86 DR. 7. E. T. AITCHISON ON THE BOTANY OF 
BRASSICA, sp. | 
Hari-rud valley: 276, April 17, 19, 27, 1885. Native name Gul-zard. Common 
throughout the valley on stony soil, but especially near sheepfolds. 
А. coarse annual, from one to three feet in height, with numerous branches covered 
more or less densely with long white hairs. 
BRASSICA, sp. 
Hari-rud: 1011, April, 10, 1885. A small annual species; leaves glaucous ; no fruit. 
We were unable to match it. 
ERvucA sativa, Lam.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 996. 
Hari-rud valley : 225, 261, April 13, 16, 1885; Khorasan: June 5,1885. Native name 
Mandao. Cultivated largely, both in Afghanistan and Persia, for its seed, from which 
oil is extracted. 
LEPIDIUM AUCHERI, Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 854. 
Hari-rud valley: 451, Мау 12, 1885; June 6, 1885. Іп abundance where rain-water 
had accumulated in shallow pools on a clay deposit, forming a dense sward closely 
appressed to the ground. 
LEPIDIUM LATIFOLIUM, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 359. 
Hari-rud valley: 607, June 5, 1885. This widely-spread coarse weed was not 
uncommon near villages and cultivation. 
LEPIDIUM DRABA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 356. 
Hari-rud valley : 315, April 25, 1885. Native name Bijindak. Profuse near villages 
and in cultivated land; a common corn-weed. Тһе leaves are collected and eaten as a 
pot-herb. 
LEPIDIUM CRASSIFOLIUM, Waldst. & Kit.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. р. 857. 
Hari-rud valley ?: 1012. Хо locality nor date attached to the specimen of this 
remarkable thick-leaved plant. 
LEPIDIUM PERFOLIATUM, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 962. 
Hari-rud valley : 284, April 12, 19, 1885. Abundant in lands from which the river had 
retired in spring. А very pretty and curious species, remarkable for the two very 
different forms of leaves it bears. 
. ÆTHIONEMA CRISTATUM, DC.; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 352. 
Hari-rud valley: 280, April 13, 19, 1885; Badghis: Мау 1, 16, 1885. 
А small annual species which is not common, or else it js very easily overlooked. 
HELDREICHIA LONGIFOLIA, Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 319. 2. 
Badghis : 516, Мау 19, 1885; Mt. Do-shakh : August 5, 1885. А remarkable plant, 
_ with numerous slender twiggy flowering stems rising from a tuft of plantain-like leaves, 
_ Flowers white. 
