Nasturtium. CRUCIFERZ. 19 
and the stamens, and ovarium. Ovarium syncarpous, usually bilocular. 
Placentz parietal, usually meeting in the middle, and forming a spu- 
rious dissepiment. Stigmas 2, opposite the placentz, or anterior and 
posterior. Fruit a siliqua or silicule, rarely 1-celled and indehiscent, 
usually spuriously bilocular, and dehiscing by two valves separating 
from the placente; l- or many-seeded. Seeds campulitropous, pen- 
dulous, attached in a single row by a funiculus to each side of the pla- 
cent. Albumen none. Embryo with the radicle folded up on the 
cotyledons, which are next the placenta.— Herbaceous plants, or very 
seldom suffruticose. Leaves alternate. 
The few following are all the species of this order we can introduce. Some others 
are inserted in Wallich's List as coming either from the Peninsula, or found in 
Heynes' or the Madras herbaria: of these Lepidium sativum Linn., Brass.ca oleracea 
Inn., Raphanus sativus Linn., and Eruca sativa Linn., are commonly cultivated, 
but not in igenous ; Sinapis glauca Roxb. ? (Wall. L. n. 4796), and S. brassicata Linn. 
are from the missionaries’ garden ; S. dichotoma Roxb. we have seen in Hamilton’s 
herbarium, but as Wallich does not seem to be certain that the Neelgherry plant 
(Wall. L. n. 4791. b, c.) is the same, we do not give a description of it. Cheiranthus 
maritimus Wall. L. n. 4801. b, is a European plant, cultivated at Veiis. rre 
werent from C. Farsetia Ham. Of Sinapis rugosa and Sinapis levigata of 
lich’s List, we know nothing; the last was OMADA. 80 named, from the Madras 
cm rium, and consequently is probably the same with S. juncea Wall. L. n. 
. Q. 
‘I. NASTURTIUM. . Brown. 
Calyx patent, equal at the base. Petals obovate, entire, or abortive. : Sta- 
mens distinet, not toothed. Stigma somewhat capitate or 2-lobed. Siliqua 
sessile, bilocular, longitudinally dehiscent, nearly terete, sometimes shortened 
80 as to resemble a silicule, usually curved upwards ; valves externally con- 
vex, neither nerved nor keeled: septum entire, broader than the seeds. 
Seeds several, small; irregularly in a double series, obovate-oblong, without 
à border. Radicle applied to the edge of the cotyledons (o==).—Herbaceous 
plants usually aquatics. Leaves often pinnated. Pedicels filiform. Flowers 
yellow or white. 
62. (1) N. Madagascariense (DC.:) annual, branched: root fusiform and 
brous: leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, unequally toothed: pedicels short, very 
patent: petals (yellow) scarcely longer than the calyx : glands of the torus 
minute: siliqua terete, 2-5 times longer than the pedicel, tipped with the 
style, which is about a half shorter than the pedicel, and the 2-lobed sipna, 
—«; Leaves glabrous ; stem firm.— Wight! cat. n. 67.—N. montanum, Wall. ! 
L. n. 4778.—ß; leaves glabrous: stem more flaccid,—Wight ! cat. n. 66.— 
N. Madagascariense, DC. prod. 1. p. 138; Spr. syst. 2. p. 882.—N. Gange- 
ticum, Ham.! in Wall. L. n. 4777 .— y; leaves and stems pubescent.—N. mi- 
cranthum, DC. prod. 1. p. 138; Spr. 2. p. 882.—N. divaricatum, Ham.! in 
Wall. L. n. 4716.— Sisymbrium micranthum, Roth. nov. sp. p. 928.—— 
M and £ from the Neelgherries; y in Heyne's Herbarium, probably from 
ysore. | peccet 
N, diversifolium, Wall. L. n. 4775, judging from Don's character of his JV. 
yllum, which is probably d n gp seems referable to either « or A. 
IL CARDAMINE. Linn.; Lam.ill.t.562; Gertn. fr. t. 143. 
Calyx connivent or somewhat patent, equal at the base. Petals with a 
Claw; limb entire. Stamens distinct, without teeth. "a sessile, linear, 
B 
