Tas. 4947. 
MORICANDIA RambBurit. 
Rambur’s Moricandia. 
Nat. Ord. CruciFER®.—TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tetraphyllus, clausus, foliolis lateralibus basi saccatis. Co- 
rolle petaia 4, hypogyna, indivisa. Stamina 6, hypogyna, tetradynama, libera, 
edentula. Siligua bivalvis, elongato-linearis, compressa vel compresso-tetragona, 
valvis planis vel carinatis, septo membranaceo, s/ylo compresso, aspermo vel ra- 
rlus monospermo. Semina plurima, ovata, pendula, biseriata, immarginata, levia. 
Embryonis exalbuminosi cotyledones canaliculato-complicate, radiculam adscen- 
dentem includentes.—Herbe in Europa et Africa Mediterranea indigene, annue 
vel biennes, aut basi suffruticosa perennes, glabre, plerumque subglauce ; caulibus 
erectis, teretibus, ramosis, albicantibus ; foliis crassiusculis, integerrimis, sinuato- 
dentatis vel multifidis ; racemis terminalibus, laxis, aphyllis, pedicellis filiformibus, 
Sructiferis strictis ; floribus majusculis, purpurascentibus. Endl. 
Moricanp1a Ramburii ; foliis subcarnosis glabris, radicalibus late ovatis obtu- 
sissime sinuato-dentatis, caulinis cordato-amplexicaulibus, calyce valde bi- 
saccato, sepalis exterioribus in mucronem attenuatis interiora superantibus, 
siliquis longissimis, valvis multinerviis, seminibus uniserialibus compressis 
7 anguste marginatis. Boiss. 
Mortcanpra Ramburii. Webb, it. Hisp. p. 78. 
Brassica moricandioides. Boiss. El. n.12. Voy. Bot. en Espagne, p. 34. t. 8. 
___A pretty, hardy, perennial, Spanish plant, found in the moun- 
tains of Granada, at an elevation of two to three thousand feet 
above the sea-level, generally in clefts of rocks, by Messrs. Webb 
and Rambur, and Boissier. Mr. Webb refers the plant to J/ori- 
candia, Boissier to Brassica, for he combines this latter genus of 
Linnzus, together with Moricandia, Diplotazis, and Hruca, of 
De Cand., and Erucastrum, Spenn., all into one. Both our au- 
thors allude to the close affinity of our plant with Moricandia 
arvensis, L., from which at first sight it can scarcely be distin- 
ished, though truly distinct in its larger and more pointed 
eaves, larger flowers, in the deeply bisaccate calyx and the form 
of the exterior sepals, in the longer and larger pods, and especially 
in the uniseriate seeds, twice as large as those of MZ. arvensis. 
_ NOVEMBER Ist, 1856. 
