CRUCIFER#. XLVII. Ocutuopium. XLVIII. Pucionum. XLIX. Awnastatica. L. MORETTIA. 
gardens. The species only require to be sown in the open bor- 
der. A light sandy soil suits them best. 
XLVII. OCHTHO'DIUM (from oxfwene, ochthodes, 
warted ; in allusion to the warted surface of the pods.) D. C. 
syst. 2. p. 423. prod. 1. p. 184. 
Lin. syst. Tetradynamia, Siliculdsa.  Silicles coriaceous, 
somewhat globose. Stigma sessile. Dissepiment thick. Cells 
l-seeded. Cotyledons flat, oval-oblong, obliquely accumbent. 
An annual, erect, branched herb, with pinnatifidly-lyrate lower 
leaves, somewhat similar to those of Rape, and rather entire 
upper ones ; with the:stems pilose at base, and with elongated 
racemes, bractless short pedicels and yellow flowers. 
1 O. Aeyptiacum D. C. syst. 2. p. 423.) ©. H. Native 
of Egypt and Syria. Bunias Agyptiaca, Lin. syst. nat. 3. p. 231. 
Gmel. in Act. petrop. 12. p. 509. t. 9. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 145. 
Myagrum verrucdsum, Lam. dict. 1. p. 570.no. 11. Rapistrum 
Ægyptìacum, R. Br. in hort. kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 74. Euclí- 
dium AEgyptiacum, Andrz. cruc. ined. Radical leaves stalked. 
Petals larger than the calyx. 
Egyptian Ochthodium, Fl. Ju. July. Clt. 1787. Pl. 2 foot. 
Cult. This plant is scarcely worth cultivating except in bota- 
nic gardens. It only requires to be sown in the open border. 
A light sandy soil suits it best. 
XLVIII. PUGIO'NUM (from pugio, a dagger; resem- 
blance in point of pods.) Geert. fruct. 2. p. 291. t. 142. D.C. 
syst. 2. p. 424. prod. L. p. 185. 
Lin. syst. TYetradynamia, Siliculdsa.  Silicle coriaceous, 
transversely oval, echinated on all sides, and ending in a long, 
dagger-like point, 1-celled and 1-seeded from abortion. A 
smooth herb with linear, entire, half stem-clasping leaves, and 
loose racemes of small white flowers. 
1 P. cornu‘tum (Gert. l.c.) ©.? H. Native of the Le- 
vant and Siberia, in the desert of the Kalmucks, at the Caspian 
Sea. Binias cornita, Lin. spec. 935. Myagrum cornitum, 
Lam. dict. 1. p. 571. Flowers hardly larger than those of 
Eréphila vérna. Petals narrow, quite entire. Leaves linear, 
somewhat tongue-shaped, glaucous. 
Horned-podded Pugionum. Fl. Jun. July. Pl. 4 foot? 
Cult. This plant is hardly worth cultivating except in botanic 
gardens. It only requires to be sown in the open border, in a 
warm dry situation. A light sandy soil will suit it best. 
Tribe V. 
ANASTATICEZ: (plants agreeing in important characters 
with Anastdtica.) or PLEURORHI’ZEZ (See Sub-Order I.) 
SEPTULA'T (a dim. of septum, a dissepiment ; dissepiment 
small.) D. C. syst. 2. p. 424. prod. 1. p. 185. Silicle opening 
longitudinally (f. 46. f.), with concave valves, bearing internally 
transverse, horizontal dissepiments, which separate the seeds (f. 
46. f.). Seeds not margined. Cotyledons flat, accumbent, pa- 
rallel with the dissepiment (f. 45. g. h.). 
XLIX. ANASTA’TICA (from avacractc, anastasis, resur- 
rection ; plant recovering its original form however dry it may 
be, on immersion in water.) Geert. fruct. 2. p. 286. t. 141. D.C. 
Syst. 2. p. 425. prod. 1. p. 185. 
Lin. syst. Tetradynamia, Siliculdsa. Silicle ventricose 
(f. 46. e.), with the valves bearing each an appendage on the out- 
side at the end (f. 46. f.). Petals obovate. A small annual 
herb, branching from the neck. The younger plants are herba- 
ceous, villous and expanded. The adult plants become hard, 
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ligneous, and smooth, with the branches crowded: lattice-wise 
into a globular form. The leaves are oblong, and entire, the ra- 
cemes are short, and placed opposite the leaves. The flowers 
are small, sessile, and white. 
1 A. Hierocnuntrna (Lin. spec. 895.). ©.F. Native of 
arid wastes in Egypt near Caira; Palestine, and Barbary ; on 
roofs of houses and among rubbish in Syria; of Arabia in sandy 
deserts on the coasts of the Red Sea. Jacq. vind. t. 58. Lam. 
ill. t. 555. Schkuhr. handb. 2, no. 1760. t. 179. good figure. 
A. littoralis, Sal. prod. 266.—Lob. icon. 2. p. 203.—Moris. hist. 
2. p. 228. sect. 5.t. 25. f. 2& 3.—Weinm. phyt. t. 914. f. c. Stem 
much branched, somewhat dichotomous, dwarf. Leaves oblong 
or ovate, narrowed at the base into the petiole. Pods somewhat 
pubescent. The leaves fall off from the plant after flowering, 
and the branches and branchlets become dry, hard, and ligneous, 
and rise upwards and bend inwards at their points, hence they 
become contracted into a globular form, and in this state the 
plant is easily withdrawn from the sand by the wind and blown 
from the desert into the sea, and as soon as it comes in contact 
with the water, the branches gradually expand, and the pods 
open and relieve the seeds, which are thrown again upon the 
shore by the tide, and scattered with the sand through the desert 
by the wind. If this plant is taken up before it is withered, and 
kept entire ina dry room, it may be long preserved, and after 
being many years in this situation, if the root is placed in a glass 
of water a few hours, the buds of flowers will swell, open, and 
appear as if newly taken out of the ground, or it will recover its 
original form in the same manner if wholly immersed in water. 
The common people in Palestine ‘believe that if you put this 
plant in water at the time when a woman first experiences the 
pains of child-birth, it will expand at the precise moment when 
the infant is brought into the world. The plant is called Kaf - 
Maryam or Mary’s Flower in Palestine, because it is supposed 
that the flower opened at the instant our Saviour was born. 
Rose of Jericho or Holy Rose. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1597. Pl. 5 ft. 
Cult. The seeds of this plant rarely ripen in England, unless 
they be sown in a hot-bed early in the spring, and the plants 
afterwards put into pots which should be plunged again into the 
hot-bed to bring them forward ; for although the seeds will come 
up in the open ground, where the soil is dry, yet the plants rarely 
rise to any size, nor do they perfect seeds unless the summer is 
very hot anddry; but if the plants are kept in a frame, giving 
them free air in warm weather, they will flower in June and ripen 
their seeds in September. This plant is only grown in the 
gardens of the curious for its singularity. 
L. MORE’TTIA (in honour. of J. L. Moretti, an Italian 
botanist). D.C. syst. 2. p. 426. prod. 1. p. 185. 
Lin. syst. Tetradynamia, Siliculdsa. Silicle ovate, with the 
valves not appendiculated at the end. Petals linear. A branched 
herb, beset with fascicled-stellate grey hairs. Leaves obovate, 
cuneated at their base, and grossly toothed at their apices. 
Racemes erect, with short pedicels in the axillæ of the bracteas, 
which are leafy and longer than the flowers. 
1 M. puizma'na (D. C. syst. 2. p. 426.) b. ©.? H. Native 
of Nubia near the island of Phila. Sinapis Philaana, Delil. fl. 
egyp. p. 99. t. 33. f.3. Tucnéxia Phileana, D.C. syst. 2. 
p. 426. Stems suffruticose at the base, about the thickness of 
a pigeon’s quill. Leaves alternate, almost sessile. Flowers 
distant, small, probably white. Pods oblong, velvety on the 
outside. 
Phila Morettia. Fl. June, July. Pl. 4 to 3 foot. 
Cult. As this plant possesses no beauty, it is only worth 
cultivating in botanical gardens. It should be sown in a dry 
warm situation in the open border, where the seeds will ripen. 
