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er leaves lanceolate and more acutely serrate, all smooth on 

 both sides, from one to six or more inches lono-. Racemes 

 terminnl. many-llowered. Flowers small, yellow. Siliques 

 expandino-, linear, transversely compressed, swelled at the 

 seed, hut in other respects smooth, crowned with a short ta- 

 pering, smooth beak. Seeds minute, round, smooth, brown. 

 I cannot learn that the Hindoos make any use of this plant. 



U.S. pnsilla. Roxb. 



Annual, erect, ramoiis. Siliqnes expanding, filiform, 

 smooth ; sliyma sessile. Leaves recurvate, with lobes almost 

 entire. 



Of MJiat part of India this is a native is to me uncertain, T 

 can only say, that it made its first appearance in the Botanic 

 garden, where earth from the Coromandel coast had been 

 spread; of course, I conclude it is from thence. 



Root of about three months' duration. Stem erect, with a 

 few sub-erect branches of nearly the same length, all round 

 and slightly villous; height of the whole plant about a foot 

 and a half in our rich soil of Bengal. Leaves scattered, pe- 

 tioled, between pinnatifid and lobate, with the lobes nearly 

 entire, smooth on both sides, from two to six inches long, and 

 from one to two broad. Racemes leng-thenino-. Floioers 

 minute, yellow. Petals cuneate, scarcely larger, or longer, 

 than the leaflets of the calyx. Style scarcely any, but the 

 germ immediately crowned with the large stigma. Siliqnes 

 expanding, filiform, round, slightly protuberant at the seeds, 

 somewhat villous, no beak, but crowned with the remains of 

 the large scabrous stigma. Seeds oblong, compressed. 



RAPHANUS. Schreh.gen. N. 1098. 

 Calyx closed. Silique torose, sub-articulate, cylindric. 

 Glands one or two between each shorter stamen and pistil, 

 and two between the longer and the calyx. 



