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Raphanus, TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA, 125 
er leaves lanceolate and more acutely serrate, all smooth on 
both sides, from one to six or more inches long. Racemes 
terminal, many-flowered. Flowers small, yellow. Siliques 
expanding, linear, transversely compressed, swelled at the 
seed, but in other respects smooth, crowned with a short ta- 
pering, smooth beak, Seeds minute, round, smooth, brown, 
I cannot learn that the Hindoos make any use of this plant. 
11. S. pusilla, Roxb. 
Annual, erect, ramous, Siliques expanding, filiform, 
smooth ; ss sessile, . Leaves recurvate, with lobes almost 
entire. } : 
Of what part of India this is a native is to me bine 
can only say, that it made its first appearance in the Botanic _ 
garden, where earth from the Coromandel coast had been 
spread ; of course, I conclude it is from thence. 
Root of about three months’ duration, Stem erect, with a 
few sub-erect branches of nearly the same length, all round 
and slightly villous; height of the whole plant about a foot 
and a half in our rich soil of Bengal. Leaves scattered, pe- 
tioled, between pinnatifid and lobate, with the lobes nearly 
entire, smooth on both sides, from two to six inches long, and 
from one to two broad. Racemes lengthening. Flowers 
“minute, yellow. Petals cuneate, scarcely larger, or longer, 
than the leaflets of the calyx. . Style scarcely any, but the | 
germ immediately crowned with the large stigma. Siliques 
expanding, filiform, round, slightly protuberant at the seeds, 
somewhat villous, no beak, but crowned with the remains of 
the large scabrous _— Seeds _— compressed, 
om RAPHANUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1098. 
Géign closed, Silique torose, sub-articulate, cylindric. — 
Glands one or two between each shorter stamen and pa: § 
and two betes the pana and the seca 4 sts 
