84 VIII. CRUCTFER^. [Lepiditim 



Petals linear. Sepals 2 lines. Stem shrubby . . , . S, L. lepiopefahm. 

 Petals oblong or ovate. Sepals 1-1 J lines. Stem her- 

 baceous. 

 Lobes of the pod longer than the style (about 1 line). 



Valves winged to the base 4. Z. rotnndum. 



Lobes of the pod shorter than tlie &tyle (not ^ line). 



Valves scarcely winged , . 5. L. phi eh op ei alum. 



Petals none. Stamens 4. Pod-wiugs almost united with 



the style 6. X. wofioplocoides. 



Leaves mostly toothed or lobed. PIoAvers very small. Pod- 

 wings small or none, except in L. papillosum. 

 Petals none. Leaves narrow-linear, the upper ones aviricled. 

 Stems, papillose. Stamens 4. Pod about 2 lines long, with 



2 short lobes or wings 7. Z. papillosum. 



Stems glabrous. Leaves linear or cuncate, not auricled, the 

 radical ones pinnatifid. Stamens 2, Pod about 1^ lines, 



scarcely lobed 9. i. ruderale. 



Petals 4j minute . Leaves oblong-cuneate. Stamens 6. Pod 



2i to 3 lines long, with distinct lobes 8. L.foliosunu 



1. 1-. (?) strongylophylltiin, T. Muell. Herb, Apparently slinibby, 

 quite glabrous, with the branches denuded at the base- Leaves in the upper part 

 of the branches, broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, or the upper ones elliptical- 

 oblong, i to f in. long, entire, rather thick, narrowed into a short petiole. 

 Plowcrs unknown. Fruiting raceme evidently dense, with spreading pedicels 

 of about 2 lines, the thick rhachis 1 to near 2 in. long. Pods only known 

 by the persistent replum, which is oblong-lanceolate, nearly 3 lines long, I lii^^ 

 broad in the centre, terminating in a subnlate style of about 1 line, and the 

 scars of a funiele on each side at the upper angle of the replum show that 

 there had been a single pendulous seed in each cell as in otlier Lepdla. 



S. Australia. Jlonnt Vision, on the clay-slate in the N.W. interior, M'Douall 

 Stuart. A very remarkable species, of which the small remains of a pod iu one of the 



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specimens {Hb. F. 3IuelL) have been barely sufficient to give a clue to the genus 



2. L. linifolmm, BentlK Glabrous and erect, 1 to l\ ft. high or more. 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 2 inches long, entire, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole. Plowers large for the genus, apparently pink or nh^c. 

 Sepals' 2^ lines. Petals nearly twice as long, obovate. Fmiting racemes 

 loose, with semi-erect or at length spreading pedicels of 4 to 5 hues. P<^d 

 without the wings nearly orbicular, rather more than 3 lines diameter, very flat- 

 the wings at the top forming a triangular, erect, acute lobe nearly 2 lines long; 

 the subulate style about half their length in the sinus, which is very open. 

 Seeds compressed. Cotyledons linear.— Ze;??/? UnlfoUa, Desv. Journ. Bot. 

 ill, 16G and 181 ; Ueris llneanfolia, DC. Syst, Ycg. ii. 405. 



"Wr. Australia. Sharks Bay, Herd, Mus. Par. ; Flinders Bay, Collie ; Murcliison 

 river, Sapford. 



3. L. leptopetalum^ Z Muell. PL Fid. i. 48. A low, scnibby, niuch- 

 branchcd shrub, quite glabrous. Leaves linear, thick and succulent, almost 

 semiterete, the longer ones -|- to 1 in. long, those of the side branches much 

 smaller. Sepals about 2 lines long. Petals scarcely longer, linear, often 

 ahuost subulate. Stamens 6. Fruiting racemes short and loose, ^'i^|| 

 spreading pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Pod very flat, oval-elliptical, about 6 



