150 x. CRUCIFER^E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Sitymbrittm* 



terminal racemes. Fruiting racemes elongate ; pedicels J- in., spreading, as thick as 

 the rachis. Pods \ in., straight or slightly curved; septum Hat. /v< (Z.s very minute, 

 oblong. Boisfier remarks that the seeds are unknown. There are numerous ri 

 in Griffith's specimens in the Kew Herbarium. 'Jhe cotyledons ar incumbent. 



SECT. II. Sophia. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, ebracteate. Pod cylindric 

 or flat, valves 1-nerved. 



12. S. Sophia, Linn. ; annual, erect, glabrous or pubescent, leaves 2-3- 

 pinnatisect, flowers small, pedicels slender, lltich. Jc. Fl. (in-in. t. 74, 

 f. 4405; 11. f. & T. Journ. Linn. Xoc. v. 158. 



PUNJAB, in the Salt Range and near Peshawur; Temperate Himalaya from K 

 to KASHMIR, alt. 5-7000 ft.; WISIKKX TIUKT, alt. <J-1 4,000 ft. DI.STKIU. \\V 

 throughout Europe, N. Africa, and in N. and S. America. 



Stem 1-2 ft., finely tomentose and s m<-what hoary, or quite glabrous; branches 

 ascending. . Leaves numerous ; segments short, linear. Flan-era small, pale yellow. 

 Fruiting racemes elongate, lax, terminal. Podt 1 in., spreading, or erect, on long 

 pedicels, cylindric, subcompressed, curved, subtorulose ; midrib prominent; stigma &ub- 



SECT. III. Irio. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, ebracteate. J'mls terete, 

 valves 3-nerved. 



* Fruiting pedicels as Inroad as the pod. 



13. S. Columnee, Jac>/. I'l. A tuft*, t. 323 ; annu.il, tall, glabrous or hairy 

 below, leaves runcinatr, .-cpals em-t, valves of ]>od not ribbed. 



Orient, i. 216; II. f. & T. Journ. Li/m. ^>: v. i;>7. 



Western Himalaya, iVom KTM.VOX to KAHI.MII:, aso-nding to 10,000 ft.; WESTEKN 

 TIUKT, alt. 9-14,000 it. DISTKJH. Wc^tuard to (\-ntral Knn.pe. 



Stem 3 ft., stout, erect, slightly branching, Mibhi.*]id with .-preailing or reH.-xed hairs, 

 or all glabrous and glaucous. / ;imts alm< enta to-.thcil, 



from ovate-oblong to lanceolate ; terminal lol.e angled; of the nj>i>ei leaves hastate. 

 Flowers large, pale yellow. *S' ( ^f//.s- glal n us. ]'<<lx'.\ tin., sjm a>liiu. very slender, 

 curved, glabrous or slightly hairy; pedicel \\ry stout ; valves striated, indistinctly cos- 

 tate ; style thickened, ^ in. 



14. S. pannonicum, Jacq. Coll. i. 70; Ic. PL Ear. t. 123; annual, 

 hispid or glabrate, U-avi-s mncuiate-pinnatUect, si-pals spiTailing, valves of 

 pod 3-nerved. lli^. /'/. Or'n-nt. i. 217; II. f. <& T. Journ. Linn. tioc. v. 257. 

 JS. septulatuni, JJC. &yst. ii. 471. 



Hassora in WKSTI i;.\ TIHET, alt. 8000 ft., fMnterlottom. 



tittm rathe r tall, still', often simple lelou, and divaricately branched above. Leaf- 

 segments nearly all similar, toothed or entire, of the lower leaves broad, of the upper, 

 narrow-linear. I'lowcrs large, paK: yellow, tiepals glabrou-, caducous. 7W.>- 3-4 in., 

 on short very thick pedicels, spreading or ascending, straight, obtuse, glabrous ; septum 

 membranous, projecting transversely between tliu seeds; style subelongate, thick; 

 etigma larije, 2-lobed. 



** Fruiting pedicels slender. 



15. S. Irio, Linn. ; annual or biennial, tall, glabrous, leaves runcinate- 



Fl. Orient, i. 218 ; //./. & T. Journ. Linn. tioc. v. 157. 



In Northern ludia, from EAJPOOTANA to the PUXJAB. DISTIUB. Aflghauibtau and 

 westwardti to the Cauary Islands. 



