Cardamine.] x. cruciferje. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 139 



\ 9. C. Griffithii, //. / 



leaflets sessilp. pnf.iPA nv « 



the base of the petiole, 



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nowers large deep lilac. Grif, Itin. Notes, 188, n. 996. 



.Wet places near Lamu In Bhotan, Griffith. 



Bootstoch creeping ; stem 1 ft., angled" and grooved. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, ovate 

 oblong or rounded.— The specimens have no flowers, but Griffith has recorded their size 

 and colour. 



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10. C. elegrantula, //./ ^ T. Journ. Linn, Soc. v. 146 ; very small, 

 annual, branched, leaflets linear-oblong in 5-7 remote pairs, flowers white 

 or rose, pods filiform. Hutchinsia sp. Grif. It. Notes, 195, u. 1079. 



Wet rocks Chuka in Bhotan, alt. 6500 ft., Griffith. 

 InW ^^^"' tender. Stem 2-3 in., slender. Leaves glabrous, pinnate ; leaflets petio- 

 P rrfi* ^^^'^' fleshv, linear-oblong, sublobed angled or quite entire. Bacemes 

 ^gtlieneJ, 2-9-flowered. PetaU white or rose, broadly clawed, thrice as long as the 

 ^i» glabrous sepals. Pods % in., narrow-linear, on very slender, filiform, spreading 

 yroopmg pedicels ; style short, a little narrower than the pods. 



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Ufl\^* ^acJ^opliyUa, WiUd. Sp. PI iii. 484; stout, erect, perennial, 

 leaflets ovate or lanceolate crenate-lobed or pinnatifid, flowers large white 

 fn., ^P 7|olet, pods with very thick margins. DC. Frodr. i. 152 ; //./. l' T. 

 2^^n.Linv. Soc. V. 145. C. polyphylla, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 201. Dentaria 

 aasyloba, Turcz. in Pull. Soc. Imp. Mosq. xxx. n. 103. 



Japa^^*^^'® Himalaya, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from Sikkim to Kashmir.— Distrib. N.Asia, 



Leafi 

 1 



Zh!^^^' 'f«<"«'«es erect, inaii7-flowered".""i'o(^ T-l A in.,''erect, tapering at both ends ; 



v!?r"i''' ^*^ •> style i in,' rigid. .. 



rate oif '^^^J^^^^^Ma ; lateral leafleta lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenat« or ser- 

 fioM?W ^^^^ ^^^S^ w'»»te or violet, pods 4-1 i in.— C. macrophylla, Led. ± L 



Var 9 ^"7*^''*''» Kumaon to Kashmir. .^^ . 



-liitp ^■/o^iosa; lateral leaflets narrow-lanceolate acuminate subpinnatifid, flowers 

 Kash" -rV^^^ ^"- P*^« coloured -C. foiiosa. Wall. Cat. 4779.— Kumaon and 



Var q 7 r smallest state of the species. , , , 



«Wfl '**'■ '^*^°ts ovate-lanceolate irresularly and coarsely lobed or cut, lobes 



WesS;.^!'? ^"*^ P«^« as in var. /oZiosa, but the plant larger.-Kashmir, 6000 ft.; 



Va 4 • '13,000 ft. • • 

 flowed 1 *^^"'"^««'« '• ta" and coarse, leaflets ovate-lanceolate obtusely serrate, 

 5 ^f Sikkim ^^^^''^P '^°'^^ Po^s large and broad If in. long pale brown.-Inner ranges 

 ' variety'^' ^^00-13,000 ft. (The Lepchas use the leaves and yonng stems of th>s 

 ' ^ a pot-herb.) 



^^Jl glabrous or slightly pubescent ; rootstock creepiiig ; stem simple, herbaceous, 

 r ohfn ' ^°^n ^^' striated. Leaves all pinnate ; leaflets i-3 in., S-5 pairs, acuminate 





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1 9. X.OXOSTEMON, H. f. & T. 



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Wves p/'^'''^ lender annual, with a few petiolate, usually 3-foholate, 

 ba.se ■ pi 7 f* ^"1^11, corymbose, lilac, ^^ewfe spreading, equal at the 

 Uiickenp?''? i^^^^^^y spathulate, clawed. Filaments of the long stamens 

 ^ lea at the tip and recurved. Pod linear ; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. 



^Sed^Ij!? *° Oardamine, but in the absence of ripe fruit its place cannot be 

 •^uea With certainty. . : 



si^^**?®"**' i/:/ ct 71 Jouni. Linn. Soc. v. 147. • Jj, : , 



r *««™eJdJ^'^ v^''^'"^ P^a<^eg, alt. 10-13,000 ft., J?! / '?^ ^ -,- i^V '-.n.«lWk 

 S« Sr i', ^^i^""™' fle^"ous glabrous, springing from a mass of toothed root-bulbils. 

 ^' S,2^^Jf^''^^t^' '^^fy i-i 2 n'aiS; leaflets subsessile.iinear, entire, apicu- 



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