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[Parrya. 



margins; petiole loTig, base sheathing. Scapes pilose, thick, sometimes bearing 1 or 2 

 smaS leaves. Pod8%-\\ in., tapering into the short thick style; valves thm, conveX; 



not veined, midrib distinct. Seeds few. 



4. P. lanugrinosa, //./, c& T. Joum, Linn, Soc. v. 136; leaves spathu- 

 late coarsely toothed, scapes woolly 8-12-flowered, pods ovate-lanceolate, 

 seeds not winged. 



West Tibet ; in Gugi, alt. 17,500 ft., Strach. & Winterb, , 



Small, densely woolly. Scapes erect, 2 in. ; flowers small, racemose. Sepals spreading, 



woolly. Petals broadly spatlmlate, undulate or crisped. Pods acute, about | in., ouW 



line waving ; septum very narrow, sometimes 0, 



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Hoary herbs, or undersbrubs, with appressed bipartite hairs. Leav^ 

 oblong-linear, entire or toothed. Flowers large, yellow or purple, racemea. 

 Sepals erect, lateral saccate at the base. Petals clawed. Pod 4-anglea, 

 Compressed; valves 1-nerved ; septum membranous; stigmatic-lobes snort:, 

 spreading. Seeds 1 -seriate, flattened, without a border ; cotyledons accuni- 

 bent, very rarely imcumbeut.— Distrib. Species about 12, natives of temp* 

 Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia, and arctic America. 



The Wall-flower, C. Cheiri, is cultivated in gardens in N. India, but la not indigenous. 



1. C. parryoidesy Kurz, mss. (name only) ; hoary, leaves linear-oblong 

 entire all radical, flowers purple, style ^in. 



West Tibet ; in Spiti, Stoliczka. * a A i 



Booistock covered with withered petioles. Leaves all radical, 2-3 in., rounded a 

 the tip, clothed with fine dense tomeutum. Scapes about 9 in., many-flowered, elo 

 gating during flowering. Pedicels ^-1 in., erect, tomentose. Sepals ^ in , hair}^ P"T*j' 

 with a glabrous narrow membriinous fringe.'. Petals ^ in., claw and base of *"®^^ . 

 dark purple. PocZs (immature) curved and undulate, densely tomeutose; style ii » 

 glabrous, , . > 



2. C. himalayensis, CamK in Jacq. Voy. Pot 14, t. 13; leaves lineaj- 

 spatbulate entire lobed or rarely subpiiinatifid, flowers violet or P^^^^^ » 

 pods hairy, stigma sessile. ^ ' * ' ' ^^ .^ - ^ t t...^ . nr. . 



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West Tibet; amongst rocks and loose stones, alt. 16-17,000 ft. _y, 



Bootstoch much divided. Stems 2-6 in., numerous, leafy, tomentoee. Leaves ^^ . 



what tufted. Flowers numerous, in rather dense tenninal racemose heads, irag^ . 



Sepals short, lanceolate, obtuse, lateral scarcely saccate at the base. Petals ^^^^^ j/ 



length of the sepals, broadly spathulatc, retuse. Pods f-14 in., luiear, cumprebse t 



valves with thickened margins. Seeds numerous, 8uh2 seriate. 



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3. C. Stewartii, T, Anders, • leaves spathulate toothed at the tip 

 flowers bufl"then purple, pods glabrous, stigma sessile. 



West Tibet, near Ladak, at 15-16,500 ft. elevation, Stewart. - Cf^ 



Like the preceding but diifering in its glabrous pods and IcbS divided leaves. ^ ^^^ 

 numerous, slender, erect in flower, depressed and spreading in fruit. Lower ^ 

 4-1 in., subcoriacecus, woolly; upper smaller, linear, entire. Bacemes ^^*^^"Vi„te 

 capitate, fruiting 3 in. Sepals oblong, ^V 5n. Petals \ in., broadly «P?;^^^J,„g'; 

 Pods 1-1 4 by ^ in., erect, secund, linear, taptiringatboth ends; valves ^^U^^y^^^^ ^ 



btigma broad ; midrib and re ticidated veins distiiict. &edf5 small, ovate-oblongj 

 2 -seriate ; cotyiedontt accumbent, \ , , , 



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