10 VII. CRUCIFER®. 
cotyledons twice folded on the radicle.— FY. Ke 1. ph Boy 
Thes. Cap. t. 166. 
A large woolly South African genus of upwards of sixty species. These 
are distributed under the following sections :— 
1. Leprormus. Pods linear, moniliform ; the beads oval. Herbs. 
2. Ormiscus. Pods linear, moniliform ; beads globose. Herbs. 
3. SELENOCARPE®. Pods oval or suborbicular. Herbs. 
4. ORTHOSELIS. Pods linear, with straight or straightish margins. 
Herbs or shrublets. 
5. PacnysTyLiuM. Pods linear; style short and thick. Pubescent 
half-shrubs. 
6. LancEoLARIA. Pods lanceolate. Glabrous shrublets and half-shrubs. 
14. CARPONEMA, Sond. 
Pod sessile, indehiscent, linear, terete, tapering to each end, 
somewhat constricted between the seeds, with a very thin 
septum, 2-celled, one cell smaller and empty, the other several- 
seeded ; valves hardened, nerveless; style conical. Seeds ma 
single row, oblong, terete, immarginate, separated by cross- 
partitions ; cotyledons twice folded on the radicle.—#7/. Cap. 1. 
p. 35. 
Endemic. 1 species, C. filiforme, Sond., a glabrous or pilose annual, 
12-18 inches high. Leaves linear, the lower long ; racemes long ; flowers 
blue or purple; pods pendulous, 1 inch long.—Found on the Cape flats. 
15. BRACHYCARPZA, DC. 
Sepals equal at base. Pod indehiscent, deeply 2-lobed, with — 
a very narrow septum ; valve very convex, netted and ridged ; 
cells 1-seeded. Seeds with long, lmear cotyledons, spirally 
rolled on the radicle-—!. Cap. 1. p. 33. 
An endemic genus of 2 species, natives of the West and North- West 
districts. Glabrous, half-shrubby perennials, with oblong or linear entire 
leaves ; long leafless racemes, and handsome yellow or purple flower. 
16. CYCLOPTYCHIS, E. Mey. 
Pod hard-shelled, indehiscent, orbicular-ovate, beaked ; sep- 
tum orbicular ; valves somewhat convex, with raised ridges, 
radiating from a prominent keeled centre; seeds solitary in 
each centre ; cotyledons long, linear, twice folded on the ra- 
dicle-—FIl. Cap. 1. p. 834; Thes. Cap, t. 59. 
An endemic genus of 2 species, natives of the Western districts. They 
resemble Brachycarpea in aspect, but differ in fruit. 
17. PALMSTRUCKIA, Sond. 
Pod sessile, orbicular, very much flattened, indehiscent, 1- 
locular, 1-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed, with a mem- 
branous marginal wing; cotyledons linear, incumbent, twice- 
folded. 
