116 TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Brassica, 
like thé leaves, but smaller, one-flowered. Flowers large, of 
a beautiful bluish colour, Coro/ sub-campanulate. Anthers, 
both pairs double, and connected. 
The plant possesses a considerable share of fragrance. 
CLASS XV. 
TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 
LEPIDIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1077. 
Silicle emarginate, cordate, many-seeded. Valves keeled, 
contrary. = 
ie Be Thlaspi. ee 
Annual, erect. Primary leaves sub-petioled, superior, with 
stem-clasping, sagittate base, all more or less cuneate, lance- 
_ olate, and remotely serrate. Flowers tetradynamous, Sili- 
cles round, with a broad thin border, 
- A native of Nepal i in corn fields, during the cool season. 
2. L, sativum. Willd. iii, 435. 
Flowers oes Sosa ee Leaves bles picares 
Pers. Seereezak, 
Beng. Halim, 
Arab, Reshad. 
_ Universally cultivated inthe warmer parts of Asia, during: 
the cool season. , 
TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. = 
BRASSICA. Schreb. gen. N. 1096. 
Calyx erect, converging. Seeds globular. A gland | rs 
tween the shorter stamens and pistil, and between the be ever 
and the calyx. ints 
