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CLEOME DODECANDRA.
THREE-LEAVED CLEOME. CLAMMY CLEOME. FALSE MUSTARD.
Tetradynamia Siliquosa, Linn. Capparides, Juss. and Vent.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Nectariferous glands 3, one under each o f the three upper calix-leaves, the lower one
without a gland. Calix 4-leaved, small and deciduous. Petals 4, all ascending
to one side. Capsule siliquose, stipitate, 1-celled, 2-valved.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Viscidly pubescent. Flowers dodecandrous; leaves ternate, elliptical j flowers axil-
lary, solitary. B.
Plant fetid, annual, from a span to fifteen inches high, all over viscidly
pubescent. Siliques, also pubescent and clammy. Leaves all ternate,
elliptical or lanceolate-elliptical, the intermediate one larger
than the other two; pubescent, rather obtuse, becoming smaller as
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