124 TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Sinapis. 



pinnatifid, with winged petioles, embracing- the stem. Pedi- 

 cels diverging. Ca/i/v as long as the corol. Siliques cylin- 

 dric, smooth, incurved ; seeds very numerous. .S^j^rma sessile. 



Bene/. BJi, or junglee rayee. 



A wild species, a native of Bengal, where it appears dur- 

 ino- the hot and cold seasons, in moist cool places. 



Boot annual. Stem erect, furrowed. Brnnches several, 

 nearly as large as the stem itself, issuing from its base, and 

 in luxuriant plants, again furnished with several smaller ones. 

 Leaves pinnatifid, witli the lobes unequal, and variously den- 

 tate, and not very smooth, free from every kind of pubes- 

 cence, from one to six inches long. Petioles winged, and at 

 the base the wings are enlarged into rounded, stem-clasping 

 lobes. Racemes shorter than in most other species. Pedicels 

 expanding, about a quarter of an inch long, round, smooth. 

 Flotoers small, yellow. Petals cuneate, as long as the calyx 

 only. Stamens longer than the corol. Style none. Stigvia 

 sessile on the germ. Siliques spreading much, almost diverg- 

 ing, cylindric, smooth, incurved, without beak. Seeds very 

 small, and very numerous, brown, rough. 



I do not find any use made of this plant or its seed. 



10. S. patens. R. 



Annual. Siliques linear, spreading, transversely compress- 

 ed : beak short and tapering. Leaves from obovate-cuneate 

 (o lanceolate, serrate, smooth. Stem and branches smooth. 



Beng. Keel-rayee. 



This species is a common weed amongst other small, wild 

 annual plants in gardens, cultivated fields, &c. in the vicinity 

 of Calcutta, where it appears during the rains and blossoms 

 in the cold season. 



Boot annual. Stem erect, short, smooth, dividing into nu- 

 merous, alternate, smooth, expanding branches and branch- 

 lets ; height of the whole plant from six to eighteen inches. 

 Leaves short-petioled, the lower ones from obovate to oblong; 

 marffins irregular and grossly serrate ; the superior or narrow- 



