VII. CRUCIFERZ. 9 
9, LEPIDIUM, Linn. 
Sepals equal at base. Pod ovate or subcordate ; the valves 
keeled; cells 1-seeded. Seeds 3-cornered or compressed.— 
Fl. Cap. i. p. 28. 
The garden Cress (Z. sativum) is the type of this widely-dispersed 
genus. Sonder enumerates 10 species in Fl. Cap. These are weed-like 
plants, with entire or variously and irregularly-cut leaves and small flowers 
in terminal elongating racemes. 
10. CAPSELLA, Vent. 
Sepals flattish, equal at base. Pod triangular or wedge- 
shaped, the valves boat-shaped, wingless ; cells many-seeded.— 
Fl. Cap. i. p. 31. 
1 species, Shepherd’s-purse, a common weed throughout the temperate 
zones ; introduced from Kurope. 
11. BRASSICA, Linn. 
Sepals erect or spreading, the lateral often saccate at base. 
Filament toothless. Pod long, subterete, with a beak (some- 
times indehiscent and 1-seeded); the valves convex, 1-3- 
nerved, the lateral nerves often flexuous ; septum membranous 
or spongy. Seeds 1-seriate, subglobose or oblong; cotyle- 
dons broad, conduplicate (0 >>).—Fl. Cap.i. p.3. Also Sina- 
pis, Koch; Fl. Cap. i. p. 32. 
Cabbage, Turnip, Mustard, etc. Mostly biennials, natives of the tempe- 
rate zones. Lower leaves petioled, lyrate or pinnatifid; cauline sessile, 
subentire. Racemes elongate ; flowers yellow.—4: South African species. 
12. CHAMIRA, Thunb. 
Calyx 2-spurred at base. Pod substipitate, oblong, com- 
pressed, with a subulate beak. Seeds compressed, immargi- 
nate ; cotyledons elongate, twice folded on the radicle.— #7. 
Cap. i. p. 32. 
Endemic. C. cornuta, the only species, is a weakly, glabrous annual. 
Lower leaves opposite, reniform-cordate, 2 inches long, 3-4 inches wide ; 
upper alternate deeply cordate, the uppermost acuminate. Flowers small, 
white.—About Simon’s Town and near Saldanha Bay. 
13. HELIOPHILA, Linn. 
Sepals equal at base. Filaments of lateral stamens simple, 
or with a tooth near the base. Pod sessile or stipitate, dehis- 
cent, long or short, compressed, linear, oblong or lanceolate, the 
margins straight or undulate ; valves 1-3-nerved, flattish, mostly 
membranous ; septum hyaline; style short or long; stigma 
2-lobed. Seeds many or few, sometimes solitary, 1—2-seriate ; 
