GYNANDROPSIS (from gyne, a female, andros, a male, and opsis, appearance; stamens appear as if inserted on the top of the ovary). ORD. Capparideae. A genus containing about ten species of half-hardy or green-house annual herbs, natives of tropical regions of both hemispheres. Flowers white or purple, often showy; racemes leafy. Leaves three to seven-foliolate. Forculture, see Cleome. GYNANDROPSIS coccinea (scarlet). fl. scarlet, in a many-flowered corymbose terminal raceme. Summer. l. long-stalked, palmipartite. h. 6ft. to 9ft. Columbia, 1878. A beautiful cool-house plant. GYNANDROPSIS pentaphylla (five-leaved). fl. white; petals obovate, four times the length of the calyx; stamens inserted upon the middle of the gynophore. June and July. l. quinate; segments obovate-lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate. Stem unarmed. h. 2ft. East and West Indies, 1640. Greenhouse. (B. M. 1681, under name of Cleome pentaphylla.)