Farsetia.] 



X. CRUciFER^. (Hook. £ & T. Anderson.) 



141 



4.' 



Lian,Soc. v. 147; Griff. Itin. Notes, 366, n. 11. F. ovalis, Boiss. Diag. viii. 

 32. F. Edgeworthii, H.f. & T. Journ. Linn, Soc. v. 147. 



PcNjAB, in the Salt range, Edgeworth, &c. — Distrib. Affghanistan, Arabia, N. AfricA. 



.A ngid, hoary undershrub, with forked virgate branches. Leaves linQ^r, Flowers 



spicate, distant. Calyx cyh'ndrical. Sepals j-^ in., hoary. Fetals linear, obtuse, 



twice aslong as the sepals. Fads 4-f by |-i in., erect, broad, elliptic-oblong; valves 



flat, midnb indistinct or sometimes prominent; style very short. >Seecf5 usually 2- 



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j^ 



12. AIiVSSVM, Linn. 



w 



Small branching herbs orundersbrubs. often rigid, pubescent, hoary, stel- 

 late or scaly. Leaves linear, entire. Flowers small, yellow or white, in ebrac- 



• if ^^^^^s. Sepak short, erect or spreading, equal at the base. Petals 

 ^th short claws, entire or 2-fid. Filaments often winged or with tooth-like 

 appendages, tods short, flattened parallel to the septum or turgid, orbi- 

 cular elhptic ovate obovate or oblong ; valves flat or concave or convex in 

 ^f^^^^''^ and flat at the margin ; septum membranous, entire or perfo- 

 rated; style varying in length. Seeds 2-10, flattened; cotyledons accum- 

 Dent.— Distrib. Species about 90, natives of S. Europe, Central Asia, and 

 Southern Siberia. 



Atyssum {Kmniya) maritimum is cultivated n gardens in N.-W. India. 



1 A 



nlin f ' minimum, Willd, Sp. PL iiL 464 ; leaves linear-oblong or 

 "ovate, hlaments winged, valve of pod tumid in the centre. Boi^. Fl. 

 ^mt L 281 ; //./. dc T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 148. 



JA8HMIR, alt. 4-6000 ft, T. Z— Distrib. Affglianistan, W. Asia, S. Europe, 

 fte hl^^^^ }•* ^'^^ numerous stiff stems or branches 6-8 in. long, spreading from 

 w sca?^* ^**cending, everywhere except the petals and pods covered with stellate hairs 

 En^ar V* ' ^'^^ many- flowered, lengthening dyinng flowering. Petals minute, 

 »8tKei7 r ^1 ''^^"^'J yellow. Filaments with entire or toothed wings. Pt^*as long 

 ir pedicels, orbicular, slightly notched, glabrous; style very short, acute. 



m ^' ^V^^^^^^^^ ^0' Prodr. i. 164; leaves narrow-linear, filaments 

 f J.,v^?.S^d' ^alve of pod flat. U, f. ^ T, Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 149. A. 



tenuif, 



canescens and 



DteTmT'S ^if^^laya in Kumaon, and Westeen Tibet, alt. 14-17,000 ft. ; T. T., &c. 



4 "• ,?• Liberia. 

 A small 



U-. 



ir 



L-4>. 



^--r 



Wl^Tuf/d^^^ I ^*^^'"^' ^^°^^^**^^® plant; woody stems short tufted. 



'vate,tw 



te, tome 



uiargined. 



Leaves 1 in., 



Bacemts corymbose, cloiigiting in the fruit. Petals 



Pods ^ in., erect, on short filiform 



J*«^'cel8 „7?^^f'*^^^^ ^^ '^"^ as the sepals, white. 



13. 



Linn 



P] r. 



6 '" 



^^Iv!^^^^^ ¥"^^s with stellatp pubescence, leaves entire, radical rosu- 

 »corvm£'^*^^^^^ ^^ yeUow, rarely purple, in short ebracteate racemes, 

 ^WssK ^^ short, eaual at the base. Petals entire or emarginate, 



ents simple. 



tr ; valves flat 



2-seriate, o\ 



Distrib. Species about 80, nati 



J. and of the Andes of S. America 



or 



'"ort 01 



?^«rt. f£ 



turgid, 



sar; valves flat, rarely convex; septum membraiious : style 

 's 2-seriate, ovoid, compressed, not margined ; cotyledons 



native^ of N. 



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