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• Erect branching herbs. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid. Flowers lilac or yellow, 

 veined with violet. Sq^als erect, lateral saccate at the base. i^efa/sveineA' 

 Pods closely adpressed to the axis, ovoid-oblong, turgid, terete, with a large 

 ensiform seedless beak; valves concave, 3-nerved ; stigma simple. Seed$ 

 numerous, 2-seriate, globose ; cotyledons conduplicate. — Distrib. Three 

 species, inhabiting the Mediterranean region and W. Asia. ;. 



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1. E. sativa, Lamk. ; Erassica Eruca, Linn; H.f. & T. in Joum.Linn. 

 JSoc. V. 171. B. erucoides, Roxb. FL Ind, iii. 117. 



Cultivated places in Northern and Central India, the Western Himalaya, 

 ascending to 10,000 ft., and Upper Gangetic valley.— Distrib. Westward to the 



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Glaucous, glabrous, or subhispid >S'item 6-18 in. ieav^s variously toothed, rarely 

 obovate and subentire. Flowers large, pale yellow or white and veined. SepaU oiten 

 lipped with hairs. Pods 1 in., erect and appressed (o the stem; pedicels shorter tlian 

 the calyx ; valves twice as long as the broad flattened peak. r ^ 



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itisect. ^ Flowers rather large, violet, purple or rL=^e 

 , lateral saccate at the base. Petals clawed. Jroas 



colored. Sepals erect^ i<*^vx.*i ofiw^cv^v; «i,i. mc ua.-»e. x ^v^va ^^^ ,. 



linear, elongate, subtetragonal, with or without a flattened 1-seeded beaK^, 



linear, eiongaie, suoieiragonai, witn or witnout a nattenea i-setuci^ --— ' 

 valves flat or bluntly keeled, 1- rarely many-nerved; stigmatic lobes uiutea 

 into a short cone. Seeds numerous, 1-2-seriate, compressedj sometioi^ 

 winged ; cotyleHons incumbent, conduplicate. — Distrib. Species about o, 

 natives of the Mediterranean reeion, Arabia, and W. Asia. 



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ovate obtuse, cauline am 



geeds small sub-2- seriate, 

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Biennial, or a perenniid of short duration. Leaves 2-4 in., shortly petioled; ^^" ''n 



. ^ i?^Zo?tw« fewjargc, shortly H'cellejj^^^ 



a loose long raceme. Petals rose-coloured, much larger than the sepals. Pods ^-^ '^ 



ovate or oblong with lar^e clasping auricles. 



, uiuua larger iuhu luc or^aio. -» — ftmeS 



very narrow, erect; valves nerved ; style usually broad, thickened, acute, somen 

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2. M. tortuosa, //./. <{r TAnJoum. Linn. Soc. v. 172 ; leaves elliptjj^^ 

 oblong, cauline sessile, pods long subcyliiidric, beak cylindric acute, se ^ 

 l-seriate. Douepia tortuosa, Cambess. in Jacq. Voy. Pot. 18, t. 18. . i 1;^^ 



Salt plains of the Punjab, West of the Indus, Jacquemont ; Salt ranob, ^'fy^ 

 An erect, glaucous, glabrous, branched perennial, 1-2 ft. high. 'S'^^"? ^^'^Viowef 

 woody, sometimes tortuose. Leaves thick, mucronate, entire or crenate-sinuate; 

 3-5 in., narrowed into a broad petiole. Flowers few, large, erect, scattered ^^^^^ 

 lengthened raceme. Petals pale robC-coloured, nearly twice the length of f"-®/^^yeS 

 Pods erect, or ascending, linear; beak ^ in.: style short, conical, pointed ; ^ 

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