106 CRUCIFER^. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 



70. A^fCHOIVIUIH, DC. AnchoniuxU. 



Calyx erect, somewhat gibbous at base. Petals clawed. Longer 

 filaments connate in pairs. Loments somewhat terete, tapering into a 

 beak-like style, leathery, with 2-6. l-seeded, pithy cells in pairs, separa- 

 ted by a thick septum ; stigma thick, 2-lobed ; seeds oblong, thick ~ 

 Perennial, alpine, stellate-woolly herbs, 



A. Billardieri, DC. l^. .3 to .6, greyish-canescent, gland- 

 ular, branching from base. Root-leaves oblong, petioled, tapering at 

 base and apex, obsoletely repand-dentate. Racemes at length loose, 

 flowers bracted ; petals purple, somewhat longer than calyx ; loments 

 erect, glandular-scabrous, oblong-lanceolate, .015 to .02 long, .004 

 broad at base, somewhat flattened, tapering into a long style — May to 

 A-ugust — Alpine regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



71. CHORISPORA, DC. Chokispora. 



Calyx erect, bisaccate at base. Petals clawed. Filaments free, 

 toothless. Loments elongated, cylindrical, separable into segments, 

 long- beaked, with 2 rows of numerous l-seeded cells, generally al- 

 ternating with sterile ones ; stigma indistinctly 2-lobed — Annual 

 herbs, with aspect of Raphanus. 



Ch. Syriaca, Bois. .2 to .4, Fig. 54. 



glandular-hairy. Lower leaves lyrate- 

 pinnatilid, upper oblong, petioled, taper- 

 ing at base and apex, denticulate. Flow- 

 ers purple. Loments with beak .03 to 

 .04 long, .003 thick, cylindrical, some- 

 what torulose, scabrous with retrorse „ . 

 papillse, a little longer than awl-shaped ^^^^ of Chonspora Synaca 

 beak — Spring — Fields ; Jerusalem to CcBlesyria, Damascus, HaurSn 

 and Palmyra. 



72. STERIGMA, DC. Steeigma. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals clawed. Longer filaments con- 

 nected in pairs. Loment terete, somewhat torulose, pithy, at length 

 separating irregularly ; cells l-seeded, arranged in pairs ; lobes of 

 stigma divergent ; seeds obloog, thick. — Monocarpic, yellow-flowered 

 herbs, canescent with stellate wool. 



S. §ulpliureuiu, Russ. (D .5, Lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 runcinate-pinnatifid ; up[ier dentate or entire. Pedicel as long as 

 flower ; loments .05 to .06 long, .002 thick, canescent not glandular, 

 ta])ering into a short style — May and June — Ccelesyria to Damascus, 

 Aleppo, and northward and eastward. 



Order VII. CAPPARIDACE^. (Caper Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs loith alternate leaves and regular or 

 irregular ^usually cruciform floioers^ and 4:-Q-co (not tetra- 

 dyvamous) stamens ; ovary sessile or stipitate^ 'i -celled, or 

 2-S-celIed by means of false septa arising from parietal 

 placentce - Sepals 4 (rarely 5). Petals 4 (rarely 0). Stamens 



