156 X. CRUCiFERiE. (Hook, f. & T. Anderson.) [Brassicd 



Sect, L Melanosinapls. /S'^pa/^ spreading. Fods terete or sub-tetra 

 gonal ; valves 1-nerved ; beak slender, seedless. 



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1. 8. nigrra, Koch; leaves all petioled, lower lyrate, Tipp^ entire, 

 racemes naked, pods slender appressed to the stem. II. f- & T. in Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. v. 170. Sinapis nigra, Linn.; WaU. Cat 4790. S. erysimoides, 

 Moxk FL Ind. iii. 123. > 



Cultivated in various parts of India and Tibet. , _ ' 



Annual, 2-3 ft. high, rigid, branched, more or less hispid. Leaves \-^ in. -^^.""^J* 

 J-i in. diam , bright yellow. Pod \-\ in., subulate ; valves keeled, torulose ;■ cells 6- 

 6-seeded. &£</« oblong. , , ,£; .,. 



Sect. II. Eubrasslca. SepaU erect. Fod sessile, cylindric, beak or 

 conical, seedless; valves 1-nerved. (The Cabbage, B. oleracea, with its cul- 

 tivated forms, the Kale, Sprouts, Cole-rabi, Cauliflower and Broccoli, belong 



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2. B. campestris, Linn. ; erect, lower leaves lyrate, upper auncieu, 

 flowers cormybose, beak of pod flat seedless. IJ. /. <& T. in Jonrn. Linn. 

 Soc.. V. 169. Sinapis brassicata, Linn. S. dichotoma and S. glauca, if(^^- 

 FL Ltd. iil 117, 118. 



Cultivated throughout India. ft "h* li 



An erect, stout, simple or branched, glabrous or slightly hispid annual, 1-3 ^ *^*^ ' 



flowers 



Leaves large, petioled, more or less pinnatifid, upper oblong or lanceolate. J^io 

 large, bright yellow; pedicels | in., ascending or spreading. Pods 14-3 in,, ^y"^? ' 

 suberect; valves with midrib and flexuous veins. Seeds small, smooth, pale ^.^, ^^^^ 

 SuBSP. 1. CAMPESTRIS proper; root tuberous, leaves glaucous, radical hispid, uppe 

 glabrous, petals persistent till the corymb lengthens. — {Swedish Turnip) ^ ^.^ ■ .j_' 

 Y SuBSP. 2. Napus, Linn, (sp); root fusiform, leaves all glabrous and ^^^^^^^^*ff^.J 

 deciduous before the corymb lengthens.— (^ope, CoZe seed; yields Colza and tor 



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y^ SuBSP. 3. Rapa, Linn, (sp.) ; root tuberous, lower leaves hispid not glaucous, upi* 

 glaucous and glabrous, petals deciduous.— Commo/i Turnip. 



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3. B. trilocularls, H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 170 ; lowerjeav^^ 

 lyrate, cauline amplexicaul auricled, pods pendulous long-beaked *> 

 valved. Sinapis trilocularis, Roxb. FL Lid. iii. 121. . , - ; ^:^ -^ ' " 



Subtropical Central and Eastern Himalaya, Nipal, Sikkim, and Assam, ^^.^^^^^'3^ 

 Habit of subspecies Napus, but easily distinguished by the remarkable P®'^*.^" . i^es 

 celled and valved pods, which are 2^-3 in. long; heak 1^ in., terete, tapering; v^ 

 with midrib and flexuous lateral nerves. Seeds large, globose, smooth, pale or aa v 



4. B. qnadrivalvis, H.f. d^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 169 ;haWt?^^ 

 foliage of j5. trilocularis, but pods smaller, on erect short pedicels, ^^--r 





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and valved, beak flattened. , , .y 



Cultivated fields of B. campestris in the Upper Gangetic valley; banks^ 



Soane, -/-^ /. , . . 



Sect. IIL Brasslcoldes. -SVpaZs erect. Poc& sessile, beak seed-beanng ? 

 valves 1-ribbed. V". _ 



^ 5. B. Toumefortii, Gouan ; Boiss. FL Orient i. 393 ; ^^^^{^^ jiow, 

 hispid runcinate-lyrate, cauline linear-lanceolate, flowers small pale y ^^^ 

 pods short compressed. B. Stocksii, H.f. dc T. in Journ. Linn. hoc. -^^^ 



'^ Upper Gakgetic valley; between A jmir and J)e\^\y Jacqnemonij Westb* 

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