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^^T^^ *l''^ margins of tlie carpels of L. humile, Mill., and the crenate petals (Eoxb.) 

 ana smooth leaf-margins of L, mitatissimum, and is thus intermediate between these 

 apposed species. Roth's specimens of trinervlum (from Herb. Rottler) are from a garden ; 

 iney are very imperfect, but clearly L. usitatissiinum. 



% L. perenne, Linn. ; perennial, steins many from the roots, leaves all 

 ^nceolate or lower oblong obtuae and upper linear acute, petals blue entire, 

 styles quite free, stigmas subcapitate, capsule much longer than the white- 

 inargined sepals. r , r 6 ^ 



WE3TEBN Tibet, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Rb, Boyle, Munro, &c.; Lahul, Jaeschke.— 

 DiSTRiB. Westwards to the Canaries. / 



w»» 1 3 ft. liigl^ Leaves ^-| in., without stipular glands. Cymes few-flowered, 

 lar ^^^^' -Flowera 1 in. broad. Sepals ovate or obovate, 3-5-nerved. Capsule as 



£e as a pea, on a slender pedicel. Sepals with glandular margins. . f 



flow^^*^ '^^oci^iaTOm, Boiss. FL Orient, i. 865 ; more glaucous, cymes very few- 

 ^^ Stocksianum, Boiss, Diagn, Ser. 2, i. 98.— Scarcely different from the 



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late 1 ' ®*''**^*^*^f Linn. ; annual, leaves linear linear-oblong or lanceo- 



sti^ ^^^^^^.^ margins and keel scabrid, petals yellow, styles quite free 



omas capitate, capsule globose shorter than the long acuminate sepals. 



^^^.J^L Orient, i. 852. 



flj^,^^i/"?&w?05uw, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot., vii. 476; corymbs lax- 

 i ^^^^' pedicels longer than the calyx. L. corymbulosum, Reichh.; Boiss, FL Orient. 



West^ r^l*^-^® HILLS, &c., extending to Peshawur and Marri, Jacquemont, &c. 

 and Ita^^ '^' ^^^' ^^'^^^ ^'-^ Falconer, &c.— Djstrib. From Soongaria to N. Africa 



rijlj^'^"^^^ a^nwal, perhaps at times biennial, usually corymbosely branched above, 

 Plo\joer Ta^P^""^'^ pubescent. Leaves ^-^ in., acuminate, without stipular glands, 

 riria / *~* ^^. ^^^03-, shortly pedicelled, in corymbose cymes. Sepals with very long 

 *am \aT points, about equalling the pedicels, margins glandular. Capsule \ in. 

 /f. :\^^ 3j®~^^*tivated in Affghanistan for oil and fodder, and not for flax {Griffith, 



brln^* ?*'?®''®°s®» ffeyne in Wall. Cat 1507; annual, stem corymbosely 

 obtiKA ^^^^' ^^''^^^s oblong or elliptic-oblong narrowed at the base 

 cotoaL^l*^"*^ 3-nerved, petals yellow small bxit exceeding the calyx, styles 

 sepaf ^^^7 stigma capitate, capsule ?^-"* --"oMinfr tliP nvate acute 



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ViuL^ i i "^- J^roar. \. i^j ; i nwaiies rjiium. zo ; ntnw. uv ^w. ^^<^y. 



L trin • ^^^^ 5 ^"^2- <^ Gibs. Bmih. Flor. 16. L. humile, Heyne mss. 

 ^nnemum, Herb, ffohenhack, not of Roth. 



to the T? y '^ °^ ^'^'^ Westekn Peninsula, from the Concan, Kandalla and the Deccan 

 &c. oi '^^*"^- Westekn Himalafa, Garwhal, alt., 3-5000 ft., Jacquemont, Boyle, 



A am Jl'7' f- ^6000 ft., Tha,aites. , ^ 



-I in '' ?'«nder glabrous herb, usually much corymbosely branched above. Leaves 

 -in dLm • '"breadth and somewhat inform, without stipular glands Ilowera 

 Hi v" ' ^^ P^inicled corymbs, the branches of which elongate as unilateral cymes in 

 lelow, (uK V^^ ^^liite eglaudular margins and short points. Filaments connate 



above. Cajosule i in. diam., globose. 





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ininJt^^^^^f u^s. -C^aws alternate, quite entire or creuate-serrate ; stipules 

 »niosp'/^9H^ate, caducous. Flowers yellow, in axillary and terminal 

 /e<a^ 5^^'^^cles, rarely solitary. Sepals 6, quite entire, lanceolate, acummate. 



' contorted, fugacious, mucli longer than the sepals. Stamens 5, hy- 





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