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Iberidella.] x. CRuciFERiE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 163 



cles. Flowers white or rose-coloured, racemose. Sepah erect, lateral saccate 



at the base. Petals 

 valves keeled, without 

 Sieds 2 to 6 in each ce 

 CiSTEEB. Species 6. W, 



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ityle elongat 



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f. <k T. in Joum 



V r *T"**^* »"***f ^J./. d; ±. mjoum. ijinn. i:^oc. v, iv/ ; raaicai leaves 



snort petioled tufted ovate-oblong, cauline oblong obtuse. 



■* Western Himalaya in Kumaon, Straclmj and Winterbottom; and Gaewhal, T. An- 

 Person; alt. 12-16,000 ft., in wet grassy places. 



Ill h ^ *^*^''' branching above, jStems erect, 2-4 in. high, simple or branched from 

 lae base; flowerless shoots weak, decumbent. Ead'ical leaves indistinctly toothed; 

 cauline with small cordate auricles; leaves of the barren shoots broadly ovate or almost 

 ^sf p 7^^^.^^^ P^^i^^^cd. Flowers numerous, racemed, rather large, white or pale 

 ^'5. rods (immature) ^ in , much flattened, narrow, lanceolate, curved, acute; valves 

 giess ; style very short, acute, tapering from the base. 



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34 XSATXS. Linn. 



Erect, tall, branching annuals or biennials, \dih. petioled radical leaves ; 

 ^wine sessde sagittate. Fkmers small, yellow, in loose terminal racemes. 

 y<s equal at the base, spreading. Petals equal, entire. Pod Hat, oblong 

 haS f^'" '^"'leate-oblong rarely suborbicular, l-celled, indehiscent ; centre 

 "*.™, often depressed ; margin membranous foliaceous or thickened ; 



oma sessde. Seed solitary, pendulous, oblong ; cotyledons incnmbent, 

 «eiy accumbent— DisTEiB. Species about 30, natives of the Mediterranean 



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to(!th ri T®"^^' Linn:; biennial, radical leaves entire or coarsely 



tlnVv! ' 1 ^^^^^^^® glabrous, pods cuneate-oblong l-ribbed, pedicel not 

 '^^enecl at the tip. H.f. <fc T. in Joum. Linn, Soc. v. 178. 



^^ p*^"^^*^^ places ; Western Tibet. JaZconer.— Distrib. Westward to Europe and 

 ^ne^tanary Islands. 



lJ-3^ff*' ^,^°^®*^at glaucous and glabrous with a few hairs near the base. Stem 

 oWp\ k! *^^^^' much branched above. Eadical leaves 2-5 in., petioled, from 

 ^ pf ^^^*^"g-la«ceolate, cauline narrow, 1-2 in. long, entire, auricles acute sagit- 

 ^erv /y^^*** small, yellow, racemed in a many branched panicle; pedicels glabrous, 

 Wrin^ f u ^^*^^^'^^'l after flowering, Fods ^-f in., glabrous, rounded at the tip, 

 ^ g to the base ; midrib thickened at the centre of the pod. 



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3-ribhpH ^^ V ^bovate or oblong entire, cauline ciliate, pods elliptic-oblong 

 ^ "«a, pedicel thickened at the tip. //./ d' T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 170. 



Gore??„T '^''^"' ^'^"'^y °''t^e Kishengunga in Balti, alt. 4-7000 ft., Winterbottom; 

 ^TO o ff^t^^^'^™'"- ^''"i mountains, Soongaria, Caspian region to the V olga. 

 VrineV? ^'^^' ^'■^<=*' l^ranched above. Badical leaves 3-5 in., tip rounded, base 

 ""arrins a J ^.^^»^i petiole; cauline linear-oblong, 2-4 in., uppermost linear, i in., 

 "preadin? "^'""'^ beneath ciliate. Eacemea loosely panicled ; pedicels glabrous, 



S or recurved, subsecund. Pods i in., rounded at the tip, glabrous. 





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se panicles, oepals 



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