NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 7 
on the Pulney Mountains but not then in flower. The Pulney plant differs in habit from this in having diffuse 
rambling branches. 
BERBERIS (Mazowts) teeta bab (Watt)— 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets ab X pair, — — As this is a true congener of Nuttal’s genus Maho- 
ps is in size, sli ightl eas a the base, repand wa [ preserve that as a subgeneric or sectional 
with 6-8 thorny teeth at each side, about 5- aces at name. The lant isfound in almost every clump of 
the base; lower pair of leaflets close tothestem: jungle about — oe during the South 
racemes elongated, slender; bracteoles at the eer west monsoon but may generally be met with in- 
of the pedicel oblong, obtuse: petals with two distinct flower at other seasons spat more rarely, the fruit 
glands ; filaments without teeth :erry globose, crown- ripens during the dry season and when fully ripe 
ed with the evident style and stigma.—W. and acquire a bluish purple colour. 
A. Prod. p. 16. 
V.—CRUCIFER ©.— Cabbage Tribe. 
This large and most useful family of plants, supplies man with many of his most 
esteemed esculents, among which may be named the whole tribe of cabbages, turnips, rape, 
mustard, cress, scury grass, radish, horse radish, &c., and to the flower garden, wall 
flowers, stocks, candy tuft, honesty and many others. But though it thus abounds in both 
useful and ornamental plants in the temperate regions of the globe, it scarcely merits a place 
in this work, three or four insignificant species being all that are found here where the one 
figured is the best looking ofthe set. Such being the case it seems useless to dilate on a 
family that can possess so little interest for the lovers of the wild flowers of our Blue-moun- 
tains. Though thus rare, even in this temperate climate, the family isa large one including 
little short of 1,500 species. A few however are found in warmer climates, the most curious 
and interesting of which is the so called Rose of Jericho (Anastatica literally resurrection 
flower) a native of the sandy deserts of Arabia, the ends of the branches of which contract 
during dry weather and form a ball which may be taken up and kept in that state for years, 
And at the end of that time, if the roots are immersed in water will re-expand, the flowers 
open, and in a few hours the whole plant appear as if it had never been out of the ground. 
The family derives its name from the Latin word Cruz crucis a cross with reference to 
the four petals spreading in opposite directions so as to form the appearance of a St. Andrew’s 
cross, and by this mark they may always be known at a glance. They have besides six 
stamens four long and two short whence Linnceus derived his name Tetradenamea that is four 
powers, in allusion to the four long stamens. 
CARDAMINE.—LZadies Smock. 
Calyx connivent or somewhat patent, equal at the base, Petals with aclaw; limbentire. Stamens 
: distinct, without teeth. Siliqua sessile, linear, elongated, compressed; valves flat, nerveless, somewhat 
smaller than the incrassated 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 cotyledons (om }—Leaves petioled, entire, lobed, or variously divided, often dif- 
ferent on the same individual. Flowers white or rose-coloured.— W. and A. Prod. p. 19. 
The species of this genus are very numerous and where they abound very ornamental, as for 
* Replum is the f ding the dissepiment, from which the valves fall off, and to which the placente are attached, 
