154 x. CRUCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 



pedicels | in. long minutely hairy, .style thick T ^ in., valves obtuse at both 

 ends. 



Temperate SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, in Lacken valley and Tungu, alt. 10 13,000 ft., //./. 



A remarkably stout, tall, erect plant, l-2 i't. high. Stem many-angled; branches 

 long. Flowers bright orange yellow. Petals obovate-spathulate. Pods '2 '2!, by ,1 in. ; 

 valves obtusely keeled, obtuse at both ends; stigma large, capitate. /Seed* small. 



6. E. odoratum, Ehr. ? ; H.f. & T. in J<mrn. Linn. Soc.v. 166 : erect, 

 robust, stem angular above, leaves oblong or lanceolate sinuate-toothed or 

 entire scaberulous, flowers -- in. diam , pedicels half as lung as the .sepals. 



KASHMIR, alt, 5-7000 ft., and WESTKKN TIBKT, alt. 9000 ft. 



Hairs on the upper leaf-surface appressed, fixed by the middle, with a few 3- furcate 

 ones, on the lower both are mixed. 



7. E. altaicum, C. A. Meyer? ; II. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. fr>c. v. ic.7 ; 

 hoary with appressed hairs, stem short erect rather slender angled, leaves 

 petioled linear-lanceolate entire or sinuate-toothed, radical sometimes run- 

 cinate, flowers large \-\ in. diam., pedicels shorter than the sepals. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA and WESTKKN TIBET, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Jacqucinont, &c. Dis- 

 TBJB. Caucasus ; Altai Mts. 



**** Stem sub-simjJ'; at out, erect, leafy ; pods 3-5 in. long. 



8. E. Thomson!, II. f. in Jmirn. Linn. AV. v. 1 (.>">; tall, hoary with 

 3-furcate hairs, leaves small linear- lanceolate ob.-cunly toothed, pods 3-4 in. 

 long very narrow / in. broad, pedicel stout l,-\ in., valves acute hoary 

 acutely keeled, style -^ in. 



Western Himalaya; KUNAWUR, alt. 8-l'-V>nn ft., Thomson. 



Best distinguished by its hoary branched hal.it, small narrow acute loaves, vt>ry long 

 pods with acutely keeled valves and rather long style. There is a smaller plant col- 

 lected by Winter bottom in Kashmir on the Uaramula pass, but it is not in fruit. 



9. E. long-isiliquura, //./. <{ T. in /our*. Linn. ,SV. v. \(\(\ ; annuaU, 

 tall, erect, robust, glabrous, stem acutely angled, leaves lanceolate obscurely 

 tpothed, pedicels shorter than the sepals, pods spreading very slender 

 linear, valves with a prominent keel, .-tyle ,',,-!, in. stout, pedicels \ in. 



Temperate SIKKIM-!! IMALAYA ; at Tnnjrn, alt. 10-13,000 ft., H.f. 

 The tall robust habit, anilely angled steui, ze of llower, and very long spreading 

 pods (4-5 by T V in.) best distinguish this. 



22. CHRXSTOXiEA, Camb. 



A glabrous or pubescent perennial. Leaves fleshy, entire or coarsely 

 toothed. Flowers in a loose ebracteate raceme. Sepal* short, suberect, 

 lateral slightly saccate at the base. l\id* linear-lanceolate, flattened ; valves 

 smooth 1-nerved ; stigma minute, conical subentire. Seeds few, sub-2- 

 seriate, flattened, not margined ; cotyledons linear, incumbent. 



1. C. crassifolia, Cambess. in Jacq. Voy.Bot. 17, 1. 17; leaves cuneate- 

 obovate acute or obtuse, deeply toothed towards the tip. H.f. < T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 167. 



WESTERN TIIJKT; alt. 12-15,000 ft., abundant, 



A much branched, fragile herb; hair^ simple; branches decumbent, stout. JFlowers 

 \ in. diam. ; pedicels I in., hairy, erect. Petal* \ in., yellow with a purple base. Pods 

 subsecund, 1-1 1 in., erect, flat, acute at both ends, nearly glabrous. 



