Tas. 5749, 
IBERIDELLA rorunprrorta. 
Round-leaved Iberidella. 
Nat. Ord. Cructrer#.—TsrrRaDYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala erecta, basi equalia. Petala equalia. Stamina libera, 
edentula. Siligua compressa, oblonga v. lanceolata, acuta v. acuminata ; 
valvis carinatis v. subalatis ; septo angusto membranaceo ; stylo elongato, 
stigmate emarginato. Semina in loculis 2-6, oblonga, immarginata ; coty- 
ledones accumbentes, interdum oblique.—Suffrutices v. herbe sepius basi 
ramosi, glabri, montium Europe australis, Syrie, Persiz, e¢ Asie Minoris 
incole. Folia alterna et opposita, integra. Flores racemosi, albi lilacini 
v. roset. 
Iserivetta rotundifolia; humilis, glaberrima, radice elongata, ramis con- 
fertis ascendentibus foliosis, foliis oppositis parvis carnosulis obovatis 
v. obovato-rotundatis obtusis integerrimis v. obscure sinuato-dentatis 
radicalibus petiolatis caulinis sessilibus basi obtusis v, auriculatis, ra- 
cemis oblongis densifloris, pedicellis gracilibus patentibus, petalis li- 
lacinis, siliquis obovato-oblongis acuiinatis stylo persistente termi- 
natis, valvis carinatis, loculis 2-spermis. 
Tuuasprt rotundifolium. Gaud. Fl. Helvet. v. 4. p. 219. 
TutaspPt ceperfolium. Koch, Fl. Germ. ed. 2. p. 75. 
Tataspr corymbosum. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. 2. p. 8. t. 6. f. 4224. 
Hurcurnsta rotundifolia. 2. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p.82. DC. 
Prodr, v. 1. p. 177. 
Hurcnrnsta cepeefolia. DC. Syst. v. 2. p. 386. Prod. v. 1. p. 177. 
Hutcurnsta corymbosa. J. Gay, in Syllog. Ratisb. v. 1. p. 169. 
Iseris rotundifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. n. 905. 
Iserts cepeewfolia. Wulf. in Jacq. Mise. v. 2. p. 28. f. 1. 
Noccea ceperfolia. Reichb. Fl. Hxcurs. p. 663. 
A lovely little rock-plant, native chiefly of shingly calca- 
reous soils in the Alps of Europe, from Mont Cenis to Ca- 
rinthia, at elevations of 6-9000 feet. It flowered in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in April last, and at the same period 
in Messrs. Backhouse’s establishment at York; the Kew 
plants were received from the Zurich Botanic Gardens; 
Messrs. Backhouse’s were imported from the Monte Rosa 
JANUARY ILstT, L869, 
