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5. MORICANDIA, DC. 



Branched herbs, often woody at the base, glaucous, glabrous. Leaves 

 entire, amplexicaul or pinnatisect. Flowers large, violet, purple or 

 rosy. Sepals erect, the lateral saccate at the base. Petals clawed. 

 Pods linear, elongate, with or without a flattened, 1-seeded beak ; 

 valves flat or bluntly keeled ; stigmatic lobes united into a short cone. 

 Seeds numerous, 1-2-seriate, compi'essed, sometimes winged ; cotyledons 

 incumbent, conduplicate. — Distbib. The Mediterranean region, Arabia, 

 W. Asia ; species about 5. 



1. Moricandia tortuosa, H. f. 4' Thorns, in Jovrn. Linn. Soc. 

 V. 5 (1861) p. 17'2. "Whole plant glaucous and glabrous. Leaves thick, 

 mucronate ; the lower petioled, 2-5 by 1-2 in., elliptic-obovate, acute or 

 acuminate, cuneate at base, attenuated into the petiole, the margins 

 sinuato-crenate ; the upper stem-leaves sessile, lanceolate. Flowers 

 large, erect, in long few-flowered racemes ; buds ellipsoid, acuminate ; 

 pedicels ^ in. long. Sepals up to i in. long, linear-oblong, acute. 

 Petals obovate, pale rose-colored, about twice as long as the sepals. 

 Pods linear, elongate, subterete, striate; beak subcylindric, ^ in. long; 

 style short, conical. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, with an ear-shaped wing at 

 the base and microscopically margined on the sides, chestnut-brown. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 15S ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 122. 



Si\D : Woodrow. 



6. CAPSELLA, Medik. 



Annual, branched, often weak herbs, glabrous or hairy. Eadical 

 leaves rosulate, entire, lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers racemed, small, 

 white ; pedicels slender. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals 

 short. Stamens fi'ee, not toothed. Pods obcordate, cuneate, laterally 

 compressed ; valves boat-shaped, keeled ; septum membranous : style 

 short. Seeds numerous, 2-seriate, ellipsoid ; cotyledons incumbent. — 

 DisxBiB. Temperate regions of both hemispheres ; species 6. 



1. Capsella Bursa-pastorisj Aledil: PJlanzen. (1792) p. 85. An 

 erect herb, G-24 in. high, glabrous or hairy ; branches terete. Leaves : 

 the radical rosulate, 2-4 (including the petioles if present) by g-l in., 

 oblong, acute or oblanceolate, toothed or inciso-pinnatilid, the lobes 

 acute on both sides, sometimes entire ; stem-leaves distant, 1-2| in. long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, amplexicaul, hastate or sagittate at the base with 

 acute parallel or diverging auricles. Flowers at flrst corymbose, after- 

 wards elongating into a raceme 8 9 in. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse. 

 Petals oblanceolate, white, about half as long again as the sepals. Pods 

 glabrous, ^ in. long, by \-\ in. broad at top; pedicels slender, smooth, 

 terete, ebracteate. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid, reddish-brown. Fl. B. I. 

 V. ],p. 159 ; Moench, Method. PI. (1794) p. 271 ; Syme, Eng. Bot. v. 1, 

 p. 211, t. 152; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 54; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Kat. V. 11 (1897) p. 122: Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 134.— 

 Flowers : Jan. 



Maliablesbwar, ex Woodrvw, I.e. — Distrid. A weed of cultivation ; Europe, Persia, 

 Attia. 



