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tles underneath, and beyond the middle divides like the radii 
of a fan, which alone readily distinguishes this species while 
young from all the other sorts | have yet met with. Floral 
leaves linear, and mostly entire. Racemes terminal, &e. 
_ as in the other species. #/owers numerous, bright yellow, 
_ Siliques short-peduncled, expanding, linear, obscurely four- 
sided, torose; beak short and subulate. Seeds from ten to 
twenty in both cells, small, round, dark brown, pitted. 
It approaches nearer to S. brassicata than to any other 
species I am acquainted with, The young plant possesses a 
warm agreeable taste, and makes excellent sallad. 
8. S. erysimoides. Roxb, : 
Annual, erect, with divaricating branches and branchlets. 
All the leaves petioled, serrate and smooth, from Jyrate to 
pinnatifid, and lastly, linear-lanceolate. Si/iques short, four- 
sided, smooth, short-beaked, adpressed to the raceme. 
The seeds were sent from Wynaad, a province of Malabar, 
by Captain Dickinson, to the Botanic garden, where the 
plants thrive luxuriantly during the cold season ; it blossoms 
in February and March, and the seed ripens soon after. 
Stem annual, erect, or nearly so; branches and branchlets 
numerous, diverging, smooth, often deeply tinged with red, 
- or purple; general height of the whole plant from three to 
four feet. Leaves petioled, serrate and smooth, the larger « or 
inferior are lyrate, with the large terminal lobe thereof deep- 
ly and variously divided, advancing upwards they become — 
_ Tess and less cut, till at last they are simply lanceolate, Ra- 
cemes terminal, &c. as in the other species. Petioles obovate, 
winged, lengthof theealyx. Siliques short-peduncled, linear, 
four-sided, torose, smooth, adpressed to the racemes, as in 
: Sanapis nigra ; beak short, subulate, headed, Seeds about 
ight — Salve: in each cell, 
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