62 viii. crucifer.e (oliver). [Faraetk. 



short or long style. Seeds compressed, often winged, in 1 or 2 series. Ra- 

 dicle accumbent.— Branched, often virgate herbs, sometimes shrubby, often 

 hoary with appressed hairs. Leaves linear or narrow, entire. Flowers ra- 

 cemose or spicate, white purple or yellow. 



A genus of 15 to 25 species, inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean, W. Asia to 

 N. India and N. Africa. 



Siliqua linear, with straight margias. 



Annual. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute. Kacemes lax, elongate. 



Siliqua 1-2 in. ; median nerve obscure . 1. F. grandiflora. 



Annual. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse. Siliqua with prominent 



median nerve 2. J*, stenoptera. 



Suffruticose below. Leaves narrow-linear. Flowers distant, in 



spicate racemes. Siliqua with faint median nerve 3. F. lonytstltqua. 



Suffruticose. Flowers densely spicate ; buds elliptic-oblong. Sepals 



acute 4. F. Boivim. 



Siliqua linear with undulate margins. Flowers densely spicate ; buds 



subglobose 5. F. ramosissima. 



Siliqua elliptic-oblong. Rigid shrub : 6. F. tegyptiaca. 



1. F. grandiflora, Fourn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. xi. 55. A slender, erect, 

 pale annual, with appressed mediofixed hairs, and usually ascending, virgate 

 branches. Leaves narrow-linear, 1-3 in. long. Sepals rather acute. Stigma 

 2-fid. Siliquas linear, compressed, 1^—2 lines broad, erect, on very short 

 pedicels ; persistent styles \-l\ lines long ; valves flat, with a faint median 

 nerve, hoary with minute appressed hairs. — F. stenoptera, Hohenack. Distr. 

 PI. Schimp. (2261). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, in monutains, Schimper ! Kordofan, Kotschy (Fournier). 

 F. Jacquemontii, Hook. f. et Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 148, is a very near ally of 

 this species. 



2. P. stenoptera, Hoclist.; Fourn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. xi. 56. Annual, 

 virgate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse. Flowers laxly spicate, elliptic- 

 oblong in bud, with acute, whitish sepals. Stigma 2-lamellate. Siliqi' a 

 (immature) laterally curved, with a very prominent nerve. 



Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy (Fournier). 



I have not seen this plant, and borrow the description from Fournier. 



3. P. longisiliqua, Becaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. iv. 69. Suffruti- 

 cose, hoary with closely appressed white hairs ; branches slender, rather rigi". 

 divaricate. Leaves very narrow-linear. Flowers rather distant, in narrow, 

 spicate racemes ; buds oblong. Pedicels at length 1-2 lines, appressed or 

 ascending. Siliquas 1 in. more or less, slightly curved outwards, linear, lf- 

 1£ lines broad ; valves hoary, undulate, with a faint midrib. Persistent style 

 about 1 line long. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth ! and in Arabia. 



I have not seen a type specimen, but take the name as I find it in the Nubian distribution 

 of Dr. Schweinfurth. It appears to me doubtfully distinct from F. Hamiltoniana, Royle. 



4. P. Boivini, Fourn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. xi. 56. Suffruticose, with as- 

 cending, slender branches. Leaves very narrow-linear, often convolute. 

 Siliquas straight. 



