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41. RAPHANUS, Linn« 



Coarse, rough or glabrous annuals or biennials. Leaves lyrate-pmnate 

 or pinnatific!. Flowers large, yellow, white or pale lilac, veined with purple, 

 in long ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, lateral ones saccate at the base. 

 Fods indeliiscent, elongate, terete, thick, continuous or constricted, with a 

 long tapering pointed beak, continuous within or filled with pith separating 

 the seeds. Seeds pendulous, globose ; cotyledons conduplicate. — Disteib, 

 Species about 6, European and Asiatic. 



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X 1- 3*- sativus, Z. ; DC. Frodr. i. 228 ; lower leaves lyrate. (Radish.) 



Cultivated throughout India, and up to 16,000 ft. in the Himalaya.— Distrib. With 

 cultivation throughout the temperate and warm zones. . , . 



Boot fleshy, variable in size and form. ieaz;e5 roughly pilose. , i^Zozrer^ variable, 

 usually white or lilac with purple veins. Pods terete, continuous, 1 in. to 2 ft. (-"• c^^ 



datus L.).— The variety (i?. caudatus), with whip-like pods as long as the entire 



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plant, is commonly cultivated in Western India and the Punjab. The you 

 Linn^us {PI Bar. Hort, Upsal, Dec. i. t. 10, an excellent figure) gives Ja^^^® -n 

 country from whence the seeds of candatus were received, under the name " ^°"^j 

 B, Baphanistrum, Linn,, can scarcely be distinguished from B. sativus^ and is probab y 

 . only the wild state of it. 



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42. GOZ.DBACBXA, DC. 



A glabrous, glaucous, branched annuaL Lower leaves petioled, uppet 

 auricled. Flowers small, pale rose, in elongate, ebracteate racemes, y^/^ 

 erect, equal at tlie base. Fods coriaceous, indehiscent, tetragonal, ^^^1^ ^ 

 constricted between the seeds, but scarcely jointed, curved, tapering above 

 into a broad flattened beak ; cells 2 or 3, superimposed in one roW; eacn 

 1-seeded. Seeds oblong, pendulous ; cotyledons incumbent. 



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1. G. leevigrata, DC. Syst. ii. 577 • radical leaves many ovate^ 

 sinuate-tootlied. II. f. & T. inJourn. Linn. Soc. v. 180 ; Boiss. FL Orient. 

 243. G. torulosa, DC. I.e. -. 



Kashmir, alt. 5000 ft., Jacquemont; common in the Punjab. — Diotkib. Westw 



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Stem 9-15 in. high. Badical leaves 4-5 in.; cauline lanceolate, usually ^"^ J^ 

 toothed, shortly auricled. Pods pendulous, ^ in. long, reticulately veined, costa 

 the angles ; pedicels rather slender, reflexed, shorter than the pods. — Boissier "®^*^^ ^ 

 a variety, B. ascendens^ having erect pods, with reflexed pedicels. The '^"°^^.. gj 

 Indian specimens examined have all drooping pods, with the exception of one 

 Aflghanistan, in which the lower pods are ascending. 



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43. CBORXSPORA, DC 



branching or tufted, glandular or hairy herb. Learn ^^*^^.' 

 pinnatisect. Flowers yellow or purple, in few-flowered ebracteate ^^^^^^jj* 

 pedicels lengthened, usually thickening after flowering. Sej^^, *^j^ 

 lateral saccate at the base. Fod elongate, cylindric, torulose, ^^^^ - 



cent, with a lengthened beak ; cells numerous, 2-seriate, 1-seeded ; Ip ^^, 

 the stigma erect; cotyledons accumbent. — Distrib. About 7 species, 

 lives of Western Asia. /. 



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jpathulate, flowers purplish, pedicels very short, pods 





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