Cardamine.] vin. crucifer.e (oliver). 61 



unequally crenate-serrate. Siliquas erect, very narrow, at length sometimes 

 nearly glabrous. J S 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit ! Schimper ! 



tower Guinea. Angola, Golnngo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 



Dr Ml" 6 -. u a i hed t0 an Indian P laut ' re S iU-<led ^ a forra of 0. hirsute, by Dr. Hooker, 

 r. welwitsch found his plant always apetalous and with tetrandrous flowers. 



4. C. hirsuta, Linn. ; DC. Si/st. Veg. ii. 259. A small, erect or ascend- 

 ing annual herb, often much branched or tufted at the base. Leaves pinnate ; 

 segments rounded, ovate or obovate, broadly toothed, the upper narrower, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Stamens often fewer than 6. Siliquas 

 erect, on short pedicels.— C. simensis, Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



in?^ P f r Guinea - Fernando Po, 7500-8500 ft., and Camaroons mountain, 8000- 

 iu.uuu it., Mann .' 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, near Demerki, Schimper ! 

 common in nearly all temperate countries. 



6. MORETTIA, DC; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 70. 



Sepals erect, equal. Petals narrow or linear. Siliqua nearly terete, erect, 

 recurved above, on a short thick pedicel ; valves rigid, nerved or subcarinate, 

 somewhat septate within, tardy in dehiscing; style short; stigma 2-lobed. 

 seeds compressed in a single row. Radicle accumbent. — Branched, leafy, 

 rather rigid herbs, with entire or dentate, stellate-hispid or hoary, sessile or 

 Sessile leaves. Racemes leafy. 



A 8raa11 desei- t genus of N. Africa and Arabia. 



6-10 BI * Philae ana, DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 427. A stiff, erect, hispid herb, 



, ln - m g»> with divaricate leafy branches. Leaves lanceolate, linear-lan- 



r>late or ^lanceolate, rather acute or obtuse, dentate or entire, \-\ in. long, 



oar y and hispid on both sides, with rough stellate hairs. Flowers in the 



■w of the upper leaves or extra-axillary.— Del. Fl. ^Egypt. t. 33. f. 3. 



IK I 1 ?? d< Nubia ' Neetonx (DC. I. c), Dr. Bromfield! 

 of thi • Belama < Nubi a. Speke and Grant ! An imperfect, leafless specimen, 

 in ll?? mes ; Tufts of it, " rolled into spheres, blow over the sandy desert." G 

 "Arabia and N.Africa. 



da*ed S *T 0babIc that the Allowing genera allied to Morettia, but differing in their appen- 

 \/n qUaS ' " la y be found in the deserts north of the equator :— 



mavK P v ' ( • twiense, Br.), occurring in the Canaries, N. Africa, and Arabia. It 

 fan lii- 1Stln S u ished by its linear leaves and short siliquas, terminating m a pair of short 



&* Presses. 

 ttZ?h ,Wf ! /l0ra > a N - Afr 'can genus, has subsessile siliquas, bearing a horn-like appendage 



2 ,. of the ba se. 

 Ale e '* '!*%" - (A - lierochuntica, Linn., the " Rose of Jericho "), of Arabia, Syria, and 

 fron, t^' ruits ve '-y short, bearing a round concave auricle on each side of the broad apex, 

 e ce,ltre of which projects the persistent subulate style. 



7- PAESETIA, Desv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 72. 



vai 6 ^ 13 . erect ' the ^eral slightly saccate. Petals with long claws. Siliqua 



Dlan! ln 0utline > fr ora l^ear to orbicular, flat-compressed or turgid, with 



e 0r c °nvex, nerved or nerveless valves. Stigma 2-fid or capitate with a 



probably 

 Grows also 



