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^ 4. C albiflorus, T. Anders, ; leaves subspathulate or linear-lanceolate 

 entire or sublobed, petals white, pods tomentose, style short. Cheiranthi 

 sp. i/./. (fc T. in Joum, Linn. Soc, v. 138, in note. 



Zanskarm West Tibet, alt. 12-16,000 ft., T, T, 



A small, hoary, minutely tomentose, tufted perennial. Stems slender, covered below 

 by withered petioles. Lower leaves loosely tufted ; upper linear-lanceolate, entire, 

 '^rely toothed. Flowers in short, close lacemes. Sepals linear, tomentose ; border 

 ^rrow, glabrous, ^ membranous. Petals spathulate, obtuse or slightly retuse, white. 

 Very young poffe linear, densely tomentose, many-seeded; style short, glabrous. 



4. ATEXiANTBERA, IT./. & T. 



A minute slender annual, slightly rough with bipartite appressed hairs, 

 i^m few, linear, entire. Flowers small, subsessile. Sepals erect, equal at 

 we base. Petals narrowly spathulate, emarginate. Anthers of all the 

 stamens with a short claw at the tip, of the long stamens 1-celled. Pod 

 miear, compressed; septum membranous: style short; stigma 2-lobed. 

 ^eds 1-seriate, flattened, without a border. 



1. A. perpusilla, H. f. <fe T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 138; pods few 

 erect nearly 1 in. long, valves faintly nerved. 



Zanskar in West Tibet, T. T. 



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J ^'^"'^stiial or aquatic, branclied, glabrous or Lairy herbs. Leaves entire 

 ^ or pinnatifid. Flowers small, yellow, rarely white, sometimes bracteate. 

 gOM short, spreading, equal at the base. Fetals short, narrowed at the 

 ^e, scarcely clawed, or 0. Stamens 2, 4 or 6. Fod long or short, almost 

 sh^Jl 'i calves faintly 1-nerved : septum thin, transparent ; style variable, 

 2 " • "'■ long and slender, stigma entire or 2-lobed. JSeeds small, Jturgid, 

 ahn.'iio^ ^/ ^'^^^Sularly l-seriate : cotyledons accumt 

 «wut 20, temp, and tropical. 



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wte'^T' T- ^- ' P^^'JAB. 'Ste^'^'^rt ; also found near all the hill statiouB, but pro- 

 i S//.m I u , -""^^^^iB. Affghanistan ; temp. Europe and Asia. . 



one Z 1 ^^^'iched. Leaves pinnate, the upper with 3-7 pinnules and a terrainal 



W ttT'.v"* '°*° ^ ^^P^"<1 segments. Flowers small, in short racemes. Petals 

 "»all. 2-aeriat ^^^'''^' ^^'^'^ ^~^ '"•' ^t^^''^^' spreading or bent upwards, beeds 



tifid ?r™ ^*?*'®' ^^' ^y^- y^9- ii- 191 ; suberect, radical leaves pinna- 

 A'^' pSo^? ebracteate yellow, pods short thick. N. terrestre, Br. in IIoH. 

 DZ'Pr'J' '\P^ \U.f.& T. Jmm. Linn. Soc. v. 168. N. heterophyUum, 



Ah A -^^P- 202. 



rtreirS^; '" ^^f Temperate Himalaya, ascending to 10,000 ft. ; and in N.W. India ; 



'S'ttnw„it*'^'^^^^«A^—DisTRiB. Many temperate regions. .,. ,, , , 

 "f^en 8inr, ; 'T'*^' «"g*i«ly hairy, liadical haves numerous, petioled ; lobes broad, 

 •*»««e de7n tr*^^'^' t«™i"*' larger, ovate-lanceolate, much toothed ; caulme sub- 

 nualliDB t& "^^^^^ °' pinnatifid. Flowers small. In long, lax racemes. Petals abon 

 o'deflex^ed '^P!,^'- ^'"^^ *-i ^n., slightly curved Uen rfp^, pedicels either horizontal 



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