4 CRUCIFER/E 



Corydalis lutca DC. A small herb of 6 to 15 inches. 

 Leaves delicate, much divided into narrowly oblong 

 segments of different lengths. Flower yellow, about Yz 

 inch, in short racemes ; spur a roundish sac. Fruit 

 a pod, 54 to ^ inch long with several seeds. 



Nilgiris : as a weed in gardens, etc. Fyson 3861. 



Gen. Dist. Southern Europe, in stony places. 



CRUCIFER/E. 



See Vol. I p. 15, and add : 



NASTURTIUM. F.B.1. 10 v. 



Similar to CARDAMINE (Vol. I p. 17) but pods cylin- 

 drical not flat, and seeds globose in two rows. 

 Species 2 or 3, in temperate and tropical countries. 



Nasturtium officinale Br.\ F.B.I, i 133, V i, Water 

 Cress; is given in Gamble's Flora of the Presidency of 

 Madras i 37, as on the Nilgiris, probably introduced. 



RESEDACE/E. 



A very small family of the temperate parts of the 

 old world. 



RESEDA. F.B.I. 12 I. 



Herbs with alternate, entire or lobed leaves, and 

 glandular stipules. Sepals and petals 4 to 7, the latter 

 unequal, much cut, and posterior one with a membrane 

 above its stalk. Stamens 10 to 40. Ovary one-celled, 

 with three parietal placentas. Fruit a capsule, opening 

 at the top. 



Species about 30, in North Africa and West Asia. 



Reseda luteola L. Mignonette, the common garden 

 plant, is rieported as a weed about Ootacamund. 



