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164 X, CRUCiFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Tauschria. 



base. Pods short, boat-staped, concave above, convex below, centre 

 crustaceous, indebiscent, 1-celled with a broad wing folded inwards at the 

 edges and prolonged into a short triangular style, iyeed solitary, pendulous 

 from the top of the cell, cotyledons incumbent. 



1. T. lasiocarpa, DC. Frodr. i. 210. T. desertorum, Led. Ic. PI Pi- 

 Ro&s. t. 139; Roijle III 72, t. 17 ; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn, >S'oc. v. 178. ^ 



KuNAWUR in the Western Himalaya and Western Tibet, alt. 10-13,000 ft.-Dw- 



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TRiB. Soongaria and the Caspian region. ^ , 



Stem 1 ft., seldom branching from below. Leaves ovate-oblong, radical subpetiolea, 

 cauline with cordate auricles. Flowers in a loose corymbose panicle ; pedicels recur^^eci 

 in fruit. Puds i in., thickly glandular-hairy.— All the Tibetan and Himalayan spe- 

 cimens have pubescent pods and hence belong to var. lasiocarpa ; plants with glabrous 

 pods occur in Soongaria and the Caspian region, apparently associated with var. lOSUh 



carpa 



36. DZPTERVGIVM, Dene. 



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A virgate rigid much branched slirub with the habit of a Cleorru, the 

 branches ending in few-flowered racemes. Leaves small, ovate-oblougj 

 entire. Flowers small, few, in bracteate racemes. Sej^als short, equal at 

 the base. Siameiis free; filaments entire, l-celled, ellipsoid, compressea 

 laterally, indehiscent, coriaceous, surrounded by a membranous wmg. 

 Seed solitary, erect, winged ; cotyledons concave, incumbent. 



1. U. grlaucum, Decaisne in Ann. Sc, Nat Ser. 2, iv, 67; //./• f' ^' 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 179; Boiss FL Orient i. 417. Isatis spartioides, 



Fdgew. mss. 



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An annual herb, with branched pubescence. Leaves entire or sin^*^ 

 toothed, cauline sagittate. Flowers small, yellow, in ebracteate P^^^^?^ 

 racemes. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals entire. Pods ^j^^^tf 

 stalked, subglobose, slightly flattened, coriaceous, indehiscent. /!)'^^» ^^' 

 tary; cotyledons incumbent. 



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panlculata, Desv. Journ. iil 162; ff.f. & T. in Journ. L^n* 



Boiss. Ft Orie 



In the Punjab-Himalaya, from Hazara to the Beas, Stewart; Kashmir, m- ^ 

 6000 ft.— DisTiUB. In fields ; Persia, Western Asia, temperate Europe. , , 



Stem. 1-1 i ft., erect, rather slender, simple helow. Itadical leaves 1-2 m., obion^^ 

 lanceolate, cauline shorter, auricles sagittate. Flowers numerous, on '^"S j . 

 spreading glahrous pedicels. Pods a little broader than long, reticulated, &^^ ' 

 style slender, sharp. \ ■ 



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with 



Umers small, white, in tern^J^ 



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or lateral, ebracteate racemes. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. ^, 

 small, erect, subsessile, subglobose, crowned by an oblique subulate P > 





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