

Brassica.] x. CRUCiFER^. (HooTc. f. & T. Anderson.) 157 



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An erect, branching, hispid or glabrate annual, 1 ft. high. Badical leaves petioIeJ, 

 crowded, spreatiing on the ground, hispid with white hairs, lobes toothed ; cauh'ne 

 emireor pinnatifi.l. Pods 2| in., erect, glabrous, linear, compressed, torulose, beak 

 f in,^ linear, slightly tapering, obtuse, usually 1 seeded ; valves with a central and many 

 distant lateral nerves. Seeds compressed. 



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Sect. IV, Ceratosinapls. Sepals spreading. Pods slightly compressed, 

 beak subulate usually seedless ; valves 3-ribbed. Seeds globose. 



6. B. junceaf H,f. <k T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 170; erect, glabrous, 

 lower leaves oHong-lanceolate toothed, upper narrow, pods suberect 

 torulose, beak long seedless, lateral nerves flexuous. B. Willdenovii, Bms\ 

 f ^m. Sc. Nat 18^2, p. 88. Siuapis juncea, Zm;i. S. integrifolia, WUld, 

 ^ rampsa, rugosa, and cuneifolia, Jioxb. Fl Ind. iii. 119-124. , 



tuUivated in India abundantly. — Distkib. Cult, westward to Egypt, and eastward 



A tall erect branching anmial, rarely glaucous, or hispid (at the base only). Lower 

 ffi't5 petioled, sometimes pinnatifid ; upper lanceolate, toothed, subsessile. Flowers 



fright yellow. Pods { in., linear-lanceolate ; beak straight, flattened, 4 in. ; valves with 



a prominent midrib. Seeds small, dark, rugose. 



se-nn** ^^^a, ff.f, <£• T. ; stem hispid, leaves pubescent pinnatisect, upper 

 segments confluent, pods spreading cylindric torulose usually hirsute, beak 

 ^ery long decurrent along the pod, I-seeded. B. foliosa, Willd, Emm, 68H. 

 '^inapis alba, Zmw. ° ^^ 



Cultivated fields at Ferozepore la the Punjab, TAomson.— Distrib. From Syria 

 eastward throu^^bout S. Europe 



Peti'l V^'^^ annual, 2 ft. high, with a hispid or rarely glabrous stem. Leaves all 

 «alt7] ^^"*"Z hispid; segments ovate, toothed or lobulate. Pods ab ut 1 in., 

 Kea^ spreading, cylindric, beak half as long, flattened, sometimes 2 seeded, valves 

 ^^^base of the beak white with hispid hairs. 



Suiapis patens, Roxh. Fl Ind, iii. 124, is a Nasturtium. 



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linw'^^^ ^^ biennial branching herbs. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers yellow 



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comnJp P"JP^®- ^^Pah spreading, equal at the base. Fods elongate, linear, 

 generalf ^ 'i ^^^"letimes with a short 1-seeded beak ; valves l-nerved ; style 

 oblon* ^^^"der, stigma simple or 2-lobed. Seeds numerous, 2-seriate, 

 I^iiTmn^ c"^'"^^^^^ or subglobose ; cotyledons incumbent, conduplicate.— 

 Asia^" P^"^3 about 20 ; Mediterranean region, Western and Central 



Pilosf rp^!i^'°^^V '^"'^^d to Brassica bet diflfering in the flat pods, biseriate seeds, often 

 ^j "^Pals, and pink or purple flowers. 



fiowe^'io®'*®*^"' ^f- <^ T. ; hispid, lower leaves oblong entire or cut 



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hiss. Flor. Orient, i. 389. 



BeWhi8?fn'° *^e Salt Range of the Punjab, Fleming.— Di^trib. Aflghanistan and 



' "' 'eflexed' f ^•^*' ^'■'■^"(Jl'ed annual, 1-3 ft. high, hispid especially below with spreadijig 

 '^'W lohp^ ^^''''•. ^^"^^^ leaves shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lancoohite, entire 

 i^n of- ^'^ Pinnatifid ; upper lanceolate, less divided. Fldwers purpli.sh or white. 



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