134 x. CRUCIFER^:. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Nasturtium. 



3. N. indicum, DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 199 ; erect, radical leaves deeply pin- 

 natifid, flowers bracteate or ebracteate yellow, pods long narrow. 1L f. & 

 T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 138. N. madagascariense, W. & A. Prodr. 19; 

 Wight III. t. 13. N. heterophyllum, JBlume ijd. 50. {Sinapis divaricata, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 123. 



Common in damp places throughout India from CEYLON to MISHMI and KASHMIR. 

 DISTRIB. Malayan Archipelago ; Philippines, China, Japan. 



A rough hairy or sometimes glabrous annual. Stem 6-12 in., erect, striated, 

 branching from near the base. Lower leaves petioled, rarely entire, lobes generally 

 toothed ; upper lyrate, frequently with small auricles. Bacemes long, many-flowered. 

 Flowers small. Petals Annulling the sepals. /' "'^ cylindric - in., spreading or 

 ascending. Seeds very numerous, small, rugose, 'J-seriate. Some of the states of this 

 variable plant closely resemble N. ''lit have longer and less turgid pods. 



VAK. benghalemse , DC. Syst. ii. 198 (Sp.) ; floweis braeti-ai--. at' like 



shorter than the pedicels linear-lanceolate, variously toothed or entire. //./. <( T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 139. Eastern l.engal, Sikkim, and the llooghly ; Assam and 

 Silhet to Chittagong, Tenasserim. (China.) 



4. N. montanum, WaU. Cat. 4778 (i>nrt!y) ; radical leaves sinuate-pin- 

 natifid, flowers bracteate yellow, pods .>lnrt turyid. 11. f. tl 1 T. Jonru. Linn. 

 Soc. v. 139. Sinapis pusilla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. !:.'.->. 



Subtropical Himalaya from SIKKIM to the PUNJAB, ascending to 7000 ft. ; the 

 KHASIA HILLS and BIRMA. DISTIMI;. Java, China, Japan. 



An annual much resembling \. 'unTn-uni. but less robust, with larger smoother less 

 divided leaves. Pods 1-1 in., slender, not turgid. 



G. BARBAREA, Br. 



Perennial or biennial branched leafy herbs with angled stems and lyrately 

 pinnatifid leaves. Fltr> /> yellow. Stjxttn suberect, subequal at the lase. 

 1'eta/ti with a broad claw. !'<,<! long, linear, compressed, 4-angled, many- 

 seeded ; valves hard, stout; usually strongly keeled. ^W.s small, 1-seriate, 

 ovoid, without a margin; cotyledons accumbent. DISTRIB. Species about 

 20, chiefly European. 



1. B. vulg-aris, 7??\ Hort. Keio. ed. 2, iv. 109; perennial, usually 

 branched, pods strongly keeled. DC. Prodr. i. 14o ; 11. /. <C- T. in Joarn. 

 Linn. tioc. v. 139. 



Temperate and subalpine HIMALAYA and W. TIBET; alt. 6-10,000 ft. DISTKIB. 

 Europe, \V. Asia, N. and S. Africa, Australia. 



Stittj erect, smooth. Stems 9-1 8 in., furrowed, green, leafy. Lower leaves petioled, 

 lyrate-pinuate, terminal lobe large, subrotund ; upper leaves sessile, obovate, entire 

 sinuate or pinnatifid at the base, lowest lobes auricled stem-clasping. Pods -*i , in., 

 numerous in a crowded raceme, narrow-linear, rigid ; pedicels erect or spreading ; 

 style about ^ in., stout, .straight. 



VAR. 1. taurica, DC. Syst. ii. 207 (Sp.} ; upper leaves ovate entire or toothed, 

 pedicels of the ripe pods almost horizontal, pods erect stout rigid a little curved, 

 styl- rather long and slender. Griff. Itin. Notes 306 n. 1047-1503. B. Iberica, IK'. I.<: 

 208 ; 13. arcuata, Meichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 48 ; B. praecox, Fries. Nov. 206, in Htrb. 

 Kew. (not of others}. Kashmir and W. Tibet, alt. 6-10,000 ft. (Affghanistan, \V. Asia, 

 and throughout Europe.) The fully ripe pods of Afghan specimens vary from f-14 in. 

 ' VAR. 2. sicula, Presl. delic. Prog. (Sp.) ; less robust, lower leaves lyrate, terminal 

 lobes ovate, lateral often wanting, upper leaves pinnate, segments linear, pedicels less 

 spreading, pods straight narrow compressed subtorulose, style short almost as broad as 

 the pod. B. intermedia, Boreau Flor. Cent. France, ii. 40. W. Tibet and Temperate 

 Himalaya, alt. 6-17,000 ft. ; Nilghiri Mts. (Asia Minor, S. Europe.) 



