Cricifere.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 71 
which, with the peculiar rounded form of its silicule, long funiculus, yellow flowers, and 
Indian locality, might entitle it to form a new genus. It is found all along the banks 
of the Ganges, in Northern India, as high as Hurdwar. 
The Crucifere, one of the most natural of families, presents also the most per- 
fect analogies in respect to sensible and medical properties. Most of the species, 
though of course in different proportions, contain an acrid volatile oil, which renders 
the Indian, as well as the European species, useful as stimulants and. vesicatories, 
a fixed oil in their seeds, for which many of them are cultivated, together with 
azote, fecula, mucilage, and saccharine matter. When the acrid principle is small in 
proportion to the mucilaginous or saccharine matter, many of the Crucifere become, as 
is well known, useful articles of diet. So many of the family being cultivated in the 
cold weather months in India, there is no doubt that others, as both black and white 
mustard, as well as the horse radish, might be grown. The species affording oil forming 
important articles of agriculture to the natives of India, it would be extremely useful to 
ascertain, if the species cultivated in Europe for the same purpose, as Brassica napus 
and campestris, Myagrum sativum and Erysimum perfoliatum in Japan, yield a larger 
quantity or a better quality of oil than that afforded by the Indian species. There is 
little doubt of all succeeding well in the northern provinces of India. satis tinctoria or 
woad, though of little value in a country where indigo is so abundant, was perfectly at 
home in the Mussooree experimental garden. 
The following are a few of the more remarkable plants, above alluded to, of this 
family : 
Farsetia Hamiltonii ; caule herbactd ramoso cum foliis linearibus adpresse pilosis incano, staminibus 
omnibus. edentulis, siliculis elliptico-oblongis adpresse pilosis, pilis glandulosis patentibus intermixtis, 
septis integris, stigmate capitato.—Cawlis teres.—.Racemi axillares terminalesque.—Ca/lyw pilis adpressis 
scaber, marginibus membranaceis.—Petala obovato-cuneata, laminis venosis.—Cheiranthus Farsetia. 
Wall. Cat. 4801. Herb. Hawilt. a ripa Jumnez.—Hab. Western bank of Jumna from Delhi to Agra. 
Drasa.—Sect. 1. Aizopsis. 
D. setosa ; scapis nudis pilosiusculis, foliis’ confertissimis lineari-lanceolatis rigidulis carinatis ciliatis, 
petalis staminibus sequantibus. calyce longioribus, siliculis glabris. pratniehlongis pedicello longioribus 
stylo brevissimo terminatis—Hab. Soongnum in Kunawur. 
Sect. 2. Chrysodraba. 
D. radicans ; caulibus foliosis pilosis, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis integris subdentatisve pube sim- 
plici. adpresse pilosis, surculis repentibus, siliculis oblongis glabris stylo longo terminatis.—Caly« 
basi sub-bisaccatus.—Petala flava subemarginata calyce duplo longiora.—Planta D. repenti affinis— 
Hab. Shalma and Manma. 
Sect. 3. Leucodraba. | 
D. glomerata; scapis 1 v. 2 folia ovata gerentibus, foliis ceteris aggregatis, oblongis basi attenuatis 
integris uti omni parte planta pube stellata tomentosis, siliculis elliptico-oblongis.—Petala alba obovato- 
cuneata calyce duplo longiora.—Silicule stylo brevissimo, stigmate capitato terminate.—Planta D. 
stellate affinis—Hab. Soongnum. 
D: lasiophylla; foliis radicalibus ovali-oblongis basi attenuatis pube stellata cano-tomentosis, scapis 
folia 1-v. duo. gerentibus, racemis corymbosis demum elongatis, siliculis ovali-oblongis pubescentibus 
corolla longioribus post florescentiam valde contortis—Planta D, stellate affinis—Hab. Shalkur and 
Lippa. 
Sect. 4. Holarges. 
7 _ D. lanceolata ; 
