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terminal racemes. Fruiting racemes elongate ; pedicels \~^ in., spreading, as tHck as 

 the rachis: Fods \ in., straight or slightly curved; septum flat. Seeds very mmute, 

 oblong — Boisfcier remarks that the seeds are unknown. There are numerous ripe pods 

 in Griffith's specimens in the Kew Herbaiium. The cotyledons are incumbent. 



Sect. II. Sopbia. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, ebracteate. Pod cylindric 

 or flat, valves 1-nerved. 



12. S. Sophia, Linn. ; annual, erect, glabrous or pubescent, leaves 2-3- 

 pinnatisect, flowers small, pedicels slender. Reich. Ic. FL Germ, t, 74, 

 I. 4405; //. /. (£: T, Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 158. 



Punjab, in the Salt Range and near Peshawur; Temperate Himalaya from Kumaon 

 to Kashmik, alt. 5-7000 it. ; WEbXERN Tibet, alt. 9-14,000 ft.— Distkib. Westward, 

 throughout Europe, N. Africa, and in N. and S. AiTierica. . ..<:>■ , 



Stem 1-2 ft., finely lomentose and somewhat hoary, or quite glabrous; branches 

 ascending. Leaves numerous ; segments short, linear. Flowers small, pale yellow. 

 Fruiting racemes elongate, lax, terminal. Pods 1 in., spreading, or erect, on long pedi- 

 cels, cylindric, subcompressed, curved, subtorulose ; midrib prominent ; stigma suo- 

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Fruiting pedicels as broad as the pod. 



^ .^. _, Columnae, Jacq. FL Austr. t. 323 ; annual, tall, glabrous or Kamr 

 telow, leaves runcinate, sepals erect, valves of pod not ribbed. Bow. J*^* 

 Orient, i. 216; U.f. dc T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 157. 



Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, ascending to 10,000 ft. ; Western 

 Tibet, alt. 9-14,000 ft.— Distrib. Westward to Central Europe. : , ,..^ . 



Stem 3 ft., stout, erect, slightly branching, subhihpid with spreading or renexed ban^, 

 or nil glabrous and glaucous. Leaves sometimes almost entire ; segments tootned, 

 from ovate-oblong to lanceolate; terminal lobe angled; of the upper leaves hastate. 

 Flowers large, pale yellow. Sepals glahrous, iW^ 3-4 in., spreading, very slender, 

 curved, f^-labrous or slightly hairy ; pedicel very stout ; valves stnated, indistinctly cos- 



late; style thickened, ^ in. 



14. S. pannonicum 



hispid or dabrate. leaves 



nual, 



'oiss. FL Orient, i. 217 : if. t\ <k T. Journ 



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Stem rather tall, stiff, often simple below, and divaricately branched above. ^ J' 

 segments nearly all similar, toothed or entire, of the lower leaves broad, of ^H^T^jn ' 



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15. S. Zrio, Linn.; annual or Hennial, tall, glabrous, leaves runcinate 

 pinh&tifid, segments not auricled, flowers minute, pedicels slender, you»o 

 pods overtopping the raceme, old 3-nerved, stigma sessile. Jiekh. i<^- -v ■ 

 Germ. t. 75 f. 4408 , H. f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 157. S. irioides, Houn- 

 FL Orient, i. 218; H.f. & T. Journ. Linn.lSoc.\. 167.''' -^ ■ "^?"' '^; - . 



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