146 x. CRUCIFER.E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Zfalcolmia. 



16. BXAXiCOXiXftXA, Br. 



Branching herbs, pubescence simple or stellate. Leaves entire or pin na- 

 tifid. Flowers in lax racemes, white or purple. Sepals erect, equal at the 

 base. Petals linear, claws long. Filaments free, the longer ones sometimes 

 united in pairs. Pods elongate, cylindric, hard and dehiscing late ; peduncle 

 usually thickened; valves 3-nerved ; septum membranous; stigma erect, 

 lobes often united into an acute cone or decurrent along the short style. 

 Seeds 2-seriate towards the base of the pod, oblong, not margined; coty- 

 ledons incumbent. DISTKLB. About 20 species, natives of W. Asia and the 

 Mediterranean region. 



* Pods linear, elongate. 



1. M. africana, Br. Hort. Kew, td. 2, iv. 121 ; leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late toothed, flowers many small, puds straight hispid. DC. Prodr. i. 187 ; 

 (,'rijjith III,,. .Votes 2GO, No. 513 ; //./ < T. in J <>,. I Ann. ,W\ v. i::. 



Fields and waste plac, > in the I'i UAB, KASHMIR, and WI.MLKN TIIJET, ascending to 

 13,000 ft. DisTKiH. W. Asia, Mediterranean region. 



Stout, leafy annual, 1^ ft., mu^h with still' foiked and simjili 1 hairs; branches many, 



long, somewhat .<{irrailin.tr. leaves 1-6 in., perilled. Flnrt-rs near the ends of tho 



branches. 7V(//.s- obovate-ol,!, e peisi>tent sepals, purple or white. 



! r<n -cine* (\ 1'Jin. lung; jicdi.-fis ,'., i thick as tin- ].uds. Pad* -_'-3 



in. lci)L r , narruw, linear, V.-IT nuiili with short forked hairs; valves ]>n>l< nired into a 



short blunt horn ; stigma short, conical, tapcrintc to ;.n acute jmint. Varies greatly in 



-. and length and thickin-ss of the pedicels and pods. A 



very roii^h variety with small flowers lias been distinguished as ft ^ttino^dala (M. 

 ''tin, Led.). 



2. BX. torulosa, /'-//W. /-7. Orient, i. 225 ; leaves narrow toothed orpin- 

 natifid, llowrr.s Miiall. p<-ds toruloM- usually n-ntorti-d or m-urvi'd. S 

 brium tonil..sum, ]>>*j. /'/. Athmt. ii. S4, t. l.V.) ; ])<'. I'm,!,-. \. \\):>- //. /. 

 *( T. ni .loin-ii. Lntn. >'". v. n;:i. S. contortuplicattun, J)C. Prodr. I.e. 



PUN.) Ait at 1'eshawur, >7- irurt. I'lsTiMi 1 .. \\'c-stwards to Syria and X. Africa. 



A depressed annual or biennial, with numerous spreading and ascending still 

 bra <lics, 6 or 8 in. leni^, liispid with still' spreading simj.le or forked hairs, rarely 

 glabi'ons. J^nl/ail / r. N 1 :; in , numerous, oblong -lanceolate, acute; catiline shorter 

 and le>.s divid. d. J''l,,tr, /:< small, sub essile, white. J '<></.-< .,' - 1 in., on v. ry sliort 

 thick pedicels, slender straight recurved or contorted, hispid. Seeds small, oblong, 

 1-seriate. 



** l\>d* limy or sliort, subulate. 



3. M. strig^osa, JJoi**. Ft. Orient, i. 224; glabrous or hispid below only, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate repand or toothed, pods 1-1 \ in. long. //. /. <L- T. 

 in Jaunt. Lain. Soc. v. 155. 



In the Salt range, PUSJAB, Fleming, Stewart. DSITRIB. Afghanistan, Beluchistan, 

 Persia. 



A stout, depressed or suberect, rough, hairy annual, soon dividing into a few rather 

 rigid short branches 6-18 in. long. Radical leaves long petioled, spreading on the 

 ground, 2 or 3 in. long; cauline shorter and more entire. Flowtrs numerous, sef-sile, 

 in racemes 2-lli in. l'ctl.-< about ^ in., sometimes twisted, linear, dark purple, rarely 

 white, limb bn ader than the claw. Pods terete, stout, thickened at the base, tapering 

 to an obtuse point, spreading horizontally or declined ; base with short branching and 

 IOIILT sj tea .ing forked hairs, less hispid above, k'tcda sub-2-seriate at the base of the 

 pod, 1 -seriate above. 



