Cleome rubella Burch.

Erect, annual herb 12-40 cm tall, usually much branched. Stems striate, viscid glandular-pubescent. Leaves aromatic, 5-7(-9)-foliolate, petiolate; petioles glandular-pubescent, about 2 cm long, becoming shorter towards the inflorescences; leaflets very shortly petiolulate, sparingly glandular-pubescent to glabrous, linear-spathulate, 0.5-2 cm long, 1-2.5 mm broad, usually folded along the midrib, obtuse to rounded at the apex, tapering gradually to the base. Inflorescence a terminal raceme; bracts similar to the leaves but sessile or subsessile and with progressively fewer leaflets up the stem; pedicels 5-10 mm long, glandular-pubescent. Sepals pink, 2-3 mm long, subulate, puberulous. Petals mauve-pink to rose without a yellow transverse band, oblanceolate, 5-8 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, rounded at the apex, narrowing to a basal claw. Stamens 6-9; filaments slender, about as long as the petals, glabrous, rose-pink; anthers 1 mm long, usually curved. Ovary almost sessile, 1 mm long, minutely puberulous; style about 1 mm long; stigma subcapitate. Capsule glandular-pubescent, linear, 2.3-9 cm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, on a gynophore 2-3 mm long; valves with about 9 longitudinal nerves; style about 2 mm long. Seeds broadly comma-shaped, brown, somewhat flattened, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, transversely rugose.