Tas. 4672. 
MALCOLMIA uirrorREa. 
Sea-shore Malcolmia. 
Nat. Ord. CrucrFera®.—TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis conniventibus basi equalibus vel late- 
ralibus gibbis. Corolle petala 4, hypogyna, unguiculata, indivisa. Stamina 6, 
hypogyna, tetradynama, edentula. Stigmata 2, acuminata, conniventia. Siligua 
bivalvis, elongata, teretiuscula, valvis convexis trinerviis, placentarum prominulo, 
obtuso, septo uninervi. Semina plurima, pendula, uniserialia, submarginata, 
leevia, funiculis liberis filiformibus. mdryonis exalbuminosi cofyledones planz, 
radiculee adscendenti incumbentes.—Herbee annue in regionibus Mediterraneis et 
Asia media indigene, erecta, ramose, pube stellata v. setulis rigidis bi-quadrifidis 
rarius simplicibus vestite ; foliis caulinis sparsis, oblongis, integerrimis, dentatis, 
lyratis v. sinuato-pinnatifidis ; racemis terminalibus et lateralibus laxis, aphyllis ; 
floribus purpurascentibus v. albis. 
Maucotm1a Jittorea ; biennis, pube stellata cana, caule multiplici erecto ra- 
moso, foliis lanceolatis integris vel remote sinuato-dentatis sessilibus, pedi- 
cellis brevissimis, stylo brevi, stigmate elongato apice obtuso emarginato vel 
bifido, siliquis erecto-patentibus elongatis teretibus. 
Matcorma littorea. Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.0.4. p.121. De Cand. Syst. Veget. 
v. 2. p. 443. Prodr. v. 1. p. 187. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.2.p. 898. Bows- 
sier, Voy. Bot. Espagne, p. 28. 
Hespenis littorea. Lam. Dict. v. 3. p. 322. 
Cuerrantuvs littoreus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 995. 
Levcosum maritimum minus. Clus. Hist. v. 1. p. 198. f. 2. 
Of this really beautiful hardy plant, cultivated in our gardens 
so early as 1683, no good figure has hitherto been given. It is 
a littoral plant of South Europe. Its northern limit seems to be 
Nantes, and thence it extends itself along the coasts of Spain 
and Portugal, and the western shores of the Mediterranean. 
Desfontaines detected it in Barbary, and Broussonet in Morocco. 
In our country it is best treated as an annual. In warmer climes 
it is at least biennial, the lower part of the stems becomes quite 
woody, and then the branches are more. strictly erect, and more 
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