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vhite, in densely contracted sessile subumbellate racemes. Sepals spreading, 

 equal at the base. Petals spathulate, retuse or toothed. Pods very short com- 

 pressed on the 4 sides, obcordate; valves gibbous at the back, with a double 

 ^^^^^ ; septum broad, perforated, ultimately divsappearing. Seeds 2-4 in each 

 cell, oblong, wingless, on short thickened cords ; cotyledons incumbenl. 



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1. D. salsa, Thorns, in Hook Kew Joitrn, BoL v. 20, and iv. t. 12. 



^ In salt marshes jn Western Tibet, all. 12-17,000 ft.— Distrib. Tian Schan Mts. 



Ucot bimple, giving off many stout spreading steins at the crown. Sepals s,ud petals 

 ^^i^^^m.^ ^^^^^ ^^^ opening pods. — Specimens collected by Baron Von CEsten Sacken 

 "f'J"®^!^^, Schan Mts,, and which Euprecht described in his Sertum Tianshanicum, 



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Large coarse perennial herbs, with a thick fleshy root and stem, and large 

 "pinnate radical leaves. Flowers racemed or subcorymbose, white or violet 

 floured. Se2->als equal at the base. Pdals oblong, entire. Stamens 6 or 

 ^merous, filaments not toothed. Pods large, indehiscent, didymous, much 

 ^ttened at the sides; valves orbicular, broadly winged: stigma sessile, 

 ^ecfe large, solitary in each cell, much flattened, not winged; cotyledons 

 accumbent.— Distrib. Species 3, 2 Tibetan the 3rd Caspian. 



1. W. polyandra, Benth. in Hook KewJonrn. Bot. 1855, vii. 356, t. 7 ; 

 leai-segments incised and toothed, stamens 10-18, pods notched at the 

 "ase and tip, lobes orbicular. //./. <£; T. in Journ. Linn. Sac. v. 176. 



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»"• 12 000 ft , Struchey and Winterhottom. 

 WT f f'"'^^ **« tl^*-' ^^-"^t. annulate, li 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as tlie thumb below, 



bran \^ i T "^ wnst, annulate, otem i-z u., as iiuck hs luc luuruu ucuw, 



/n^ ^ ^^^* iea2?e5 1-2 ft., a span broad ; segments very irregular, sharply toothed. 

 ii^J^^i^^f ^^^'^ branched, pubenilous ; flowers cup-shaped, ^ in. diam., shorter than 

 dilJ ^^. ^*^' ^l^ite. Filaments stout, fleshy, subulate. Oi^ary broadly obovate, base 

 «ed into the fleshy lobed disk ; stiirma entire, discoid. Pod 2 in. diam., wings nearly 

 ^ ^^^a^l as the cell, veined. Seed reniform. 



mii ?' ^*^**' ^mif/i. Z.c. 357 ; leaf-segments lanceolate quite entire, sta- 

 jTm' /~V> pods deeply 2-lobed, lobes obovate at length conumng. //./. 

 ^ in Joum. Linn. Sac. v. 176. 



Fal^^^^^ Tibet, in the Kishengunga valley, alt. 7400 ft., Winterbottom ; Deotsu, 



JT^^~^^ in., stout, Btiff, erect. Leaves with dccurrcnt quite entire lobes 2-3 in. 

 S^ acute or acuminate. Pcxls 2-3 in. diam., lobes broadlj obliquely obovate, sinus 



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0nl„i!!*^"Ss equalling | of the cell— Specimens very imperfect, Winterbottom has 

 ^mlh^^u^^ of a leaf well preserved, with quite entire l(Vbes. Falconer's Bpecimons 



JJ« 80 shrivelled 



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32. TKZiASFX, Linn. 



clasSn^ .f'" perennial herbs, leaves entire or toothed, the upper often 

 *''W« . n ^*^™' Flowers racemose, small, white or rarely pale rose. 

 ^/^ smaU, erect, equal at the base. Petals equal or nearly so. Fod orbi- 



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