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Branching herbs, pubescence simple or stellate. Leaves entire orpmna- 

 tifid. Flowers in lax racemes, white or purple. Sepals erect, equal at the 

 base. Petah linear, claws long. Filaments free, the longer ones sometimes 

 united in pairs. Pot/5elongate,cylindric, hard and dehiscing late; peduncle 

 usually thickened; valves 3-nerved ; septum membranous* stigma erect, 

 lobes often united into an acute cone or decurrent along the short style. 

 Seeds 2-seriate towards the base of the pod, oblong, not margined ; coty- 

 ledons incumbent. — Distrib. About 20 specieSj natives of W. Asia and tne 

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1. M. afrlcana, Br. Hart. Km. ed. 2, iv. 121 ; leaves oblong or lancejh 

 late toothed, flowers many small, pods straight hispid. DO. Prodr. l 18/ ; 

 Griffith Itin. A^o^<?5 260, No. 513; H.f. & T. in Joiirn. Linn. Socr. 155.^ 



Fields and waste places in the Punjab, Kashmir, and Western Tibet, a8cenain| 

 to 13,000 ft.— DiSTRiB. W. Asia, Mediterranean region. - . 



Stout, leafy, annual, l^ft., rough with stiff forked and simplehairs; branches many, long, 

 ^•omewhat spreading. Leaves 1-6 in., petioled. Flowers near the ends of the ^£^"^51* 

 Petals obovateoblong, twice as long as the persistent sepals, purple or white. FruUtng 



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Bize 01 ine leave?, ana length and thickness ot the pedicels and pods. — A veij •" j. 

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2. Sf. torulosa, Poiss. Fl. Orient, i, 225 ; leaves narrow* toothed ^^P^^ 

 natifid, flowers small, pods torulose usually contorted or recurved. Si^y^"' 

 brium torulosum^ Desf. Fl Atlant ii. 84, t. 159 ; DC Prodr. I 195 ; ^-J' 

 A T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 163. S. contortuplicatuin, DC Prodr. Ic 



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Punjab at Peshawur, ^Sfeitari.— Distrib. Westwards to Syria and N, Africa. 



A depressed annual or biennial, with numerous spreading and ascending fltift b 

 branches, 6 or 8 in. loTig, hispid with stiff spreadnig simple or forked hairs, ra^/^ 

 glabrous. Radical leaves 1- 3 in., numerous, obh.ng-Ianceolate. acute; c^"''""^ L^rl 

 and less divided. Flowers small, subsessile, whUe. Pods \-\ in-, o" ^^^Unnff 

 thick pedicels, slender, straight recurved or contorted, hispid. Seeds small, oDi 5» 

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a W- Btrig^osa, Poiss. Fl Orient, i. 224 ; glabrous or hispid below ^^ 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate repand or toothed, pods 1-1 1 in. \ong.—tij*^ 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 155. 



In the Salt range, Punjab, Fleming, Stewart.— DiwimJi, Affghanistan, Belucbis a 



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^ A stout, depressed or suherect, rough, hairy aribual, soon dividing into a (if 

 rigid short brandies G-18 in. long. Padkal leaves long petioled, spreading 

 ground, 2 or 3 in. long; cauline shorter and more entire. '^'-"•^^» nnni«#oll«, 

 in racemes 2-12 in. Petah about \ in., sometimes twisi 



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