Drummondiane. N. O. Crucifere. 
TAB. DCXVII. 
STENOPETALUM DRaABOIDES. Hook. 
Annuum parvum pluricaule, caulibus erectis simplicibus parce 
. ote Re os 4 41 pg, Sa be . 
foliosis. foltis hi 
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racemo 4-5-floro, siliculis oblongo-obovatis compresso-planis 
subtortuosis unilocularibus (dissepimento nullo) minutissime 
puberuli-granulatis dorso basi obsolete uninervi stylo brevis- 
simo terminatis, seminibus numerosis, podospermis longis- 
simis, 
Has. Swan River settlement, Australia. James Drummond, 
(Crucif. n. 3.) 
A small annual plant, (the flowers of which are unknown to 
me,) with quite the habit of Draba (or Eriophila) verna ; but 
the leaves and stems are everywhere glabrous. Nor is the fruit 
in external appearance very dissimilar; larger, indeed, and 
longer, more coriaceous, becoming sensibly broader above, and 
slightly twisted ; but within its structure is widely different, the 
membranous dissepiment, so common to the Crucifere in 
general, being here wholly wanting, and the numerous seeds being 
attached to exceedingly long podosperms. In these latter 
particulars the fruit exactly resembles that of our Stenopetalum 
procumbens, (Tas. vex. of the present volume), from which, — 
again, the size of the plant, stouter stem and shape of the fruit, 
will at once distinguish it. 
Fig. 1. Silicule. f. 2. Side view of the same. jf. 3. Trans- 
verse section of the same. 7.4. The same, with the valve 
removed, /.5. Seed and seedstalk :—magnified. 
