CRUCIPHR^. (MUSTJLRD FAMILY.) 



101 



B. Eracagro, L. © .3 to 1 



ingly pubescent. Lower leaves 

 runcinate or sinuate-dentate ; up- 

 per linear-oblong, acute, entire. 

 Wings of silicle crest-like ; cells 4 

 — Spring — 



or more, spar- 



FlG. 



Ripe pod of B. Erucago. 



Var. ecbinata, Boiss. Wings of pod split to base into 5-6 

 lanceolate teeth — Fields and hedges ; northern Syria. 



61. ZIL.L.A, Forsk. Zilla. Sillah. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals oblong, entire, long-clawed. 

 Filaments free, toothless. Silicles crustaceous ovate-globular, corky- 

 fungous, 2-celled ; style bony, beak-like ; seeds 1 in each cell, pen- 

 dulous — Horny, nearly leafless, dichotomously branched, desert 

 shrubs, with pink flowers 



Z. myag^roides, Forsk. 5 

 Es-SiUah. .3 to .5, glabrous. 

 Lower leaves rosetted, soon with- 

 ering, oblong, repand-lobed, ta- 

 pering into a petiole ; upper oblong 

 to linear, obtuse. Flowers .01 

 lonar ; silicle glabrous, smooth, or 



Fig. 48 



irregularly ribbed 



pitted 



December to April — Southern 

 end of Dead Sea, and southward. 



62. CRAMBE, L. Crambb. 



Calyx spreading, equal at base. 



Petals obovate, entire. Longer Pod and thorns of Zilla my agroides. 



filaments generally toothed below apex. Loments indehiscent ; lower 

 joint pedicelliform, seedless ; upper globular, hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded; 

 stigma sessile ; seed suspended by a funicle which ascends from the 

 bottom of the cell, globular — Herbs or shrubs with a broad panicle of 

 rather small white flowers. 



* Perennial. Loioer leaves Idbed, not parted. 



1. C. maritiiiia, L. Jl. Sea-Kale. Glabrous. Root-leaves 

 elliptical-oblong, of rounded, wavy, sinuate or lobed. Loment .008 to 

 .01 long ; upper joint ovate — Spring — Coast (Tristram.) 



2. C. Oriciitalis, L. If .6 to 1, stem glabrous. Leaves sca- 

 brous, ovate-oUong to oUong lanceolate, the lowermost .3 to .3 long, un- 

 divided, the others pinnatifid or lobed — May to July — Fields; 

 Aleppo to Aintab. 



Yar. Aiiclieri, Boiss. Leaves vehety-canesceni — Coelesyria, 

 Antilebanon, and Damascus, to Aleppo and northward. 



* * Annual or biennial to pm'ennial. Lower leaves lyrate. 



3. C. Hispanica, L. .3 to .6, sparingly hispid. Lateral 



