148 x. CRUCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [ 



stellate hairs. Stem erect, with numerous spreading or ascending stiff brandies. Leaves 

 radical petioled ; upper clasping the stem l>y sagittate auricles. Pods 1-1 4 in. long, 

 terete, straight ; pedicels short, stout, spreading, each with a leaf like bract at the 

 base ; valves striate. 



3. S. foliosum, //./. & T. in Jnnrn. Linn. $<>c. v. 160; sparsely hairy, 

 leaves broad toothed, flowers raceined glabrous, pods slender curve 

 brous much compressed. 



KASHMIR, alt, 5-7000 ft,, Thomson. 



A suberect or decumbent herbaceous much branched annual, with scattered stellate 

 hairs, 6-12 in. high. JimUcnl harm Boon -withering, spaihulate, shortly ] 

 cauline larger, 1-2.J, in. long, < blong or obovatc, sessile, auricles long sagittal 

 clasping, coarsely toothed. Fl<n-< /> small. vbHe, ebracteate ; pedicels ^ in.. B! 

 usually spreading, sometimes ascending or detlexcd. J\,th \\ in., in long i 

 spreading, ascending or the lower sonietime.s detlexed, straight or curved, with a few 

 stellate hairs; valves thin, flattened, striiite. 



** Leave* w>t t nnn<niful ; cmil'me nt viijittutc or aurided. 



4. S. Thalianum, (,'">/ <0 Moi.n. <// (.,'tnnt. /'/. 1 1 civ. iv. 34S : annual, 

 radical leaves petioled obovate, llower> small white, pedicels very slender, 

 pods very slender suberect curveil glaltrous ennipressfd, seeds llattened. 

 Jiniiw. Fl.Ori'nt. \. ^14: //. /. ( 7'. Jnnrn. I. inn. Soc. v. 1;:J. Arabis 

 Thaliana, Linn. ; IH.\ J'ruJr. i. 144. Conringia Thaliana, li<ick.J>\ Fl. 

 Germ, t. en, f. .; 



TeinjH-raie Himalaya, from P.HOTAX to KASHMIR, and in Wrsricnv TIHF.T; alt. 

 6-10,0(M) ft. ; PUNJAB, Xtrinn-t. - His-nun. Temp. Kuropr, Asia, Ah\ ssiuia. 



An ere i. sl-nder, braiu-hing annual, 4-12 in. high, slightly hispid with BC 

 spreading simph; and forke-l hairs or irlabr. I -.'5 in., toothed or entire; 



cauline tew, remote, sessile, generally entire. Baceme* ^l.'iider, eloi: 

 in., spreading or ascending. /'<><fx ^ 1 in., narrow linear ; valves convex, 1-iierved : st \ Ic 

 short, /Setf/rf very small ; cotylednns oblitjuely ineuml- 



5. S. lasiocarpum, If./. <l- T. Jnnrn. Linn. Soc. v. 1G3 ; annual, slen- 

 der, erect, hispidly pubescrnt, leaves small radical obo vat e-spathu late, 



flowers lil.-M-. pcdieels short, pods short straight terete densely i ub. 

 Grijith It'm. Notes \^^, N. i)i)l. 



Lammoo and Panya in I'M nth. 



Simple, rigid. ( J IS in., hoary and pubescent with mixed simple and stellate hairs. 

 Ti<nJii-iil I, in; .s ] l in. long, lew, sh< rtly petioled, sinuate-toothed ; cauline snial 

 obovale. J-'lmrti-x small. tSi^nl-i pube.sceut. Poils % in., erect; valves convex : nerve- 

 less; style very short. 



6. S. rupestre, ]^1<j<u\ iu 7V//// x. L'nrn. Soc. xx. 33; animal, erect, 

 branched, hoary, radiral leaves linear-oblong sinuate-toothed, cauline 

 sometimes cordate at the base, flowers shortly pedicelled, pods subt'-rctc 

 glabrous or puberulous, slender. //. /. <(' T. in Jm/rn. L'u/n. Soc. v. U\-2. 



In the dry n^gion of the WI>IKI;\ HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 8-14,000 

 ft.: 1'iti in WKSTKUN 'rnsr/r, T/t<>iitxu. 



N/< /// Ci-lS in., stiff, branching^ hairs forked, with a few scattered stellat- 

 Radical I om shortly petioled. \-\ in. ; cauline sessile, entire or toothed. / 

 few-flowered, bracteate throughout or towards the base ; fruiting elongate, lax. / 

 purple or white. Sepals pubescent; pedicels ^.T-^ in., puberulous. Pods H-l^ in., 

 erect or spreading, compressed ; valves with an indistinct central vein. 



7. S. humile, C. A. ^fn/. in Led. Fl. Alt. iii. 137; perennial, dwarf, 

 lioary, diffuse, radical leaves oblong, cauline petioled, flowers shortly pcdi- 



