Lepidium.] _ CRUCIFERZ (Sond.) 29 
Stem generally 1-2 feet high. Radical leaves narrowed into a petiole ; lower 
cauline-1} 2 inches long, 1-13 lines wide, acuminate ; in 6 3 lines wide, and with 
2-4 teeth near the point ; upper shorter, Fruiting racemes often much elongated. 
Pedicels spreading, 13-2 lines long. Flowers minute. Pods 1} lines long; style 
very short, not projecting beyond the tips of the cells. Known from L. myriocar- 
pum, by its thrice larger and subemarginate silicules. 
** All the leaves, or at least the lower ones, pinnatifid, the wpper toothed or entire. 
4. L. Capense (Thunb. Prod. 107.); very thinly pubescent ; stem terete, 
decumbent at base, then erect and branching ; radical leaves oblong ser- 
rate ; lower cauline pinnatifid, middle ones serrated, uppermost entire ; 
pods elliptic-ovate, subemarginate, with a very short style. Zhwnd. 
Fil. cap. 491. DC. lc. p. 552. L. Eckloni, Schrad. E. & Z. No. 41. 
L. flecuosum, E. & Z. 42. Un. Ib. No. 459. 
Var. 8. sylvaticum ; stem taller and more erect ; cauline leaves wider, 
serrate, narrowed at base. L. sylvaticum, E. & Z. 37. L. subdentatum, 
Meisn. Pl. Krauss. 
Has. Hills and waste places, near Capetown, common. Thunb. Ecklon, &c. 
Cape L’Agulhas Mundt. ; Port Elizabeth, FE. & Z. Zondag river, Drege ; Albany, 
T. Williamson. B. hills near Adow, Zeyher, Zitzekamma, Krauss. Omsamwubo, 
Drege. Jun.—Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Meisn. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Stems 6-12 inches long, branches spreading, root-leaves petioled, 2 inches long ; 
lower cauline 2-3 inches, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes ovate or oblong, acute, 
toothed ; the middle one lanceolate, narrowed at base, 1}-2 lines wide, toothed or 
serrate ; the uppermost entire or somewhat toothed. Fruiting racemes 3-4 inches 
long 3 pedicels 1} lines long, spreading. Fl. minute. Young pod ovate, apiculate ; 
the ripe elliptical-ovate, minutely notched ; style as long as the points of valves, or 
a little longer. Var. 8. is taller, with broader, mostly obtuse and serrate leaves. 
5. L. Africanum (DC. 1. c. p. 552); glabrous or sparsely puberu- 
lous ; stem erect, terete, somewhat angled above, branching ; radical 
leaves lyrato-pinnatisect, lobes cut, the terminal one very large, middle 
ones pinnatisect or deeply cut, upper entire ; pods elliptic-ovate, scarcely 
emarginate, with avery short style. Deless. Ic. 2. t. 73. L. subdentatum, 
LE. & Z.! 39, non. Burch. L. capense, E. & Z. 43, non Thunb. L. diva- 
ruatum, E. § Z. 44, non Ait. Sisymb. serratum, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 
496 & Herb. : or asa eke 
Has. In fields and shrubby . Lion’s Mt., Sieber, Zwartkops R. and at the 
Knysna, George ; and Win \d, Beauf., Z.&@ Z. Nov. (Herb. Thunb., Sond.) 
Very Riboe last, and chiefly distinguished by the taller, 11s 
stem, more divided radical, and more deeply cut cauline leaves. Stem 1} feet. 
Radical leaves 2-3 inch long, the terminal lobe ovate, serrate, the lower lobes 2-4 
pairs, ovate-toothed or inciso-multifid : cauline leaves 1} inches long, some pinnati- 
fid, some inciso-serrate. Uppermost leaves 6-8 lines long, narrow. Fruiting 
raceme 3-6 inches long: ripe pouch 1} lines long. 
6. L. desertorum (E. & Z. No. 40) ; annual, small, glabrous or mi- 
nutely puberulent ; stems ascending, erect, slightly branched ; radical 
leaves and lowermost stem-leaves petiolate, pinnatifid ; upper linear, 
entire or toothed ; pods cordate-ovate, tipped with a stigma ; the septum — 
open (fenestrate). L. fenestratum, E. Mey. ! Herb. Drege. 
Has. In high Karroo districts, near Gauritz river, Swell., Z. & Z.! 
keel, ovr (34.) Zilverfontein, Oct. ; and Zwarteberg, June, Drege. 
Quire Ray 
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