Its therapeutic properties are identical with those of the cleome viscosa.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Under my window a colony of cleome made a soft web of bloom that drew me every morning for a long still time; and one day I discovered that I was looking into a rare fretwork of fawn and straw colored twigs from which both bloom and leaf had gone, and I could not say if it had been for a matter of weeks or days.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin