140 x. CRUCIFER^:. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Notocerat. 



10. NOTOCERAS, Br. 



A small, stiff, depressed, branched, hoary herb, with bipartite adpressed 

 pubescence, flowers- white, in leaf-opposed racemes. Sepal* equal at the 

 base. Petals small, linear-oblong. Pods rigid, almost indehiscent, linear- 

 oblong, terete ; valves with a prominent keel prolonged at the tip into a h< rn ; 

 internally pitted opposite the seeds; style short; stigma capitate, titeds 

 1-seriate, small, compressed, wingless ; cotyledons accumbent. 



1. N. Canariense, Jir. in I fart. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 117 ; Griff. If in. 

 230, n. 225 ; //. /. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 147. N. hiapanicum, DC. ; 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 17. 



Fields and sandy places in the PUNJAB, Vicary, &c. DISTRIB. Westward to the 

 Canary Islands. 



Stems 6-8 in., spreading and branching from the base. Leaves linear-oblong, entire. 

 Racemes short, many-flowered. Sepals covered with adpressed hairs. Pud* 1 4 in., nub- 

 sessile, erect, hoary. Seeds 4-8. 



11. FARSETIA, Desv. 



Hoary ortomentose much branched twiggy undersh rubs or herbs. Leaves 

 small, linear-oblong, entire. 7'A,//-. /-.< white pink or yellow, spiked or ni- 

 cemed. Sepals erect, connivent, lateral saccate at the base. /'</'//* with long 

 claws. Pods sessile, linear or elliptic, much flattened ; val\ - omvrx, plane 

 or with a midrib; septum membranous. Seeds 1-2-seriate, suborbicular, 

 broadly winged ; cotyledons accumbent. DISTRIB. About 20 species, na- 

 tives of S. Europe, W. Asia, and N. Africa. 



1. F. Jacquemontii, //./. & T. .fount. Linn. Soc. v. 148; flowers 

 large, buds elliptic, sepals acute, pods narrow linear. Griff. Jtin. Notes, 218, 

 n. 105. 



Sandy places in the PUNJAB and SINDH. DISTKIB. Afghanistan and Beluchistan. 



An erect, rather ri-M, hnary perennial, covered with closely adjuvsseil hairs attached 

 at their middle. Stems 12-18 in., branches vir^ate. Leave* j-1 in., linear oblong or 

 linear. Sepal* strigose. 1\ tnl* half as ]<m:_r ai-ain as the sepals. Pods 14-2 by |-Jin., 

 compressed ; valves flat, nerveless or faintly 1-n. rvcd ; sti^iaa short, suberect. Seeds 

 2-seriate. It is impossible to determine from Burman's figure whether this is the 

 Arabis hcleophUa, DC. 



2. F. Hamilton!!, /,v>///' j ///. 71 ; flowers small, buds small subglobose, 

 sepals obtuse. 11. f. <( T. .//////. Linn. Soc. v. 148. F.linearis. /Jc>-<n'x/t<' in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xvii. 150 ; Honk. Ic. 7V. t. so*. Cheiranthus Farsetia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4081. Arabis incanescens, Munro, Plants of Ayr a, 6. 



Upper GAXGETIC PLAIN and the PUNJAB, from Agra Westwards. DISTRIB. Aflgha- 

 nistan, Arabia, Algeria. 



More rigid and woody than F. Jacquemontii, covered with denser and finer closely 

 adpressed pubescence ; branches long, erect, virgate. Leaves linear, very narrow. 

 Flowers in long spicate racemes. Sepals strigose, margins scarions. Petals obovate, a 

 little longer than the sepals, pink. Pod 4~l in. by -^ in., linear ; valves almost nerveless; 

 septum transparent ; style slender. Seeds 1-seriate. Closely allied to F. lonyixili'jua, 

 Dene., of Egypt and Arabia, but has smaller flowers and shorter pods. F. littxtrlx, 

 Dene., is certainly identical with the Indian plant although the Algerian specimens 

 have a slightly longer style, and a more 2-lobed stigma. 



3. F. aeg-ypt!aca, Titrr. diss. Fars. i. t. 1, ex DC. Syst. ii. 287 ; flowers 

 large, buds cylindric, sepals obtuse, pod elliptic-oblong. H.f. & T. Journ. 



