Senebiera.| CRUCIFER® (Sond.) 27 
Sub-tribe II. Leprmpivez. 
Pod (silicula ), with a very narrow septum ; the valves either keeled 
or very convex. Seeds one or several in each cell, ovate, immarginate. 
IX. SENEBIERA, DC. 
Sepals patent, equal at base. Petals very short. Stamens 2-4-6. 
Silicula didymous, subcompressed, indehiscent ; valves subglobose, 
Tugose or crested, cells one seeded. Cotyledons* long and linear, 
obliquely curved. DO. Prod. 1. p. 202. 
Widely dispersed, littoral, annual or biennial herbs, often prostrate. Leaves 
entire or pinnatisect. Racemes opposing the leaves, short ; the flowers minute, 
white. Whole plant strongly pungent. Name in honour of M. Senebier, a distin- 
guished Genevese physiologist. 
* Pods deeply emarginate at the apex, 
1. S. linoides (DC. Syst. 2. p. 522, excl. syn.); glabrous ; stem erect, 
branched ; leaves Unear, entire, acute ; pods subcompressed, didymous, 
netted with raised lines. Coronopus linoides, H. Mey ! in Herb. Drege b. 
Has. Banks of the Gariep, at Verleptpram, Drege. Sep. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
More than a foot high, somewhat glaucous, with rodlike branches. Leaves lanceo- 
late-linear, narrowed at base, nerveless, the lower 11 inches long, 1-1} lines wide ; 
upper shorter and narrower. Racemes 3-4 inch long. Stamens 2. Silicle depressed, 
as in 8. didyma, but smaller ; valves turgid, delicately reticulate. Very similar in 
aspect to Lepidiwm linoides, Thunb. ; but with very different fruit. 
2. 8. Heleniana (DC. 1. c. p. 523); pubescent ; stem prostrate, branch- 
ing ; lower leaves pinnati-partite, with cut lobes, upper linear or divided 
in few lobes ; pods subcompressed, didymous, netted with raised lines. 
C. linoides, a, E. Mey. ! eka 
Has. Dry hills at Ebenezer, Drege! Nov. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
A small annual. Stems many from the same crown, 2-5 inches long, sprinkled 
with thickish but very short hairs or glabrescent. Leaves glabrous ; the radical 
uncial, with a linear rachis ; cauline 6 lines long, some entire wider at the tip, — 
others lobed, the lobes linear. Fruiting racemes 1-2 inch long. Fl. and fr., as in 
. 
3. S. did: Pers. Ench, 2. p. 185) ; hairy ; stem prostrate, branch- 
ing ; Heer bral Roh their sees oblong or somewhat cut ; pods 
compressed didymous, netted with raised lines. S. pinnatifida, DC. l. c. 
P. 523. H.& Z.! No. 36. Lepidium didymum, Linn. Mant, 92. Coron. 
didyma, E. Bot. t. 248. C. incisa, Hornm. 
Has. Waysides and on rubbish, about Capetown, Oct. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Stems somewhat hairy, pilose or glabrescent, 6-15 inches long. Lobes of the 
leaves ovate or oblong, entire, toothed or deeply cut. Racemes 1-2 inches long. 
Petals very small or none. Stamens 2, 4, or 6. Pod as in the preceding, but larger 
and more coarsely netted. 
2 : ** Pods entire (not emarginate ) at the apex. : 
4 §. Coronopus (Poir. Dict. 7, 76.) ; leaves pinnati-lobed, the lobes oS : 
Spirolobee ; but the genus is retained among Lepidinea, use in habit. 
gency it resembles the cresses ; while it is very unlike Brachycarpea. — 
