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' 3. K. indicum, DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 199 ; erect, radical leaves deep^ ^in- 

 natifid, flowers bracteate or ebracteate yellow, pods long narrow, Rj-^ 

 T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 138, N. madagascariense, W. d: A. Prodr. 19; 

 Wight III t. 13. N. heterophyUum, Blume Bijd. 50, Sinapis divancata, 

 ^0x6. Fl. Ind. iii. 123. ' . 



Common in damp places throughout India from Ceylox to Mishmi and Kashmir.— 

 DisTRiB. Malayan Archipelago; Philippines, China, Japan. ^ . 



A rough hairy or sometimes glabrous annual. /Stem 6-12 in., erect, stnatejl, 

 hranching from near the base. Lower leaves petioled, rarely entire, lobes general^ 

 toothed ; upper lyrate, frequently with small auricles. Eacemes long, many-nowerea. 

 Flowers smjdl. Petals equalling the sepals. Pods cylindric 4-| in., spreading or asceiiQ- 

 ing. Seeds very numerous, small, rugose, 2-scriate. — Some of the states of this vana e 



plant closely resemble N. palustre, but have longer and less turgid pods. - ■ j; „ 

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Silhet to Chittagong, Tenasserim. — (China.) 



4. K. montanum, Wall Cat 4778 {partly) ; radical leaves sinuate-rm' 

 natifid, flowers bracteate yellow, pods short turgid. H.f. <fr T. Jownu.U^^^ 

 Soc. V. 139. Sinapis pusilla, ^om i^/. Ind/iii. 125. : • 



Subtropical Himalaya from Sikkim to the Punjab, ascending to 7000 ft; the Khasu 

 HJLLS and BiRMA. — DiSTRiB. Java, China, Japan. . 



An annual much resembling N. iiidicum, but less robust, with larger smoother le 

 divided leaves. Pods I-I4 in., slender, not turgid. 



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Perennial or biennial branched leafy herbs with angled stems and lywiely 

 pinnatifid leaves. Flmvers yellow. Sepals suberect, subequal at the X^^ 

 Petals with a broad claw. Pod long, linear, compressed, 4-angled, ram' 

 seeded ; valves hard, stent-; usually strongly keeled. Seeds small, l-sena^^ 

 ovoid, without a margin; cotyledons accumbent. — Distkib. Species ab*)«* 

 20, chiefly European. 



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1. B. vulgraris, Br. Ilorl. Kew, 

 branched, pods strongly keeled. 

 Linn. Sac. v. 139. 



Temperate and subalpine Himalaya and W. Tibet; alt. 6-10,000 H.—^^^^^ 

 Europe, W. Asia, N. and S. Africa, Australia. .S.j 



Stiff, erect, smooth. AStems 9-18 in., furrowed, green, leafy. Lomer leaves P«"^|j^' 

 lyrate-pinnate, terminal lobe large suhrotuud; upper leaves sessile, obovate, en 

 sinuate or pinnatifid at the base, lowest lobes auricled stem-clasping. Pods 1'^* ! 

 numerous in a crowded raceme, narrow-linear, rigid; pedicels erect or spream 6» 

 style about Vt ^n . stout, straight. - ,3 



Var. 1. taurica, DC. Syst, ii. 207 (Sp.); upper leaves ovate entire or tooineu, 

 pedicels of the ripe pods almost horizontal, pods erect stout rigid a little ^J;^^ 

 style rather long and slender. Ortf, Itln, Notes 306 n. 1047-1503. B. Iberica, X*^ V' 

 208; B. arcuata, Beichenh. Ic, Fl Germ. t. 48 ; B. precox, Fries. Nov. 206, »^''f^- 

 Kew, (wo«o/o</w>r«).— Kashmir and W.Tibet, alt. 6-10,000 ft. (Aflghanistan, W.3 ^ 

 and throughout Europe.)— The fully ripe pods of Affghan specimens vary f^°™ .''LiBal 



Var. 2. sicula, Presl delic. Prag. (Sjf.)\ less robust, lower leaves Ij^ate, term^^^ 

 lobes ovate, lateral often wanting, upper leaves pinnate, segments linear, P^"^^® j jj 

 spreading, pods straight narrow compressed subtorulose, style short almost as ^^^^^ 

 the pod.— B. intermedia, Boreau Flor. Cent, France, ii. 40.— W. Tibet and Temp«'»^ 

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