30 _CRUCIFER (Sond.) [Lepidiwm. 
A small plant, 4-5 inches high. Toot leaves 13-2 inch long, pinnatifid, with 
3-4 subdentate lobes at each side, the terminal larger, 3-6 lines long. Raceme 
4-1 inch: pedicels 1 line long. Pouches scarcely 3 line long, as long as broad. 
Differs from the others by the shape of its pouches. 
7. L. pinnatum (Thunb. Prod. 107) ; tall, glabrous, stem erect, diva- 
ricately branched ; leaves all pinnatifid, the lobes divaricate, acute, sub- 
dentate, the uppermost entire or toothed ; pods oval, subemargunate, 
Thunb, Fl. Cap. p. 491.; L, divaricatum, Ait. Kew. 1. vol, 2. p. 441 
Thlaspi divaricatum, Poir. 
Has. Fields, near Capetown, Thunberg, W.H.H. ——— Zeyher. 
Paarlberg, 1-2000 ft., Drege (L. capense, E. Mey.!) June. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., 
aCe: s 
1-2 feet high. Leaves mostly fasciculate, 13-2 inch long, petiole uncial, rachis 
narrow, lobes 3 at each side, patent, entire or few toothed, 1-2 lines wide; 
stem leaves similar, uppermost subentire. Racemes elongating ; pedicels 1-1} lines 
long: Flowers very minute. Pouches 1 line long, subemarginate, the style as long 8 
e notch, 
8. L. trifureum (Sond. Linn. 23. p. 4.) ; suffruticose, erect, quite gla- 
brous ; leaves linear-subulate, channelled, three forked, the lobes execto- 
patent, acute ; pods oblong-ovate, slightly emarginate, with a very short 
style, equalling the notch. Zey. 23. 
Has. Rocky places at Modder River, Bekuana Land, Feb., Burke and Zeyher. 
Winterveld and a ccteteeld, Nov., Drege. (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) igh 
Stem 1-14 feet, with virgate branches, ramulose at the end. Stem leaves mos? y 
crowded, 3-forked, the lateral lobes 1-1} lines, terminal 2~3 lines long ; rarely wi 
§ lobes, pinnately disposed. Upper leaves trifid or entire. Fruiting racemes 2-3 
inches long ; pedicels 1-1} lines. Pouch 1 line long. ‘Fl. minute. 
9. L. hirtellum (Sond.) ; suffruticose ; stem and leaves rough with 
very short hairs ; lower leaves oblong, serrate, naxrowed into the petiole, 
middle and upper ones pinnatipartite, the lobes and rachis linear, very 
entire ; pods elliptical, slightly emarginate, with a very short style, 
equalling the notch. ZL. pinnatum, FE. & Z. ! 45, non Thunb. 
are Near pools,  Valleyen,” in Quaggasflats, Uitenhage. Jul. @ 2. (Herb. . | 
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A all slightly branched plant. ‘Lower leaves uncial, 2 lines wide, serrated : 
all the rest pinnatifid, uncial, the rachis scarcely } line wide, with 3-4 lobes at eae 
side, 2 lines long. Racemes 2 inches long, the rachis and pedicels hairy, at length 
glabrescent. Pouch glabrous, 1 line long. 
10. L. bipinnatum (Thunb. Prod. 107); stems erect, decumbent a 
base, simple, velvety ; radical leaves bipinnati-partite, eith filiform lobes ; 
cauline linear, trifid at the summit, the uppermost entire ; pods (young) 
evidently apiculate. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 491. DC.1.c. p. 553- 
_- Has. Onderste Roggeveld, Dec., Thunberg, (Herb. Thunb. 
Stems 3 or more, terete, compressed at ago jee ie: Radical leaves 
crowded, 2-24 inches long ; the petiole s—1} inch, canaliculate, dilated at base, the 
lamina uncial, multipartite, the petiolulate, secund, lobules subulate, 1 line — 
long. Cauline leaves remote, 4-2 lines. Flowering racemes corymbose, short, ~ 
pedicels 1-15 lines long. Sepals obtuse, membrane-edged. Petals minute. Young 
pod ovate, tipped with a short style and obtuse stigma. 
“Lepiiom cape” E.Mey. in Merk, Droge ia peaps a new pecion allel 
