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3.—CLEOME ROSEA, Vahl. THE ROSE-COLOURED CLEOME. 
Engravings. —Bot. Reg. t. 980. I and floral ones ternate, uppermost ovate, sessile. Silique smooth, 
Specific Character _Unarmed, smooth. Leaflets quinate, lower | length of stipe. — (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —An upright and rather stiff plant, growing about a foot and a half high, with stiff rose- 
coloured flowers. It is a native of Rio Janeiro, introduced in 1824. Seeds may be had at Charlwood’s, and at 
Forrest’s, Kensington. 
OTHER SPECIES OF CLEOME. 
The following kinds, though some of them much hardier than those we have enumerated, are not in any 
nurseryman’s catalogue; but we mention them in the hope that a demand may be created for them, in which 
case nurserymen will take care soon to procure the seeds. 
C. PUBESCENS, Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 1857. 
This species has white flowers, and bears some general resemblance to C . pentaphylla, though it differs in 
botanical construction. Its seeds were sent to England from Paris, in 1815 ; but it is not known of what country 
it is a native. It is half hardy. 
C. SPECIOSISSIMA, Deppe. Bot. Mag. t. 1312. 
A splendid plant with bright rose-coloured flowers ; perhaps the handsomest of all the species. A native of 
the country near Xalapa in Mexico; introduced in 1829. It may be treated as a common border flower, and it 
will ripen it3 seeds in the open air. 
C. MONOPHYLLA, Lin. 
A native of Ceylon, with yellow flowers, and greenish blue anthers. Introduced in 1759. 
C, TETRANDRA, Banks. 
A native of New Holland, with yellow flowers, which would probably prove hardy in England, but which is 
not yet introduced. 
C. VIOLACEA, Lin. 
A native of Portugal, quite hardy, introduced in 1776- The flowers are purple, spotted with yellow. 
C. ARABICA, Lin. 
A native of sandy places in Arabia. Introduced in 1794. The flowers are white, with yellow veins, and 
tinged with purple at the extremity ; the filaments are yellow. 
There are many other kinds of Cleome, all beautiful and well worthy of cultivation. They may all be sown 
on a hotbed early in Spring, and planted out into a warm dry border about the middle of May. They will then 
flower splendidly, and ripen abundance of seeds. The seeds, as already observed, will keep well, and are there¬ 
fore suitable for being sent from a distant country. 
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