Cardamine.} CRUCIFERZ (Sond.) 23 
A foot high, with the habit of a Nasturtium. Root leaves 2 inches long, 6-8 
lines wide, with a flat petiole, 1 inch long ; the upper teeth !-1 line long, lower 1~2 
lines ; the uppermost leaf below the middle of the stem, an inch long. Raceme 
3-4 inches. Flowers small, white. Pod (unripe) half an inch long, straight or 
slightly curved : stigma sessile, thickened. 
VI. CARDAMINE. L. 
Sepals erect or patulous, equal at base, Siligua linear ; the valves 
flat, nerveless, often opening with elasticity. Seeds ovate, not mar- 
gined, on slender stalks, in a single row. DC. Prod. 1. p. 149. 
Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs, dispersed over the globe, glabrous or rarely 
sprinkled with hairs. Leaves petiolate, the upper ones sometimes sessile, either 
undivided, lobed or pinnatipartite. Flowers white or purple, in terminal, leafless — 
racemes. Name, from xapdia, the heart, and Sapa, to fortify ; from supposed 
strengthening properties. 
1. C. africana (Lin. Sp. 914) ; leaves glabrous, or sparsely hispid on 
the upper surface, ternate, the leaflets petiolulate, ovate, acuminate, 
toothed ; pods linear. DC. Prod. 1. p. 151. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 497. 
L.§ Z.! 29. C. Auteniquana, Burch. in DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. In woods. Grootvadersbosch, Thunberg/ Zeyher! Waterfall, on the 
roe Mount, Capetown, Ecklon, Drege, d&c. June—Sep. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., 
.C.D.) 
Root perpendicular, long. Stem decumbent or erect, }-1 foot high. Leaves on 
long petioles ; leaflets an inch long, or sometimes 2 inches, ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, the side ones oblique at base, the terminal mostly a little larger, equal and 
cordate or obtuse at base. Racemes 6~12-flowered. Fl. small, white. Pods 
smooth, 12-15 lines long, a line wide ; pedicels erectopatent, 3-6 lines long. It 
occurs either with glabrous leaves, or with leaves hairy at both sides and ciliolate, or 
at least sparsely pilose on the upper surface ; the smooth form is C. africana, DC. ; 
the hairy one is C. auteniquana, Burch. : 
Sub-tribe II. Atnyssinnz. 
Pod (silicula) roundish or oval, with a broad septum, and flat or 
_ convex valves, dehiscing. Seeds compressed, orten margined. Cotyle- 
dons accumbent. eam 
Sepals erect, equal at base. Petals entire. Stamens toothed or entire. 
Silicula orbicular or elliptical ; the valves flat or convex in the centre. 2 
Seeds 1-4 in each cell, compressed, sometimes with a membranous, — : 
winglike margin. DC. Prod. 1. p. 160. 
Herbs, natives of the warmer temperate zones, chiefly of the northern hemi- 
sphere, annual, biennial, or perennial, covered with short, whitish stellate pubes- 
cence. Leaves entire. Racemes terminal ; flowers white or yellow. Name from 
a, privitive and Avoca, rage; from the ancient reputation of a plant called alyssum. 
Sub-gen. 1. Adyseton (DC.) Flowers yellow. Stamens toothed. : 
1. A. glomeratum (Burch, in DC, Prod. 1. p. 163); annual,clothed = 
with soft, greyish, stellate pubescence ; stems ascending ; leaves lance- 
olate, obtuse, villous ; raceme very dense ; calyces persistent ; silicules 
orbicular, glabrous. — eS 
