20 CRUCIFERJE. . CAPSELLA. 
elongated, compressed ; valves flat, nerveless, somewhat smaller than the in- 
crassated replum,* from which they usually separate elastically. Style short, 
or none: stigma nearly simple. Seeds ovate, without a border, forming a 
single series: podosperms slender. Radicle applied to the edge of the coty- 
ledons (o=).—Leaves petiole, dentire, lobed, or variously divided, often dif- 
ferent on the same individual. Flowers white or rose-coloured. 
63. (1) C. Borbonica ( Pers. :) leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets hairy on both sides, 
particularly on the nerves beneath, petioled, ovate acuminated, unequal at the 
base, irregularly and sharply toothed, terminal one sometimes 3-lobed or di- 
vided into 3 leaflets similar to the others: siliqua erect.— DC. prod. 1. p. 1505 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 885 ; Wight! cat. n. 69.—C. Wightiana, Wall.! L. n. 4/80.—— 
Neelgherries, in moist marshy ground about Ootacamund, at an elevation of 
about 8000 feet. 
64. (2) C. hirsuta (Linn.:) leaves all pinnated: leaflets of radical leaves 
petiolate, roundish ; upper stem leaves oblong, nearly sessile; lower pair of 
both distant from the stem: stamens 4-6, equal in length to the oblong pe- 
tals: petals sometimes not so long, sometimes longer than the calyx: stigma 
nearly sessile.—2 C. / prod. 1. p. 152; Spr. syst. 2. p. 887; Wall.! L. n. 4781; 
Wight ! cat. n. 70, 71, 72. Neelgherries. 
Found all over the world, and varying a good deal according to soil, mois- 
ture, and exposure. C. Pensylvanica, Virginica, teres, sylvatica, umbrosa, 
and perhaps parviflora of De Candolle and other authors, are referable to this 
species. 
HI. SINAPIS. Linn. ; Gertn. fr. t. 143. 
Calyx equal at the base, patent. Limb of the petals obovate. Stamens 
distinct, entire. Siliqua somewhat terete, 2-celled, 2-valved, (sometimes of 
two joints, of which the upper is without valves, resembling a beaked style). 
Seeds in a single series in each cell, globose. Cotyledons folded, containing 
the radiele in the fold (conduplicate o >>).—Herbaccous, rarely suffru- 
tescent plants, with yellow flowers. | 
65. (1) 8. juncea Cee) glabrous, lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, deeply 
serrated ; upper ones lanceolate, attenuated at the base, quite entire: branches 
fascicled: siliqua somewhat erect ; upper joint valveless, awl-shaped, desti- — 
tute of seeds—DC. ! prod. 1. p. 218 ; Spr. syst.2. p. 912 ; Wall. ! L. n. 47945 
Wight! cat. n. 68.—Neelgherries, and Dindygul mountains; perhaps not — 
truly indigenous. : 
IV. CAPSELLA. Ventn. ; Lam. ill. t. 557. f. 9.; Schk. Handb. 2. t. 180. 
Calyx equal at the base. Petals entire. Stamens not toothed. Silicule — 
compressed, triangular, truncate at the apex: septum membranaceous, nearly — | 
linear; valves compressed, keeled (or navicular) but not winged at the back. 
Seeds many in each cell, without a border. Cotyledons linear, with the ra- 
dicle at their back (o||).—Annual. Radical leaves rosulate, toothed, cut 
or variously lobed; stem leaves few, erect, oblong, sagittate at the basé. 
Racemes terminal, elongated: pedicels filiform, much longer than the pod — 
Flowers small white. e 
66. (1) C. Bursa-pastoris (Msench.)—DC. ! Ll * ; EOM 
4797 ^ desc fend Oo thine E. EE Ahly Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 879.——Mountainous districts. 
* Replum is the frame surrounding the disepiment, from which the valves fall off, and to which the — — 
