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A small, stiff depressed, branched, hoary herb, with bipartite adpressed 

 pubescence. Flowers white, in leaf-opposed racemes. Sepals equal at the 

 base. Petals small, linear-oblong. Pod rigid, almost indehiscent, linear- 

 oblong, terete ; valves with a prominent keel prolonged at the tip into a horn ; 

 internally pitted opposite the seeds ; style short ; stigma capitate, oms 

 1-seriate, small, compressed, wingless ; cotyledons accumbent. 



1. N- CanaHense, Br. in H(yrt Kew, ed. % iv. 117; Griff. It'm* ^ot. 

 230, n. 225 ; H,f. d: T. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 147. N. hispauicum, i^O.; 

 Beless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 17. - 



Fields and sandy places in the Punjab, Vicary, &c.— Distrib. Westward to tte 

 Canary Islands, \. 



Stems 6-8 in., spreading and branching from the base. Leaves Mnes^T-ohhng, entire. 

 Jiacemes short, many-flowered. Sepals covered with adpressed hairs. Pods 4 in., su 

 sessile, erect, hoary. Seeds 4-8. 



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11. FAaSETZA, Desv. 



Hoary or tomentose much branched twiggy undershnibs or herbs. Leaves 

 small, hnear-oblong, entire. Flowers white pink or yellow, spiked or raj 

 cemed. Sepals erect, connivent, lateral saccate at the base. Petals with mo 

 claws Pods sessile, linear or elliptic, much flattened ; valves convex, plaue 

 or with a midrib ; septUm membranous. Seeds 1-2-seriate, suborbicuia^ 

 broadly wnnged ; cotyledons accumbent. — Distrib. About 20 species, nar 

 tives of S. Europe, W. Asia, and N. Africa. :^ - " 



1. r. Jacquemontil, H. f d: T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 148; flo^ew 

 large, buds elliptic, sepals acute, pods narrow-linear. Griff. Itin. Notes, ii^ 

 n. 105. 



Sandy places in the Punjab and Sindh.— Distrib. AflFffhanistan and Beluclnstan. 

 An erect, rather rigid, hoaiT '' , .., ,^ , . _.:i i,.:.. attached 



at their middle. Stems 12 



linear. Sepals strigose. Pe 



compressed ; valves flat, nerveless or faintFy 1-nerved ; stigma short, suberect. ^^ 



2-seriate — It is impossible to determine from Burnian's figure whether this is the -ar 



heleopliila,D(2, 



2. P. Hamlltonii, Royle III, 71 ; flowers small, buds small subglobosc, 

 sepals obtuse. //./. d: T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 148. F. linearis, De^is^y" 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. % xvii. 150 ; llook. Ic. PL t. 808. Cheiranthus Farseu-^ 

 Wall. Cat. 4081. Arabia incanescens, MunrOy Plants of Agra, 6. . 



Upper Gangetic plain and the Punjab, from Agra Westwards.— Uist^^^' 

 ghanistan, Arabia, Algeria. 



More rigid and woody than F, Jacquemontii, covered with denser and finer ci^v 

 adpressed pubescence; branches long, erect, virgate. Leaves linear, ^^^^J^^-^g a 

 Flowers in li)ng spicate racemes. Sepals strigose, margins scariuus. Petals *^^%g^| 

 little longer than the sepals, pink. Pod ^-1 by ^V in., linear; valves al"^^^/^^^';- y^ 

 septum transparent; style slender. Seeds l-seriate.— Closely allied to F. ^^^^^-l.^ris, 

 Dene., of Egypt and Arabia, but has smaller flowers and shorter pods.^ Jmefl' 



Dene., is certainly identical with the Indian plant although the Algerian speci 

 have a slightly longer style, and a more 2-lobed stigma. ' 



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 large, buds cylindric, sepals obtuse, pod elliptic-oblong. //./«: i.«' 



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