192 Capparidaceae 
CAPPARIDACEAE Caper Family _ 
Herbs (ours) or shrubs or trees, annual (ours), often with a radish or turnip taste. 
Leaves alternate, simple (not ours) or ternately- or palmately-compound; stipules none. 
Flowers in ours perfect, regular or irregular, in racemes. Sepals 4—-8. Petals 4 or 
rarely more. Stamens 4—-32, somewhat unequal but not tetradynamous, on the re- 
ceptable. Ovary |-celled; placentae 2, parietal; style 1. Fruit a pod, elliptic or linear, 
pedicelled (ours). Seeds kidney-shaped, many (ours). 
A. Stamens 6; pods pendulous, long stiped, opening from the base upward. 
CLEOME (p. 192) 
AA. Stamens 12—19; pods ereci, unstiped, opening from the tip downward. 
POLANISIA (p. 192) 
, CLEOME 
Erect, branched, glabrous or grandular-hairy. Leaves palmately 3—-8-foliolate. 
Flowers white or purple or yellow. Sepals 4. Stamens 6. Pod linear to elliptic, stipi- 
tate, pendulous, opening from the base upward. (Gk. kleio=to close; referring to the 
flower. ) 
A. Leaflets 3; calyx 4-cleft; petals white to purplish. E. 
C. serrulata Pursh (Stinking Clover) 
AA. Leaflets 5 or on the upper leaves 3; calyx 4-cleft; petals yellow.’ E. 
C. luteg Hook. (Stinking Mustard) 
AAA. Leaflets 3; calyx of 4 distinct sepals; petals yellow. E. 
. C. platycarpa Torr. 
POLANISIA. (Jacksonia) CLAMMY-WEED 
Glandular-pubescent (ours). Leaves 3(ours)—9-foliolate. Flowers white or rose 
or yellow (ours). Sepals 4. Petals 6—10 mm. long (ours). Stamens 8—32 
(12—19 in ours). Pods erect, linear, opening from the tip downwards. (Gk. polys= 
many, anisos—=not equal; referring to the stamens. ) E: 
F, trachysperma T. & G. 
SARRACENIACEAE  Pitcher-plant Family 
Marsh herbs. Leaves all basal, tubular or pitcher-shaped. Flowers large, nod- 
ding, on scapes. Sepals 4—5 (ours), hypogynous, imbricated, persistent. Petals none 
or 5 (ours), imbricated, hypogynous, deciduous. Stamens many; anthers versatile. 
Ovary 3—5-celled; style terminal, peltate or lobed (ours) or simple. Capsule loculicidal. 
Seed small, reticulate, many, in many rows. 
DARLINGTONIA 
Perennial (ours), with long creeping rootstocks (ours). Sepals narrow, without 
bracts at base. Petals ovate-oblong with small ovate tip. Stamens 12—15. Ovary 
top-shaped, 5-celled; style short, with 5 linear club-shaped lobes. Capsule 5-valved. 
Seeds obovate-clavate, densely soft-spiny. (Honor of Wm. Darlington, an American 
botanist.) U. (Chrysamphora californica.) 
DBD. ealifornice T. & G. (Pitcher Plant) 
DROSERACEAE Sundew Family 
Herbs, biennial or perennial, glandular-pubescent, exuding a copious clear viscid 
liquid. Leaves mostly basal. Flowers perfect. Calyx persistent, 4—5-parted or the: 

