148 x. CRUC1FER.E. (Hoolc, f. & T. Anderson.) [SisymMum, 



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stellate hairs. Stem erect, witli numerous spreading^ or ascending stiff Lranclies. _ Leam 

 radical petioled ; upper clasping the stem by sagittate auricles. Fods l-l|in. long, 

 terete, straight ; pedicels short, stout, spreading, each with a leaf-like bract ^ at the 



base ; valves striate, 



3. S. follosum, H.f.<kT. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 160; sparsely hairy 



leaves broad toothed, flowers racemed glabrous, pods slender curved gla- 

 brous much compressed. ' ' 





Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, ' '^ ^ a }) in 



A sulerect or decumbent herbaceous much branched annual, with scattered stellwe 

 hairs, 6-12 in. hiiih. Radical leaves soon withering, spathulate, shortly petioled; 

 cauh'ne larger, 1-2^ in. long, oblong or obovate, sessile, auricles long sagittate stem- 

 clasping, coarsely toothed. Flowers small, white, ebractrate ; pedicels \ in., slender, 

 usually spreading, sometimes ascending or deflexed. Pods l| in., in long_ raceme^ 

 spreading, ascending or the lower sometimes deflexed, straight or curved, with a le 

 stellate hairs j valves thin, flattened, striate. '^^ '.^ 



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** Leaves not pinnatifid ; cauline not sagittate or aurided. 



4. S. Thalianum, Gai/ & Mann, in Gaud. Fl. Helv. iv. 348 ; annu'il, 

 radical leaves petioled obovate, flowers small white, pedicels very ^^^""^' 

 pods very slender suberect curved glabrous compressed, seeds flattened. 

 Boiss. FL Orient, i. 214; H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 163. Arabu 

 Tbaliana, Zm». ; DC. Prodr. i. Ui; Conringia Tlialiaua, Beich. ic/'- 

 Germ. t. 60, f. 4380. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan to Kashmir, and in Western Tibet; an. 

 5-10,000 ft. ; Punjab, Stewart. — Distrib. Temp. Evnope, Asia, Abyssinia. 



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cauiine lew, remote, sessile, generally entire, -Racemes slender, elongate, p'uiw>. 

 }-4 in., spreading or ascending. Fods J-1 in., narrow linear ; valves convex, 1-nerve 

 style short. Seeds very small ; cotyledons obliquely incuujbent. . . - j -■■ 



5. S. lasiocarpum, //. /. <i: T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 163 ; annual, slen- 

 der, erect, hispidly pubescent, leaves snmll radical obovate-spathulat » 

 flowers lilac, pedicels short, pods short straight terete densely pubescen 

 GriJUh I tin. Azotes 188, No. 99 L 



Lamraoo and Panya in Bhotax, (?n^iA. ■ . -^ 



Simple, rigid, 9-18 in., hoary and pubescent with mixed simple and stellate nai 

 Radical leaves \-\ in. long, few, shortly petioled, sinuate-toothed ; cauline smal'i ses » 

 obovate. Floioers small. Sepals pubescent. Pods | in., erect ; valves convex, ne 

 less ; st)'le very short, ' . 



6. S. rupestre, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx, 33; annual, erg 

 branched, hoary, radical leaves linear-oblong sinuate-toothed, ^^^\^ 

 sometimes cordate at the base, flowers shortly pedicelled, pods subter 

 glabrous or puberulous, slender. ILf. d^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. l^^^ 



In the dry region of the Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, a**-. 

 14,000 ft.; Piti in Western Tibet, Thomson. -^|e5. 



Stem 6-18 in., stiff, branching; hairs forked, with a few scattered stellate o ^ 

 Radical leaves shortly petioled, 4-1 in. ; cauline sessile, entire or toothed. ^^^ 

 few-flowered, bracteate ihrojijihout or towards the base; fruiting elongate, lax. *^\i^_ 

 purple or white. iSe^aZ* pubescent; pedicels i\-J in., puberulous. Pods ikr^i 

 erect or spreading, compressed ; valves with an indistinct central vein. 



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■^:7. S.lramUe, G. A. Mey. in Led. FL Alt. iii. 137 ; perennial, ^^^ 

 Boary, diffuse, radical leaves oblung, cauline petioled, flowers shortv ^ 









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