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Euclidium] x. CRUCiFERiE, (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 165 



Wd and crustaceous, indeMscent, rarely dehiscent, 2-ceIled ; septum thick. 

 «^ 2, oblong, pendulous • cotyledons accurnbent or obliquely incumbent. — 

 l^KTEiB. Species 2, central and western Asia. 



,?• S- syriacum, JR. Br. inIIoH,Kew. ed. 2, iv. 74; Hf. & T. inJoum. 

 Lxnn. Soc. v. 179 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 386 ; Griff. Itin, Notes 272, ^o. 631. 



^Kashmir, alt. 5-6000 ft., Winterhottom ; Punjab, at Peshawur, ^S'^ezrar^.— Distkib. 

 Westwards to central Europe. 



^iffuse, much branched, 4-12 in. high, with 2-3-furcate hairs or glabrous ; branches 

 ■toot, rigid when old. Leaves 1-4 in., petioled, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers distantly 

 RQbspicate ; pedicels very short, much thickened in fruit. Fods \ in, long, pitted, 

 flairj; beak (style) stout, oblicLuely reflexed, mucronate. 



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39. CRAMBS, Toum. 



Stout herbs or undershrubs. dabrous or dHosc. Leaves pinnate lyrate or 



panicled. Flowers conspi- 

 I • filaments of the longer 

 dehiscent, articulate, the 



f fT^^^ ^^^^ *^^ undershrubs, glabrous or pilose, 

 loothed. Racemes elongate, ebracteate, usually ] 

 cuous, white. Sepals snreadino-. ennal at the bas. 



!PPer joint globose, 

 :he upper joint. Se 



t 



DlSTRlB, 



vmcn rises trom the base ot the cell; cotyiea 

 Species about 20, European and temp. Asiatic. 



406. 



I Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. iii. 267 ; //•/. 

 'om. Fl. Orient. I 405. C. Kotschyaii 



-"^«AwnR in the Western Himalaya, and in Western Tibet, alt. 10-14,UW u. 

 ™iB Westward to Persia and the Caucasus. „ ,. , 



A tall stout bristly hairy perennial. Stem striated. Rootstock thick. Eadical 

 ^e« on stout petioles, 1-2 in., petiole striated and dilated at the base, rounded and 

 rlin 1 -J "'''^*® ^^^ variously toothed ; cauline on shorter petioles, ovate elliptic or 



omboid, toothed or lobed. Racemes loosely panicled. Fods globose, .upper part 

 fJ;^"?'<=^"staceous — Some Tibetan specimens have broader petals and shorter staniens 

 an^p ™ents of the long stamens almost simple) than are found in the Affghan 

 eaten ^"b^"''" ' ^"* *^'^^^ P^^^*s agree in all other respects. Stocks says the root is 





40. PKVSORKITNCVS 



i^glabrou^, glaucous, leafy underslirub. Leaves fleshy, low^r petioled^ 

 S ^""''^ed. Flowers large, white, in elongated distantly flowered 

 S'^f ^ racemes. Sepals erect, equal at the base. Fods ' mdehiscei.t 

 SDuS: ' ^^^ ^«^er joint longitudinally 2-celled, seedless, with small 



' CS ^-^^'^^ i '^PPer joint large, ovoid, with a long conical beak (style) 

 mSl T^^ ^^^«k lacunose walls cells 2-4-seeded ; septum thm ; stigma 

 J^ocapitate Seeds flattened, pendulous from the side of the cells ; coty- 



. '^onsconduplicate. '- 



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J. p. brahvl 



ta sv^^ D^"^®' ^^'^'^- ^<^- ^^- t- 821 and 822, Jious. I'l. unacv. i. -.-^ 

 ^ syn;. P. chamaerapistrum, Boiss. I.e. 



I^l*^'}"" tte Salt Range, Vicar ,/ .-D istrib. Westwards to Southern Persia. 

 toothed H,^ perennial, about 2 ft. high. Leaves 1-4 in., ovate-oblong, entire- or repand- 

 decadent ^ 'T-^^^ O"- a<="^e, lower petioled ; cauline narrowed at the base, shghlb 



•♦•»icCd n?J ^"™^ed, uppermost linear-lanceolate. PefeZ* erect, i in., a httk 

 '•^"ed at the top.: hdsZiin.. ^ ,.:,-.r.^:: ,mmim-'''--r. 



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