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2 pits at the top below the beak. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo inciimberifr 

 on the induplicate or fiexuous radicle. — Distrib. About 50 species, natives 

 of temperate regions in the Old World, whence a few have escaped to the 

 New, and to the Southern Hemisphere. 



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",* Beak of carpels ventrally clothed with rigid 

 towards the tip. 



t Leaves 1-2-3-pinnatisect 



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setse that disappear 





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__ , an; DC. Prodr. I 646; annual, leaves pin- 



natisect pinnules pinnatifid^ not decurrent, sepals mucronate, filaments 

 glabrous not toothed. Boiss. FL OrienL I 890. ? E. himalayauum, Moyle 



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III. 1 50. 



Western ladia, from Sindh and the Panjab to Simla, ascending to 8000 ft'™. 

 Little Tibet, near Iskardo. — Distrib. Westward to Algeria and througbout Europe 

 and temperate N. Asia ; introduced elsewhere. ■ ii-."^* 



^ Pubescent and glandular. Branches short or long, sometimes 2-3 ft. Leaves oblong, 

 pmnules 7-11 pairs sessile; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious. Feduncl^ 

 many-flowered ; pedicels hoary; bracts small, connate, ovate, hyaline. Sepals b-nened, 

 margined. Petals obovate, unequal, bearded at the base, purple, often spotted, Beak 

 of carpels 5 times as long as the cell, scabrous outside, almost glabrous above, pits 

 with a concentric fold. Seeds very smooth: cotyledons 3-lobed. 



2. E. ciconium, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. i. 646 ; annual, leaves pinnat^ect - 

 pinnules pinnatifid decurrent, sepals awned, filaments ciliate not tootnea. 

 Boiss. FL Orient.!. 891. ^- - i-^ 



Panjab, near Kohat In the Salt Kange, Stewart.— Dibtkib. Westward to S)Tia» the' 



Caucasus, and S. Enrope. -kj -. . . , " ' i, r1- 



Pubescent and viscid. Branches stout, ascending. Leaves ovate, pinnules toothed; 

 stipules ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 2-QD-flowered; bracts scarious, mucronate, ciliate. Sevals ovate, membranous, witnj) 

 glandular hairy nerves with long cili« and a long rougli awn. Petals purple, obojai^ 

 Carpels subulate at the base, glabrous, with white hairs and a glabrous scar at tw 

 tip, pits without a fold; beak very long, scabrous outside, wiih brown hairs at the top 

 and longer setae below, '■ '-'- T 



3. E. Stephanianum, WUld. ; DC. Prodr. i. 645 ; annual, leaves 

 2-pinnatisect segments decurrent acutely toothed, sepals awned, filamenw 

 cihate toothed on one side. Ledeh. Fl. Ross. \. Alb in part. 



Westekn Tibet, Ladak and Nubra, alt. 11-12,000 ft., T/iomson.— Distkib. Siberia, 

 China. . <v 



Pubescent and pilose, ^rarac/tes diffuse. Stipules cuneate, acute, ciliate. ^'^'^^"'^Kllh 

 flowered ; bracts linear, reflexed, ciliate. Sepals ovate, 5-nerved, ciliate, awn long, rti 

 a.s long as the sepals, broadly ovate, nerved, ciliate at the base. Carpels hispid. o«^ 

 glabrous, minutely aciculate.— The Siberian speciraenin Herb. Kew. resembles 

 1 ibctan, and does not accord with Ledebour's description as to the stamens, wui » 

 however, Chinese specimens do. 



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4. E. tibetanum, Fdgew. ; annual % leaves 3-fid velvety beneat , 

 sepals obovate obtuse not awned, carpels not pitted below the beak. 



Western Tibet, Fakoner ; Ladak Valley below Hanle, alt. 12-15,000 fl^, Tho'^ 

 ton, Hay. , ■ i ..^ - '^ '.• jes 



>:.; Hoary, almost steraless. Leaves oblong-bvate. more or less inclso-crenate i" «*?P (3 

 : cuneate^ srarionfi, ciliate. Perfunc?e« shorter than the leaves, »- or ^01%-^^^^'; liLtic, 



^xUate. Sepals pubescent, with a small knob in place of a macro. Petals a 







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