Cardamine.'] Cvuciferce. 53 



pedicels divaricate, without bracts; sep. obtuse; pet. rather 

 longer than sep., narrowed to base ; siliqua f in., cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, tipped with the truncate style, ped. very short; 

 seeds numerous, finely muriculate. 



A weed in damp cultivated ground ; rare, and probably only intro- 

 duced here. Near Badulla, 1890. The C.P. specimens are labelled 

 'Peradeniya, 1862 ; ' Gardner and Walker also collected it. Fl. yellow. 



Common throughout India, Malaya, China, and Japan. 



Nasturtium officinale, Br., the common English watercress, has 

 become naturalised in many small streams in the mountains where inten- 

 tionally introduced. The name ' Kakkuta-pala ' has been given to me 

 by Sinhalese for this, but by Moon (Cat. 13) this native name is applied to 

 his Anagallis esculenta from Uva, which is undetermined. The water- 

 cress is also given by Moon (p. 47) as found naturalised at Kandy. 



2. CARDAMZNZ:, L. 



Herbs ; 1. compound ; sep. 4 ; pet. 4 or o ; stam. 2-6 ; 



fruit a narrow, linear, compressed siliqua, the 2 valves 



separating elastically, septum membranous ; seeds in i row, 



flattened. — Sp. 60 ; 1 1 in Fl. B. hid. 



Leaflets 3 i. C. africana. 



Leaflets 5-7 2. C. subumbellata. 



1. C. africana, L. Sp. PI. \. 655 (1753). 



Hk. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 144. Thw. Enum. 399. C. P. 

 1017. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 137. Wight, Ic. t. 941. 



A small, perennial herb, with an irregular, creeping root- 

 stock, stems erect or decumbent at base, 6 in.- 1 ft. or more, 

 slightly branched, more or less hairy ; 1. trifoliolate, on very 

 long petioles, Iflts. shortly stalked, 1-2 in., ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, tapering at base (the lateral ones often oblique), 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, nearly glabrous, thin ; fl. few in erect 

 racemes at end of stem and branches ; sep. oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; pet. much longer than sep., oval-oblong, clawed ; 

 stam. 6, nearly equal ; siliqua erect, \\-2 in., much tapering to 

 point, smooth, on ped. \ ii^- long. 



Upper montane zone, in shady places ; rather common. Horton 

 Plains; Hakgala ; N. Eliya ; Palagalla ; Maturata. Fl. all the year; 

 whitish or pale sulphur-yellow. 



Also in the Nilgiris, but not the Himalayas or elsewhere in Asia, but 

 in South and Trop. Africa and the island of Bourbon. 



2. C. subumbellata, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. i. 138 (1872). 



C. hirsiita, L., Hk. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 146 (in part); 

 Thw. Enum. 14 (in part). C. P. 2962. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 138. 



A small annual herb, 3-12 in., branched, sparingly hairy. 



