 
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