Stocksiana. N. O. Crueiferee: § Isatidez. 
TAB. DCCCXXI., DCOCCXXII. 
Puysornyncuus Braunvicus, Hook. 
Gen. CHar. Puysoruyncuvs, Hook. Sepala erecta, basi sub- 
— Petala longe unguiculata, laminis ellipticis. S¢a- 
crasse vost 3 loculis in rostro continuis, et ibi semini- 
tro magno ovato-acuminato persistente) ampulleformis, oe 
coriaceus, inferne bivalvis, valvis oppositis minutissimis de- 
ciduis: loculis inferioribus obsoletis vacuis, superioribus (in 
rostro) singulo dispermo. Semina subtriangulari-globosa, 
punctulata.  Cotyledones plano-hemispherice, conduplicate ; 
radicula oblique accumbente.—Planta Scindica, biennis, bi-tri- 
mi elingati, yay divaricatissimi. 
Physorhynchus Brahuicus 
Has. Brahuic ar of Scinde, Dr, J. E. Stocks. Affghanistan, 
Griffith (a. 1 
This highly @ curious plant was sent with many excellent re- 
marks by Dr. Stocks, as a genus “distinct from Didesmus,” to 
winch its fruit seems at first sight to be allied. Dr. Planchon 
has in my Herbarium pointed out its real affinity with Fortuynia, 
Shuttlew., wanting, however, the remarkable wings to the fruit. 
The structure of the fruit here is, indeed, very remarkable; the 
greater proportion being occupied by what Dr. Stocks, I think 
justly, considers a beak. ‘The young ovary (f.5.) has usuall y 
our seeds and on each side of the Aiaucpiinents two chambers” 
(pseudo-loculi) “one above the other, separated by a slight con- 
striction. The lower ones are the true carpellary cavities, the 
upper are hollowed out of the rostrum. The latter generally have 
all 4 ovules in them, one often hanging down into the carpellary 
reef (apparently never ripening there). This lower portion of 
the fruit does not increase in size-like the beak, as the seeds 
ss ae to maturity ; but forms a short stipes to the flask-shaped 
beak, still more diminished in size when the valves fall away 
(f.6, 7, 8,9). The lower leaves are thick and fleshy, and when 
eaten = the garden cabbage are really excellent.” Stocks 
Fig. 1. Flower. f.2. Petal. £3. Stamens and pistil. 7 4. 
Pistil. - 5. Section of pistil. J. 6. Ripe fruit. £7. Vertical 
section of immature fruit. 7 8. Transverse section of do. f. 9, 
A valve from the ripe fruit. f. 10. Vertical ‘section of ripe fruit. 
J. 11. Seed. f. 12. Embryo cha 
