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toothed ; the upper leaves with almost linear lobes. Flowers yellow, very large; no ripe 
fruit. It is closely allied to Ж. pannonicum. 
CoNRINGIA CLAvATA, Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 211. 
Hari-rud valley: 346, April 29, 1885. Abundant all over the country. Dyes the 
hands yellow-green when bruised or broken. 
ERYSIMUM PERSEPOLITANUM, Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 203. 
Khorasan: 687, June 18, 1885. Abundant on the pass south of Bezd, above 6000 feet. 
ERYSIMUM REPANDUM, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 189. 
Hari-rud valley : 195, April 7, 19, 1885. Very common, in the shade of bushes in 
sandy soil. 
ERYSIMUM SISYMBRIOIDES, C. A. Mey.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 188. 
Hari-rud valley ?: 1009. Іп fruit only. No locality nordate. А characteristic plant 
of Central Asia. 
ERYSIMUM, sp. і 
Hari-rud valley : 153, April 2, 1885; Badghis, May 3, 1885. In sandy plains; Gulran, 
profuse. 
No ripe fruit for determination ; nearly allied to Ж. canescens, Benth. 
ERYSIMUM, sp. 
Hari-rud valley : 298, April 21, 1885. 
A tall, much branched perennial, about two feet in height. Common in sandy loamy 
soil, in open plains; very showy when in full flower; flowers large, bright yellow. 
LEPTALEUM FILIFOLIUM, DC.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 243 (L. pygmeum, DC.). 
Hari-rud valley : 159, April 6, 21, 1885 ; May 9, 1885. 
Abundant in shingly places. Flowers the colour of those of Geranium lucidum, Linn. 
CAMELINA SATIVA, Crantz; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 311. 
Badghis: 392, Мау 4, 1885. Оп sandy downs, in abundance. It is not cultivated, 
so far as I could find out, in Afghanistan. 
BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS, Linn.—Subsp. Napus, Linn. (вр.); Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 392. 
Hari-rud valley : 1010, May 11, 1885. Варе; native name Shersham. Cultivated in 
fields for the oil extracted from its seeds, but only of late years to any great extent. | 
BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS, Linn.—Subsp. Rapa, Linn. (sp.); Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 391. 
Hari-rud valley : 244, April 16, 1885. 
The Turnip. Native name Shalgham. Extensively cultivated throughout Afghanistan 
and Persia. At Khusan, in a garden where the cultivator had only a few seeds left 
from last year, he told me he sowed the seed in spring from which, in May, he would 
obtain a good crop of seed (from these my specimens were collected); this he would sow 
in autumn, and this sowing would produce his winter crop of turnips. 
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