Cheimnthns.} x. CRTJCIFER^E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 133 



4. C. albiflorus, T. Anders. ; leaves subspathulate or linear-lanceolate 

 entire or sublobed, petals white, pods tomentose, style short. Cheiranthi 

 sp., II. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 138, in note. 



Zanskar in WEST TIBET, alt. 12-16,000 ft., T. T. 



A small, hoary, minutely tomentose, tufted perennial. Stems slender, covered below 

 by withered petioles. Lower leaves loosely tufted ; upper linear-lanceolate, entire, 

 rarely toothed. Flowers in short, close racemes. Sepals linear, tomentose ; border 

 narrow, glabrous, membranous. Petals spathulate, obtuse or slightly retuse, white. 

 Very young pods linear, densely tomentose, many-seeded ; style short, glabrous. 



4. ATELANTHERA, H. f. & T. 



A minute slender annual, slightly rough with bipartite appressed hairs. 

 Leaves few, linear, entire. Flowers small, subsessile. Sepals erect, equal at 

 the base. Petals narrowly spathulate, emarginate. Anthers of all the 

 stamens with a short claw at the tip, of the long stamens 1-celled. Pod 

 linear, compressed ; septum membranous ; style short ; stigma 2-lobed. 

 Meeds 1-seriate, flattened, without a border. 



1. A. perpusilla, //. /. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 138 ; pods few 

 erect nearly 1 in. long, valves faintly nerved. 

 Zanskar in WEST TIBET, T. T. 



5. NASTURTIUM, Br. 



Terrestrial or aquatic, branched, glabrous or hairy herbs. Leaves entire 

 lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers small, yellow, rarely white, sometimes bracteate. 

 Sqmls 'short, spreading, equal at the base. Petals short, narrowed at the 

 base, scarcely clawed, or 0. /Stamens 2, 4 or 6. Pod long or short, almost 

 cylindric ; valves faintly 1-nerved; septum thin, transparent ; style variable, 

 short or long and slender, stigma entire or 2-lobed. /Seeds small, turgid, 

 2-seriate or irregularly 1-seriate ; cotyledons accumbent. DISTEIB. Species 

 about 20, temp, and tropical. 



1. N. officinale, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 110 ; aquatic, stem creeping 

 and floating, leaves pinnate, leaflets sinuate-lobed, flowers white. DC. 

 Prodr. i. 137 ; Griff. Itin. Notes, 275, n. 660 ;H.f.& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 v. 130. (Watercress.) 



KOHILCUND, T. T. ; PUNJAB, Stewart ; also found near all the hill stations, but pro- 

 bably introduced. DISTRIB. Affghanistan ; temp. Europe and Asia. 



Stem much branched. Leaves pinnate, the upper with 3-7 pinnules and a terminal 

 one, the lower cut into 3 repand segments. Flowers small, in short racemes. Petals 

 longer than the sepals. Pods ^-1 in., stalked, spreading or bent upwards. Seeds small, 

 2-seriate. 



2. N. palustre, DC. Syst. Veg.ii. 191; suberect, radical leaves pinna- 

 tifid, flowers ebracteate yellow, pods short thick. N. terrestre, Br. in Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 2, iv. 110 ; H.f.fa T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 158, N. heterophyllum, 

 Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 202. 



Abundant in the TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, ascending to 10,000 ft. ; and in N.W. INDIA; 

 rare in ASSAM and BENGAL. DISTRIB. Many temperate regions. 



Stems weak, smooth, slightly hairy. Radical leaves numerous, petioled ; lobes broad, 

 often sinuate-toothed, terminal larger, ovate-lanceolate, much toothed ; cauline sub- 

 sessile; deeply toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers small, in long lax racemes. Petals about 

 equalling the sepals. Pods - in., slightly curved when ripe, pedicels either horizontal 

 or deflexed. /Seeds crowded, 2-seriate. 



