Seneltiera.] vnr. crucifer/E (oliver). 71 



narrowed below, entire or minutely toothed. Flowers numerous, minute, in 

 slender, terminal or leaf-opposed, racemes. Silicules didymous, each valve 

 subglobose, reticulate-wrinkled.— & linoides, DC. ; Harv.'et Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 ».27. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Peters (Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb.) : Europa Island, 

 MM*. Channel, Speket 



m appears to be a widely-spread coast species, occurring about Capetown, in Mada- 

 gascar, islands of the Chinese Sea, and N.E. Australia. 



«'«ywa, Pers., differing from S. integrifolia in having prostrate, more or less hairy 



ems and leaves all pinnatipartite, is a very common and widely dispersed weed, which may 



«e expected as a waif upon the shores of tropical Africa. S. Coronopus, DC., with scarcely 



marginate silicules, also prostrate, with pinnatifid leaves and deeply wrinkled fruits, is likely 



■ occur m waste places. 



18. CRAMBE, Linn. ; Beuth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 98. 



oepals more or less spreading. Silicules separated by an articulation into 

 »o articles; the upper globose, 1-locular, 1-seeded, with a sessile stigma; 

 be lower minute, seedless and pedicel-like. Seed globose, radicle incum- 



■W on the conduplicate cotyledons.— Glabrous glaucous or pilose herbs, 



"mnetimes shrubby. Leaves ' lyrate or toothed. Eacemes elongate, simple 



or pamcled, ebracteate. Flowers white . 



Island 6 "" 8 ° f 10 to 20 s P ecies > confined chiefly to Europe, Western Asia, and the Atlantic 



Stem»Si eaVe8nioreorlesshis Pid-P>lose \. C. hispanica 



m and le aves glabrous, glaucescent 2. C. sinuato-derdata. 



orl' C u his P a nica, Linn.; DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 655. An erect herb, more 

 t * ss ^spid-pilose below, attaining 1-4 ft. Lower leaves lyrate or reduced 

 he large rounded or cordate, terminal lobe, hispid. Cauline ovate or lan- 

 Z ] ? Pf tio,at e or narrowed below, unequally dentate. Racemes pamcled ; 

 \ lateral axillary ones usually considerably shorter than the primary axis.— 

 <"****, Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



AllJfc* 4 ' Ab y ss 'nia, Schimper! 

 Jle diterranean species. 



ere!t 2* , sinuat o-dentata, Hochst. in Schimp. PL Abyss. A slender, 

 l ate ' PfWXw, glaucescent herb. Cauline-leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 foruT f or sub acute, toothed ; the lower petiolate. Racemes simple or 

 urKe( i, elongate. 



This 6 ,,! f d- Ab yssinia, Schimper ! , . ,„ 



"at the f appears different fn>m *W other s P ecies wllich * have 9eeU " ,8 P 

 acemes become panicled in more luxuriant specimens. 



9 - Ejf ARTHROCAEPUS, Labill. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 99. 

 J*B*k erect, equal at the base or the two lateral saccate. Siliquas elon- 

 >n(lei, Ia d ' so,newha t compressed, separated by an articulatum into two 

 SeedS ent , articIes ; the lower article shorter, with connate valves 1-4- 

 " ued > seeds pendulous ; upper article 3-6-seeded, seeds erect. Rad.cle 



