130 , x. CRUCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 



** Stigmas connate, forming an erect cone. 



Pods long. A glaucous large herb or uudershrub 27. MORICANDIA. 



Series B. 



Pods short, dehiscing throughout their length, compressed laterally (at 

 right angles to the septum). (Pod indehiscent in 31, Meyacarp<t<i.} 



TKIBE VI. Lepidinese. Cotyledons incumbent, straight curved or lon- 

 gitudinally folded. 



Pods many-seeded; valves not winged 28. CAPSELLA.^ 



Pods few- seeded ; valves winged or not 2i>. LKIMDUM. 



Pods 2-seeded ; valves with '-' u!or>al crests 30. DILUPHIA. 



TRIBE VII. Thlaspideee. Cotyledons accumbent, straight. 



Pods indehiscent, 2-seeded. Tall herbs of umbelliferous habit . 31. Mi <; \( ATJP^A. 

 PodH compressed notched ; ndvep winged or keeled .... 3'J. Tin. \si-i. 

 Pods elliptic or oblong, acute ; vahes keeled 33. IUKKIDELLA. 



Series C. 



Pods short, indehiscent, not jointed, usually hard, either 1-celled and 

 1-seeded, or with 2-4 1 -.seeded cellules in parallel scries. 



TRIBE VIII. Zsatldeae. Characters of the series. 



Pods ] -celled, oblong or linear, wing thick. GHattoous nerbi . 34. ISATIS. 



Pods 1-celled, cvml'iibrin, wing incurved. ( lauci>us herns . . iio. TAIXII, 

 Pods l-ccllnl, small oblong, with a thin wing. A glandular 



twiy niulerslirnb . .' 36. DII-TKKVOIUM. 



Pods i-cclleil, wingless, globose with a subulate style. A hairy 



herb 37. NKSLIA. 



Pods 2-celled, obliquely h.'aked 38. EUCLIDIUM. 



Series I>. 



Pods long or short, transversely jointed ; joints indehiscent, or the lower 

 2-valved or reduced to a pedicel for the upper. 



TRIBE IX. Cakilineee. Characters of the series. 



Lower joint of poils a srrdless pedicel, upper u r !l>"-'' 1 -seeded . 39. CRAMKF. 

 Lower joint of pods a seedless pedicel, upper 2-cclled, 2-sccdcd 40. PiiY.-<>i;ir. 



Series E. 



Pods long, not jointed, indehiscent, either 1-cellcd and many-seeded, or 

 breaking up into many 1-celled 1-seeded indehiscent fragments. 



TRIBE X. Rap'haneae. Characters of the series. 



Pods long, terete, hollow or septate ; soe.ls globose, 2-3-celled . 41. TIAPHANUS. 

 Tods short, curved, 4-angled, 2-3-celled, monilitbrm . . . .42. GOI.DUACHIA. 

 Pods short, curved, many-celled 43. CHOKISPOKA. 



1. IKATTHXOXiA, Br. 



Annuals, or small undershrubs with hoary and sometimes stellate pubes- 

 cence. Leaves entire or sinuate. Flowers rather large, purple ; br 



erect, lateral saccate at the base. Petals spreading, claws long. Pod 



