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23. BRAVA, Sternb. & Hoppe. 



bmall tufted glabrous or hoary pubescent alpine perennials, with a 



wif j"^r^^^*^^*^^^' ^^^^^^ mostly radical, spathulate or linear, entire or 

 *oothed. Flowers purple, rose-coloured or white, solitary or racemed. Sepals 

 lvJ\h ^^ ^^ *^® ha^e. Fods ovate-oblong or linear, subcylindric or 

 Biigjitly compressed ; valves convex, 1-nerved ; style short or long ; stigma 

 ^pitate. Seeds usually 2-seriate, few or many ovoid, wingless.— Disteib. 

 •^pecies 12, alpine and arctic regions, the Andes. 



U^' ^' ^^iflora, //./ d^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 168 ; glabrous, leaves 



™ear-spathulate quite entire, scapes short 1-flowered. .^^a.-r \ : -; 



Western Tibet ; in Nubra, alt. 15-17,000 ft, Thomson^ ' ' ■'^' 



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Le (\ f ^^^^^' fl®=='V» covered with bleached petioles, branched at the. crown. 

 aye« tleshy, i in,, petioled. Scapes many, about equalling the leaves.' J^oc^ linear, 

 3-i Jn.; septum 2-nerved; style short. Seeds sub-2-seriate, many. ■ . 



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-t B. alplna, Sternb. d; Hoppe; glabrous, leaves linear-spathulate, 

 nowers capitate. Beless. Ic. Select, il t. 22. B. Thomsoui, H. /. in Journ. 

 ^inn.boc. v. 168. B.? oxycarpa, //./. c& T. I.e. 169. 



lii.rif^T''^ Tibet; Piti, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Thomson, Stewart.— Bisirib. European 

 "•iJh Alps, arctic regions. ■ 



lineaH ^'°"** ^^^^^' ^°^°- ^^"■^^^ tufted, 4 in. Scapes 1-4 in., leafless, or with few 

 lanceni t ^°' r^"'^''* "'I'i'e or purple ; pedicels J in. Pods erect, linear- or elliptic- 

 1 2 RP • f *''?'s'it or carved, acute, glabrous; style usually long and slender. Seeds 

 -Beriate.— Yery variable ; the arctic American B. glabella is hardly distinct from it. 



W?" '**-®,*» ^ tinge; Led. Fl. Ross. i. 194; glabrous or puberulous, 

 ellir.T? narrowly linear-oblong, flowers crowded corymbose, pods very short 

 '^m. H.f.^T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 169. 



lit i4°fa Si!f ?^*>'*' ^™°i SiKKiM to KoNAWOE, alt. 15-17,000 ft. ; Western Tibet,, 



Ver^ • V^ "•— ^iSTRiB. Altai Mts. and arctic Siberia, 

 scapes- T y '° ^- ^^P^'^°> differing chiefly in the shorter pods (f-i in.), and leafless 



t^-ZJecdo 8-12 in each capsule; style variable in length. ' 



IjJceS' f*^«*4ca. a.f.&T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 168; hoary or pu- 

 minufl 7^^ narrow-linear, scapes naked, flowers subcapitate, petals 

 "^We, pods short ovate. ' ^ . ' 



KaSfV^i^^'^: alt. 13-18.000 ft., 2T^om5on. , , 



WteJ^lr f ' P"T*isti; rootstock much divided, clothed with withered petioles, 

 ciiiate t1 \ ^""^^-^ spathulate, with 2-3 spreading teeth about the mi.irib ; margins 

 •"embmnr. ^ glabrous. Scapes many, 2-2^ in., rarely 1-leafed. SepaU hairy, edges 



glabrouo !' r , *® °'' '■^d- ^«'a^« tardly exceeding the sepals. Pods ^ in. long, rarely 

 », style long. 



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24. BB.ASSXCA, Liun. 



^ifid JrW^^f ^"^ ^mi^ herbs ; rootstock often woody. Leaves large, pinna- 

 "f spread; ' i^^^^^^ entire. Flowers yellow, in long racemes. Sepals erect 

 *»gular Jv' ^^^^^'^ usually saccate at the base. . Fods elongate, terete or 

 'lerved l..f . ^"^ a^ indehiscent 1-seeded beak ; valves convex, 1-3- 



d. lif T • *" inaeniscent i-seeaea oeaK; vaivco >uu.ca, 



- XeH i ^^""^^^ fi^^^^se ; style beaked or eusitbrm; stigma trun 

 bent coin ' 1-seriate, globose or subcompressed ; cotyledons mcum- 

 ^^l^l&m sL".'' conduplicate, the radicle WAtl^iii the longitudinal fold. 



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