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X. CHUCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Cardamine. 



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4. C. trlfollolata, H. f. & T. Journ Linn. Soc. v. 145 ; succulent, 

 leaflets subsessile Slobed, flowers pale lilac, funicles not winged. Onj' 

 It. Notes 121. iVo. 259. 



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Mossy streams in the forests of Bhotan, alt. 5500 ft., Griffith, ^ . ^ 

 A small fleshy annual ; rootstock short, creeping ; stems 4-5 in., simple, erect. 

 Badical leaves on long very slender petioles, leaflets small, rounded, sparsely nairy 

 above, glabrous beneath, lobes obtusely pointed ; cauline few, shortly petioled, some 

 tim^s simple. Hacemes subcorymbose, few flowered. Sepals small, obovate, glabrous, 

 margin membranous. Petals i in. lung, obovate, scarcely clawed. ^^ 



*** Radical leaves {or all) pinnatisect* 



S. C. Bubuxnbellata, HooL mss. ; perennial, young parts with spread- 

 ing liairs, leaflets petioled irregularly lobed and crenate, flowers small yel- 

 lowish-white, pods irregularly corymbose narrow lanceolate acute levr- 

 seeded. C. hirsuta var, subumbellata, Bahell in Hook. Kew Journ. i>«- 

 1852, 294. C. nilagirica, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohenack. No. 1493- 



Shaded woods in the Concan, Malabak, and Ceylon. 



sometimes solitary and axillary, 6~10-seeded. 

 dilated. 



jSeeds broad-oblong, remote; 



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)i^ 6. C. birsuta, Linn,^ var. sylvatica. Link, (sp.) ; annual, glabrous, le^* 

 lets petioled, petioles not auricled, flowers small white, stamens 6, poa 

 racemed erect acute or obtuse. C. hirsuta, H.f. d& T. in Journ. Linn. ^ 

 V. 146 ; Wall. Cat. 4780. C. debilis, Don Prodr. 201. 



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All temperate regions of India ; and a weed of the cold season in Bengal 

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Stem subcrect or decumbent, 3-12 in. Leaflets orbicular-ovate, toothed, and ^"S^^^jj 

 of the upper leaves narrow. Petals narrow, erect, twice as long as the very sm 

 sepals. Pods 4-1 in. ; style very short, except in var. oxycarpa. . V'ifg 



Var. oxycarpa (not C. oxycarpa, Boiss.); diflfusely branched, pods acuminate, s; 

 slender. — Hilly districts, common. ; , 



7. C. impatlens, Linn.; annual, erect, glabrous, leaflets shortly P^ 

 tioled, petioles auricled, flowers small white, stamens 6, pods erect. /''-'• 

 <{: T. Journ, Linn. 6'oc. v. 146; Grif. It. Notes 218, n. 99. C pectuiaw* 

 DC. Si/st Veg. ii. 264. 



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Temperate Himalaya from Sikkim to Kashmir, alt. 5-12,000 ft.- 

 tan, temp. Europe and Asia. 



Stems stifT, 6-12 in. Leaves pinnate; leaflets small, ovate-oblong or ^^"^®^**^y 

 obtusely ?-5 lobed ; auricles of the stem-leaves sagittate. Petals linear, erect, / 

 minute, white, often 0. Pods 1 in., erect, Very slender, linear, acute ; style subu i 

 valves smooth. - s .It 



8. C. pratensls, Linn. ; perennial, glabrous, leaflets in equidis^fj 

 pairs angled shortly ])etioled, flowers large white or Ulac, pods linear er 



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Hf. <Sc T. Jouim. Lmn. Soc^ v. 145. 



Hussora in Western Tibet, Winterhottom. 

 Abyssinia, N. America. , . '/ ' . lerf 



Stem 1 ft.; rootstock sometimes "bearing small fleshy tubers. Leaves P'"",*^^L|iTe« 

 lets of the radical leaves orbicular or ovate, terminal larger : those of the cauhne ^ 

 linear- oblong, entire. Flowers corymbose when ybuog. Pefafe spreading, three tim 

 long as the sepals. Pods 1 in. ; style short. -4- ^^ 



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