x. CRTJCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Eufrcma* 



1. E. himalaicum, 71. f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 164; stout, erect, 

 leafy, cauline leaves sessile amplexicaul, flowers subcapitate in branched 

 racemes. 



Temperate SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, alt. 10-13,000 ft,, H.f. 



A stout erect simple herb 18 in. high, glabrous or with a few hairs along the margins 

 of the leaves and petioles. Leaves all entire, obtuse, radical long-petioled, oblong or 

 ovate-cordate ; cauline ovate or ovate-lanceolate, auricled at the base. Flowers rather 

 large, white, in numerous terminal heads. Pods racemed, suberect ; pedicels long, 

 spreading. The ripe fruit is unknown. Differs from the Soongarian timelowskia (Eitr 

 trtma) integrifolia only by its auricled cauli&e leaves. 



2. E. primulae folium, //./ & T. Journ. Linn.' Soc. v. 164 ; stemless, 

 glabrous, radical leaves tufted, scapes leafy bracteate. Sisyml>rium pri- 

 mulfflfolium, Tlioms. in Hook. Kew Journ. Hot. iv. t. 10, and v. p. 18. 



Wet rocks in the Western Himalaya, from KUMAON to KASHMIR, alt. 6-11,000 ft., 

 Thomson, &c. 



Hoot thick, fusiform, perennial. Leaves 3-6 in., all radical, petioled, broadly Bpatlin- 

 late, toothed above the middle. SCIH# numerous, usually shorter than the- IVIUTS, with 

 a few leaf-like obovate bracts J-l in. long. Y-7"v/-.s small, white, tii'pals oblong, 

 persistent. Pods -1 in., cylindric, curved, smooth; valves membranous, finely reti- 

 culate. 



20. CONRINGIA, Reichb. 



Glabrous, glaucous annuals. Lowers entire, oblong, auricled. flowers 

 racemose, ebracteate, ytllow. frjutJ* elongate, equal at the base or the 

 lateral saccate. Petals elongate, clawed. 7 W.s elongated, linear, 00111; 

 or acutely tetragonal ; valves l-3-nervt.'d, smooth ortorulose ; stkma simple 

 or 2-iobed. Seeds 1 -seriate, oblong, not margined ; cotyledons incumbent. 

 UISTRIB. Species 6, natives of W. Asia and IS. Europe. 



Closely allied to Sisymbrium, but with the habit of Brassica. 



1. C. planisiliqua, Fi*c/t.. & ^f^>y. Ind. Sem. ffort. Petrop. 32 ; radical 

 leaves petioled linear-oblong, cauline sessile. Kryshnum planiadiquum, 

 Ledtl. Sisy mbrium planiBillquum, //./. <( /'. Jmu-u. Liim. ^<>c. v. 159. 



WESTERN TIRET, alt. 10-14,000 ft,, Thornton. lh*n;\n. Westwards to Persia, Soon- 

 garia and Armenia. 



Stem erect, 1-2 ft. Radical leaves few, 2-3 in., obtuse, cauline with cordate am- 

 plexicaul bases. Flower* small ; pedicels ^ in., slender. Puds 3-4 in., racemed, erect, 

 narrow linear ; valves slightly convex over the seeds. 



21. ERVSXlttUlK, Linn. 



Herbs, often hoary with appressed forked hairs. Leaves linear or oblong, 

 entire or sinuate-toothed, base never auricled. Flowers yellow, rarely 

 purple, ebracteate. Segals erect, equal or the lateral gibbous at the base. 

 Petals clawed. Filaments simple. Pods elongate, narrow, compressed 

 tetragonal or terete ; valves linear, 1-nerved, frequently keeled ; septum 

 membranous or corky ; style short or long ; stigma 2-lobed, capitate, tieeds 

 numerous, 1 -seriate, oblong, not margined ; cotyledons incumbent. Dis- 

 TKIB. Species about 80, chiefly European and Oriental. 



A genus in many respects intermediate between CheirantkuB and Sisymbrium. The 

 Indian species are very difficult of discrimination, and little confidence can be placed in 

 their diagnoses. They stand here as described 12 years ago in the Linnean Journal, 

 since which time no materials of importance lor their elucidation have been received. 



