
          New Genus.
Nat Oud. Capparideae

Sepals 5, lance-linear, acute; petals 5,
spatulate, obtuse; Stamens 9 to 28,
arising from the receptacle, style short,
silique 2- valved, 2- celled many
seeded.

Root annual, branching and
fibrous; stem slightly clothed with
a declined pubescence, branching; leaves
alternate, distant, oblong and oblong
lanceolate, crenate-sereate, usually
acute, obliquely sub-truncate at base,
rugose, glabrous above, slightly pubescent
on the [leaves?] and midrib [crossed out: above] beneath,
from an inch to an inch and a half in
length: petioles pubescent, one third
as long as the leaves; stipule 2, minute,
sub-terete, subulate, hirsute, one on each side
the petiole; peduncles much shorter
than the petioles, puberescent, having at base
3 minute, reddish, terete, pointed bracts: flowers
solitary, seldom in pairs, extra-axillary,
opposing the leaves! i.e. The peduncle
is attached to the branch at a point
nearly opposite the origin of the petiole.
Sepals 5, lance-linear, acute, yellow and
purple, and hairy outside, yellow and 
glabrous inside; petals 5, yellow, glabrous,
spatulate, rounded at the end, a little shorter
than the calyx; stamens equalling
the petals, yellow, arising from the receptacle,
and varying in number from 9 to
28; styles short, glabrous; pericarp a long
linear, sub-terele, pointed, slightly curved
oblately compressed, 2-valved, 2-celled pod,
the partition of which is transverse to the
plane of dehiscence, seed numerous in two
rows cylindrical, truncate, black when
mature.

Flowers from July to Oct. grows from
1 to 2 feet high in fields and by way sides,
about New Orleans. Herbage mucilaginous.
Rafinesque proposes that it should be called
Riddellia antiphyla

Nov. 1838

[Corchorus siliquosus !]
J.T.
        