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fmooth, or with a few hairs at the bottom ; the ftem round 
and branching. According to Loureiro, the Item is un¬ 
armed, fimple, two feet high, of a duiky red colour, with 
diftuled branches. Native of both Indies, Cochinchina, 
&c. Mr. Miller lays, that it grows naturally in Alia, 
Africa, and America; that he received the feeds from 
Aleppo, the coalt of Guinea, and in the earth which came 
from the Weft Indies with other plants. It was culti¬ 
vated in 164.0 by Parkinfon; and flowers in June and July. 
4. Cieome triphylla, or three-leaved cleome: flowers 
gynandrous; leaves ternate; Item unarmed. This is an 
annual plant which rifes two feet high, fending out many 
fide branches, with leaves, having one large fpear-fhaped 
lobe in the middle, and two very fmall ones on the fide; 
thele lit clofe to the branches. -The flowers come out 
iingly from the fide of the branches, upon long pedun¬ 
cles; they have four large flefh-coloured petals, and fix 
ftamens, which ftand out beyond the petals; when the 
flowers fade, the germ which fits upon the ftyle becomes 
a taper pod four inches long. That this and the fore¬ 
going, fays Linnaeus, were originally the offspring of the 
fame plant, is evident, from the floral leaves in all being 
feflile; from the-flowers being gynandrous, and having 
fix ftamens; the petals afcending; the filiques pedicelled; 
and their habit the fame: they are therefore hardly dif- 
tmCf fpecies. Sent to Mr. Miller from Jamaica, by Dr. 
Houftoun, in the year 1730. 
3. Cleome juncea, or rufhy cleome: leaflefs; flowers 
gynandrous, eight-ftamened, corymbs lateral, genitals 
elongated, filique, linear, tomentofe; Item fhrubby. Stem 
from a foot to two feet in height, hardly the thicknefs of 
goofe-quill; branches rigid like fpines, commonly end¬ 
ing lharply, greenifh, round, lpreading, finoothifh : leaves 
fcarcely any, but rather minute fcaies coming out here 
and there on the Item and branches; flowers in a co¬ 
rymb; common peduncle very fhort; partial peduncles 
filiform, from half an inch to an inch in length, round, 
fomewhat woolly, yellowilh; feeds blackilh, orbiculate, 
fomewhat comprefled, in a double row, and each, as it 
were, in its proper ceil. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
and found there near the Black River by Sparrman. 
6. Cleome polygama : upper flowers four-ftamened, 
male ; leaves ternate ; leaflets fellile, fomewhat prickly on 
the edge. Stem eredf, fomewhat glofly, a little branched, 
fimple, and feldom riles above twenty or twenty-five 
inches. Native of Jamaica, in moift bottoms. 
7. Cleome chelidonii: flowers many-ftamened ; leaflets 
in fives or fevens, wedge-form, rugged; racemes termi¬ 
nating; filiques filiform. This fpecies has certainly a 
great affinity to chelidonium, were it not for the digitate 
leaves, more than two leaves to the calyx, and five petals 
to the corolla. Koenig found it near Tanlchaur, in the 
Eaft Indies. 
8. Cleome felina, or cat’s-tongue cleome : flowers many- 
ftamened, axillary, 1 folitary, peduncled ; leaves ternate, 
wedge-form, ftrigofe ; filiques, linear, comprefled. The 
whole herb, together with the calyx, is ftrigofe. It is 
Angular with its hifpid leaves; the hairs very much di¬ 
lated at the bafe, very lfitf, prefled clofe to the leaves, 
pointing clofe to the extremity, fo as exactly to refemble 
a cat’s tongue. Found in Ceylon by Koenig. 
9. Cleome icofa.ndra: flowers icofi-tetrandrous; leaves 
quinate. Stem herbaceous, annual, two feet high, erect, 
round, unarmed, ftriated, vifcid-hajry; branches afcend¬ 
ing. Native of the Eaft Indies and Cochinchina. 
10. Cleome vifcofa, or vilcid cleome: flowers twelve- 
ftamened; leaves quinate and ternate. Stem eredt, a foot 
high, fimple, round, ftriated, villoie, vilcid, often red ; 
leaves all quinate, except the uppermoft, which are ter¬ 
nate; both thele and the flowers are fmailer than in the 
foregoing fpecies ; the lower petals are more divaricated ; 
it has from ten to fifteen ftamens. It is an annual plant, 
native of the ifland of Ceylon, whence the feeds were 
brought to Holland, and lent to Mr. Miller, by Boer- 
liaave, in 1739. 
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11. Cleome dodecandra, or twelve ftamened cleome: 
flowers twelve-ftamened ; leaves ternate. Native of both 
Indies; annual. 
12. Cleome gigantea, or gigantic cleome: flowers fix- 
ftamened; leaves in fevens; Item unarmed. Stem tv.o 
and even four yards in height, round, pubefcerit, eredl, 
evergreen. This beautiful plant has a very burning take 
and ltinking fmell. Native of South America. 
13. Cleome aculeata, or prickly cleome: flowers fix- 
ftamened ; leaves ternate, quite entire; Itipules fpinefceht, 
Obferved in America by Zoega. 
14. Cleome fpinofa, or thorny cleome : flowers flx-fta- 
mened ; leaves in fevens and fives; Item thorny. Root 
annual; Item herbaceous, a fathomhigh, upright, branch¬ 
ed, hirfute, round, with prickles.at the bafe of the branch- 
lets; according to Linnaeus divaricate ; leaves fnootliilh; 
ftipules in pairs, permanent, and hardening into thorns ; 
ftamens longer than the flower, but not gynandrous. Na¬ 
tive of the Weft Indies. Sent to Mr. Miller from the 
Havannah, in the year 1731, by Dr. Houftoun. 
15. Cleome ferrata, or ferrate-leaved cleome: flowers 
flx-ltamened ; leaves ternate; leaflets . linear-lanceolate, 
ferrate. This is an annual upright plant, two feet in 
height; a native of Carthagena, in South America, in 
moift woods. 
16. Cleome ornithopodioides, or bird’s-foot cleome: 
flowers fix-ftamened ; leaves ternate ; leaflets oval-lance¬ 
olate. Stem round, ftraight, from a foot to two feet in 
height, pale green, with Ihort ftiffilh rough hairs ; leaves 
ftrong-fmelling, on a rough petiole half an inch in length ; 
leaflets commonly bent back, of a pale glaucous hue on 
both fides, fmooth in appearance, but roughilh to the 
touch, having numerous Ihort hairs along the edge ; 
lcarcely perceptible, except in the younger leaves ; from 
the axils of thefe there'are other fmailer ones ; from the 
upper axils come out fingly fmall yellow flowers, on (len¬ 
der peduncles fpreading horizontally; ftamens fix, bent 
in; antheras fmall, faft’ron-coloured ; lilique fubhirl'ute, 
appearing jointed when ripe, like the legume of ornitho- 
pus, .whence the trivial name. It is an annual plant, 
flowering in June and July; a native of the Levant, and 
was cultivated in 1731 by James Sherard, M. D. 
17. Cleome violacea, or violet-coloured cleome: flow'ers 
flx-ltamened; leaves ternate and folitary ; leaflets lanceo¬ 
late-linear, quite entire. Native of Portugal; annual 3 
flowering in June and July. 
18. Cleome Arabica, or Arabian cleome; flowers fix- 
ftamened ; leaves ternate, lanceolate, obtm'e ; filiques fu~ 
fiform, vifcid-fcabrous. This is an annual vilcid and lca- 
brous plant, two feet high. Native of Arabia. 
19. Cleome monophylla : flowers fix-ftamened ; leaves 
fimple, ovate-lanceolate, petioled. This is an annual 
plant, with an herbaceous (talk a foot and a half high. 
20. Cleome Capenlis, or Cape cleome: flowers fix-fta¬ 
mened; leaves fimple, feflile, linear-lanceolafe; Hem an¬ 
gular. Stem Ample, ft iff, and upright, relembling that 
of epilobium; leaves like thofe of broom, ftiff, ftraight, 
and fmooth. It is thus deferibed by Sergius, if his plant 
be the fame with Linnaeus’s : ftein herbaceous, ereft, 
round, ftriated, fmooth, more than a foot high ; branches 
alternate, fimple, long, upright; leaves alternate, linear, 
obtule, flefliy ; flowers in thin racemes, on alternate, one- 
flowered, pedicels ; leaflets of the calyx ovate, lharpifh, 
equal, permanent; petals wedge-lhaped, blunt, narrowed 
gradually downwards, upright, equal, feverai times linger 
than the calyx, purple-flelh-coloured, with linear, fliort s 
yellowilh, claws; feed-veflel a cordate capluie,itwo-celled s 
tvvo-valved. Native of India and the Cape of GoocfHope. 
21. Cleome procumbens: flowers fix-ftamened ; leaves 
fimple, lanceolate, petioled; Hems procumbent. Stem her¬ 
baceous, fix inches high, fuffrutefeent, branched, fmooth 5 
branches lomewhat ereft, fubdivided, fmooth ; leaves al¬ 
ternate, final], acute, fmooth ; flowers axillary, peduncled, 
folitary. Native of Jamaica and Kifpaniola, in dry fand 5 
flowering in November, 
22. Cieome 
