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Seeds reticulate and pitted, rather large. 



Leaves entire or siuuate-toothed, the stem ones sagittate. 



Plant of 2 to 5 ft. . . . '. . . 1. C. stylosa. 



Lower leaves pinnate, all petiolate. Plant erect, under 2 ft, 2. C. dict^osperma. 

 Seeds smooth. 

 Perennials. 



Fruiting racemes short, leafy. Pod fully 2 lines broad . 3. C. radicata. 

 Fruiting racemes loose, leafless. Pod not above 1 line broad. 

 Flowers rather large, with obovate spreading petals. 



Style 1 to \\ line long • 5. (7. tenuifolia. 



Stigma sessile or nearly so 6. C. hirsntaheteroplij/Ua^ 



Flowers very small, with narrow erect petals , , , . 4. (7. ladniata. 

 Annuals. 



Petals conspicuous, obovate, spreading 6. O.UrmtaheierophjlU. 



Petals very narrow, small, nearly erect. 



Seeds nearly the breadth of the septum, in a single row 6. (7. kirsida. 

 Seeds numerous, small, almost biseriate. Valves of the 



pod convex ' ^. C. eusUjlis. 



1. C. stylosa, DC. SysL Teg. ii. 248. A rather coarse glabrous herb, 

 Lrancliing and decumbent or nearly erect, usually 2 to 3 ft. high and some- 

 times attaining 5 ft. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire or sinuate, and mi- 

 nutely but remotely toothed, the lower ones narrowed into a long petiole, the 

 upper ones sessile but narrow below the middle and clasping the stem by 

 their sagittate base, the longest 3 to 5 in, long. Flowers small, white, witli 



obovate spreading petals. Fruiting racemes long and rather rigid, the peui- 

 cels very spreading, 3 to 4 lines long. Pods 1 to H in. long and f to 1 bii^ 

 broad, with a very faint neiTe on the valves. Seeds oval, dark-coloured, re- 

 ticulated with raised longitudinal nerves and transverse pits between tliem. 

 Hook. f. n. Tasm. i, 18 ; F. Muell. PL Vict. i. 34 ; Jrabis giganlea. Hook. 

 Ic, t. 259; 0, divaricala, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. ZeL i, 13. 



N. S. TVales. Mount Lindsay, 7F. HilL 



Victoria, Moist forest valleys, rare in open pastiu-c laud near the banks of rivers iii 

 various parts of Gipps' Land, also in the Dandenong ranges, ¥, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Northern and eastern coasts near the sea, J. D. Hooker ; ascending to 

 alpine elevations on "Mount Wellington, Oldfield ; also in New Zealand. 



This species has as much the churactcrs of Ar a 5 is as of Cardamine, but the habit isratne 

 that of the latter genns. 



2. C. dictyosperma. Hook. Jonrn. Bot. i. 246. Erect or branchiiig 

 and decumbent at the base, glabrous or Avith a few hairs at the base, under ^ 

 ft. high. Lower leaves pinnatelj divided into a few distant, ovate or oblong, 

 entire or toothed segments, the terminal one usually much the largest; i^PF^ 

 leaves with narrower and fewer lobes, or small, narrow, and entire, all petio- 

 late, with tlie petiole scarcely dilated at the base and rarely sagittate. Flowers 

 larger tlmn in C, sbjlosa, the lamina narrow-obovate, usually longer than the 

 claw. Fruiting racemes long, the pedicels very spreading, 2 to 5 lines long- 

 Pod usually longer and more slender than in C. stylosa, and sometimes at- 

 tainhig 2 in. but sometimes only 1 in. ; style from | to 3 lines long. Seeds 

 of C. stylosa, but Avith coarser reticulations. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 1^^ ^' 

 Muell. PL Vict. i. 35 and 221 ; C. nwea. Hook. Comp. Bol, Mag. i- 273. 



W. S. MTales, Moist rocky places north of Bathurst, A. Cvniiingham ; Severn n 

 New England. C. Stuart , from Clarence river. Heckler, to Twofold Bay, F. Mv.rller, 



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