Thomsoniane. N. O. Cruciferee. 
TAB. DCCOCVITI. 
FARSETIA LINEARIS, Dene. 
Tota pilis adpressis cana patenti-ramosa parce foliosa, ramis stric- 
tis rigidis subspinescentibus, foliis anguste linearibus, sepalis 
oblongo-lanceolatis ungues petalorum equantibus, petalorum 
laminis obovatis, filamentis edentulis, siliqua erecta brevi-pedun- 
culata oblongo-lineari (6 lineas longa) ineequaliter strangulata 
stylo lineam longo terminata, seminibus subuniserialibus 10-15 
compressis lato-marginatis. 
Farsetia linearis, Boiss. P?. Orient. in Annales des Sc. Nat. 2nd ser. 
t.17.9.150. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1.p. 139. 
Has. Muscat, Aucher-Eloy, Herbier d’ Orient (n. 4069). Near 
Lodianah, Seik country, Dr. Thos. Thomson (n. 8). , 
A rigid, subspinescent, very hoary plant. Our drawing is made 
from Dr. Thomson’s specimens, which precisely accord with Au- 
cher-Eloy’s authentic ones in my Herbarium, and are so named by 
Decaisne. Habit of F. Ayyptiaca,* as the author just mentioned 
well observes, but the smaller flowers, short peduncles, and above 
all the very narrow pods will at once distinguish it- Decaisne 
further notices its affinity with his F. Zongisiliqua, from Arabia, de- 
scribed, from very imperfect specimens, in the fourth volume of the 
‘Annales’ above quoted, p. 69, when he speaks of the pods as 2 
inches long and 11 lines broad. This latter plant is probably the 
same as Matthiola stylosa, Hochst. et Steud., found at Dschedda, 
W. Schimper, Herb. Arab. Un. Itin. p. 860, and of S. Fischer, 
Herb. Arab. n. 4; on one of my specimens of which, with entirely 
the habit of F. Jinearis, is a pod nearly 2 inches long. Another 
ied plant is what our valued correspondent Dr. Stocks has sent 
us from Scinde (Beluchistan) as “‘ Arabis heliophila?”’ more her- 
baceous, however, not at all spinescent, and with pods 23 inches 
long: this Capt. Munro recognizes as Cheiranthus Farsetia, Herb. 
Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4801, Farsetia Hamiltoniana, Royle, and 
Arabis incanescens, Munro’s ‘ Plants of Agra.’ 
Fig. 1. Flower. 7, 2. Petal. 7. 3. Stamens and pistil. /- 4. . 
Ripe pod. f. 5. Seed :—magunified. 
* F. Zgyptiaca has been detected in Affghanistan by Mr. Griffith. 
