Cardamine.] x. CRUCIFER^E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 139 



9. C. Griffith!!, //. /. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 146 ; perennial, erect, 

 leaflets sessile entire or sinuate, lowest pair at the base of the petiole, 

 flowers large deep lilac. Griff. I tin. Notes, 188. n. 996. 



Wet places near Lamu in BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Rootstock creeping; stem I ft., angled and grooved. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, ovate 

 oblong or rounded. -The specimens have no flowers, but Griffith has recorded their size 

 and colour. 



10. C. eleg-antula, H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 146; very small, 

 annual, branched, leaflets linear-oblong in 5-7 remote pairs, flowers white 

 or rose, pods filiform. Hutchinsia sp., Griff. It. Notes, 195, n. 1079. 



Wet rocks Chuka in BHOTAN, alt. 6500 ft., Griffith. 



Pale green, tender. Stem 2-3 in., slender. Leaves glabrous, pinnate ; leaflets petio- 

 lulate, small, fleshy, linear-oblong, sublobed angled or quite entire. Racemes 

 lengthened, 2-9-flowered. Petals white or rose, broadly clawed, thrice as long as the 

 small glabrous sepals. Pods f in., narrow-linear, on very slender, filiform, spreading 

 or drooping pedicels ; style short, a little narrower than the pods. 



11. C. macrophylla, Willd. Sp- PI. iii. 484 ; stout, erect, perennial, 

 leaflets ovate or lanceolate crenate-lobed or pinnatifid, flowers large white 

 or deep violet, pods with very thick margins. DC. Prodr i. 152 ; H.f. & T. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 145. C. polyphylla, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 201. Dentaria 

 dasyloba, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xxx. n. 103. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from SIKKIM to KASHMIR. DISTRIB. N.Asia, 

 Japan. 



Leafy, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; rootstock creeping; stem simple, herbaceous, 

 1-24 ft-> smooth, striated. Leaves all pinnate ; leaflets 4-3 in., 3-5 pairs, acuminate 

 or obtuse. Racemes erect, many-flowered. Pods ^-1^ in., erect, tapering at both ends; 

 valves smooth, flat ; style ^ in., rigid. 



VAR. 1. dentaricefolia ; lateral leaflets lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenateor serrate 

 obtuse, flowers large white or violet, pods 2~1* i- ^-" macrophylla, Led. Fl. Ross. i. 

 128,. From Kumaon to Kashmir. 



VAR. 2. foliosa ; lateral leaflets narrow-lanceolate acuminate subpinnatifid, flowers 

 white, pods 1-14 ^ n - P a ' e coloured. C. foliosa, Wall. Cat. 4779. Kumaon and Kashmir. 

 The smallest state of the species. 



VAR. 3.-lobata; leaflets ovate-lanceolate irregularly and coarsely lobed or cut, lobes 

 obtuse, flowers and pods as in var. foliosa, but the plant larger. Kashmir, 6000 ft. ; 

 Western Tibet, 13,000 ft. 



VAR. 4. sikkimensis ; tall and coarse, leaflets ovate-lanceolate obtusely serrate, 

 flower large deep violet, pods large and broad lif in. long pale brown. Inner ranges 

 of Sikkim, 7000-13,000 ft. (The Lepchas use the leaves and young stems of this 

 variety as a pot-herb.) 



? 9. XiOXOSTZaXON, H. f. & T. 



A diminutive tender annual, with a few petiolate, usually 3-foliolate, 

 leaves. Flowers small, corymbose, lilac. Sepals spreading, equal at the 

 base. Petals broadly ^spatlmlate, clawed. Filaments of the long stamens 

 thickened at the tip and recurved. Pod linear ; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. 



Closely allied to Cardamine, but in the absence of ripe fru i 8 place cannot be 

 determined with certainty. 



1. !. pulchellus, H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 14-, 



SIKKIM, in moist grassy places, alt. 10-13,000 ft., H.f. 



Stem slender, filiform, flexuous, glabrous, springing from a mass of toothed root- 

 bulbils. Leaves generally 3-foliolate, rarely in 2 pairs ; leaflets subsessile, linear, entire, 

 apiculate. Corymb 3-6-flowered. 



