ee 
Sisymbrium.] CRUCIFERE (Sond.) 25 
Barber! Natal, Gueinzius. 8, Caledon River, Burke & Zey. Vische River, Drege 
y. Swellendam, Thunb. / Caledon River, B. & Z, Nieuweveld, Drege. Oct.—Dec. 
(Herb, Thunb., Sond., T.C.D., Hook.) 
Stem, 2 feet or more in height, striate, with long spreading branches. Lower 
leaves 4~7 in. long, (in a) 11-2 inch wide, with ovate, toothed lobes } inch long or 
less ; in y 1-2 inch wide, deeply pinnatifid, the rachis 1-1} lines wide, lobes 6-10 
at each side, horizontally patent, 4-1 inch long, with short teeth or quite entire. 
Upper leaves 1 inch long. Raceme 6-12 inches ; flower stalks 3-4, fruit stalks 4-6 
_lines long. Petals longer than calyx, 2-2} lines long. Pods 2-3 inches, in B 
1-14 inches long, } line wide, with 3-nerved valves: style 4-1 line long. Seeds in 
a single row. 
2. §. Thalianum (Gay, An, Sc. Nat. VII.) ; annual, hairy with 
simple or 2~3 forked hairs ; stem erect, branched above ; leaves toothed 
or entire, the radical ones rosulate, narrowed into the petiole, ovate- 
oblong, cauline narrowed at base, uppermost nearly linear ; pods gla- 
brous, Arabis Thaliana, Linn. Sp. 929. E. Bot. t. gos. Sckr. Handb. 
t. 195. Conringia Th., Reich. Arabis Zeyheriana, Turcz. Animadv. 1854. 
p. 22 (No. 1157.) 
Has. Cape Flats, Ecklon / Caledon, Zeyher 1899. Orange River and Caledon an 
River, £. & Z. / Paarlberg and Schneewberg, Drege. Sep. Oct. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 4 
A small, weak-growing plant 6 inches high or more, hispid below, glabrous 
above. Radical leaves 4-2 inches long, 3-8 lines wide ; the cauline few and sessile. 
Racemes lax. Younger pedicels hispidulous. Petals oblong, obtuse. Pods 6-8 
lines long. It varies with a stem hispid to the summit. The Cape and European 
Specimens are quite similar. 
** Flowers yellow : leaves pinnately lobed, the lobes entire or toothed. 
3. S. lyratum (Burm, Fl, Cap, 17) ; stem erect, terete, sprinkled at 
base with simple hairs ; lower leaves hairy, lyrato-runcinate, the lobes 
toothed, upper leaves oblong, glabrous, toothed ; pedicels filiform; pods 
erectopatent, nearly smooth ; seeds ina single row. DC. Syst. 2. p. 471. 
Deless. Ic. Sel. 2. t. 64. = 
Has. Sands by the sea shore. C. L’Agulhas, Swell., £.¢ Z. July. . Sond.) ee 
1-1} feet hight lower leaves 3 pe long, 8-9 lines wide, oe sain ane 
on both sides, pinnati-partite ; the lobes ovate, toothed, the basal ones distinct, the 
upper confluent, the terminal oblong, toothed obtuse. Racemes la Pods 2 
inch long, 3 line wide, hairy ; the valves flattish, 3 nerved ; stigma Sisymb. 
pone of Drege’s Herb. is a little different, but does not seem to be specifically dis- 
4. S, Burchellii (DC. 1.c. p. 472); stem hispid with spreading hairs, 
somewhat branched ; leaves pinnati-partite, hairy, the lobes oblong, 
angulato-repand ; pedicels short, thick ; pods suberect, roughly hairy, 
the seeds in two rows, DC. Prod. 1. p. 193. 
Has. Sackriver, Burchell, Between Shiloh and Windvogelsberg ; at Zeekoe river ; 
at Beaufort, and Rhinosterkopf, Drege / Oct. Novy. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Stems suffruticose, 6-12 inches long, radical and lower leaves 2-21 inch, petiolate, 
with 7-8 lobes at each side ; the upper }—1 inch long, sessile. Racemes elongating. 
Fruitstalks 1-2 lines long, densely pubescent. Petals not much longer than the calyx. 
Pods terete, 10-12 lines long, } line wide, valves 3-nerved ; style short, Seeds very 
rarely uniseriate.. a 
5. 8. Gariepinum (Burch, Cat. Geogr.) ; stem covered. 
simple, and short branching hairs, slightly branched ; the leaves pir 
partite, lobes oblong, toothed, subacute, rough with branching hairs 
