138 x. CRUCIFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Cunlaminc. 



4. C. trifoliolata, 77. /. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 145 ; succulent, 

 leaflets subsessile 3-lubed, flowers pale lilac, funicles not winged. Griff. 

 It. Notes 121, No. 259. 



Mossy streams in the forests of BHOTAX, alt. 5500 ft., Griffith. 



A small fleshy annual; rootstock short, creeping; steins 4-5 in., simple erect. 

 Radical leaves on long very slender petioles, leaflets small, rounded, sparsely hairy 

 above, glabrous beneath, lobes obtusely pointed; cauline few, shortly petioieo, some- 

 times simple. Racemes BofecorftnboM, few^owtifed. Sepals small, obovate, glabrous, 

 margin membranous. Petals % in. long, obovate, scarcely clawed. 



*** Radical leaves (or all)2'>innatisect. 



5. C. subumbellata, ll<>k. >/?>>-. ; perennial, young parts with spread- 

 ing hairs, leaflets petioled irregularly lobed and eremite, flow ITS small, yel- 

 lowish-white, pods irregularly corymbose narrow lanceolate acute few- 

 seeded. C. hirsute var. snl>uml>ellata, /'"/:>// /// ll<><>k. J\> a< Jvnnt. JJt. 

 1852, 294. C. nilagirica, Schtccltt. /// 1/trh. llnhtmick. No. 1493. 



Shaded woods in the CONCAN, MALABAR, and CEYLON. 



Slender, diffuse, very like < '. l,irxttt<t, v.ir. xi/Jmticd, but young parts laxly strip^e 

 with spreading hairs, inflorescence corymbose, llmvns more yellow, and pn.ls I. 

 Sttm 3-10 in., branching from ti. /.,<///.,',> ;>-', l,y |-l in. 7W* 4-! in., 



sometimes solitary and axillary, 6-10-seeded. tiecds broad-oblong, remote ; 1'unicle 

 dilated. 



6. C. hirsuta. Linn., var. sylvatica, Link, (sp.) ; annual, glabrous, leaf- 

 lets petioled, petioles not auriclecl, flowers small white, stamens G, pods 

 racemed erect acute or obtuse. C. hirsuta, //. /'. <0 T . in J<mrn. Linn. tioc. 

 v. 146; Wall. Cat. 4780. C. del. ills, D,, n Prodr. 201. 



All temperate regions of India ; and a weed of the cold season in Bengal. DISTKIH. 

 General. 



Stem suberect or decumbent, 3-12 in. Leaflets orbicular-ovate, toothed, and angled ; 

 of the upper leaves narrow. Petals narrow, erect, twice as long as the very small 

 sepals. Pods i-1 in. ; style very short, except in var. ,o/.7//Y<a. 



VAR. oxycar/ia (not <\ <>.i i/<;nju, Boiss.) ; diffusely branched, pods acuminate, style 

 slender. Hilly districts, common. 



7. C. impatiens, Linn.; annual, erect, glabrous, leaflets shortly pe- 

 tioled, petioles auriclecl, flowers small white, stamens 6, pods erect. //. f. 

 <fc T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 14G ; Gri/. It. Notes 218, n. .99. C. pectinata, 

 DC. tiyst. Veg. ii. 264. 



Temperate Himalaya from SIKKIM to KASHMIR, alt. 5-12,000 ft. DISTRIB. Affgha- 

 nistan, temp. Europe and Asia. 



A7- nix stiff, 0-12 in. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets small, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 

 obtusely 3-5-lobed ; auricles of the sstem'leaves sagittate. Petals linear, erect, very 

 minute, white, often 0. Pods 1 in., erect, very slender, linear, acute ; style subulate ; 

 valves smooth. 



8. C. pratensis, Linn. ; perennial, glabrous, leaflets in equidistant 

 pairs angled shortly petioled, flowers large white or lilac, pods linear erect. 

 H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. *S'oc. v. 145. 



Hassora in WKSTKKN TIBET, Winterbottom. DISTRIB. N. and W. Asia, Europe, 

 Abyssinia, N. America. 



A'/r m 1 ft. ; rootstock sometimes bearing small fleshy tubers. Leaves pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets of the radical leaves orbicular or ovate, terminal larger ; those of the cauline leaves 

 linear-oblong, entire, flowers corymbose when young. Petals spreading, three times 

 as long as the sepals. Pods 1 in.; style short. 



