158 x. CRUCIFER^:. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) \Eruca. 



26. ERUCA, Tourn. 



Erect branching herbs. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid. Flotpenlil&c or yellow, 

 veined with violet. Sejxds erect, lateral saccate at the base. Petals veined. 

 Pods closely adpressed to the axis, ovoid-oblong, turgid, terete, with a large 

 ensiform seedless beak; valves concave, 3-nerved ; stigma simple. Seeds 

 numerous, 2-seriate, globose ; cotyledons conduplicate. DISTRIB. Three 

 species, inhabiting the Mediterranean region and W. Asia. 



1. E. sativa, Lawk. ; Brassica Eruca, Linn. ; II. f. &' T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. v. 171. B. erucoides, R(acb. Fl. Ltd. iii. 117. 



Cultivated places in NORTIIKUN ami CK.VIKAL INDIA, the WESTERN HIMALAYA, 

 ascending to 10,000 ft., and UPPER GAM. i. TIC valley. I'ISTRIB. Westward to the 

 Canaries. 



Glaucous, glabrous, or subhispid. Stem 6-18 in. Learcs variously toothed, rarely 

 obovate and hiibcntire. Flowers large, pale yellow or while and veined. Xtj.al* often 

 tipped with hairs. Pods 1 in., erect and appressed to tlic stein; pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx ; valves twice as long as the broad flattened peak. 



27. BXORXCANDIA, DC. 



Smooth glaucous branched herbs, often woody at the base. Leaves entire, 

 amplexicauJ or pinnatisect. F/u'i-rs rather large, violet, purple or rose 

 coloured. >''/*//* erect, lateral saccate at the base. 7Y^//.s- clawed. /Wx 

 linear, elongate, subtetragonal, with or without a flattened 1-seeded beak; 

 valves Hat or bluntly keeled, 1- rarely many-nerved ; stigmatic lobes united 

 into a short cone. >S'"-(/.s numerous, 1-2-seriate, compressed, sometimes 

 winged ; cotyledons incumbent, conduplicate. ]>IMUIU. Species about 5, 

 natives of the Mediterranean re-ion, Arabia, and W. Asia. 



1. 1H. arvensis, DC. Syst. Veg. il 626 ; glaucous, glabrous, leaves ob- 



ovate obtuse, eauline amplexicaul, pod.s tetiagonal compressed, beak broad, 

 seeds Muall sub-2-seriate. 11. f. d' T. inJur/i. Linn. >6'oc. v. 172. Urassica 

 arvensis, Linn. 



Stfirart. DISTRIB. Westward to Per>ia, Arahia, and the 'Mediterranean region. 



Uieiinial, or a perennial of .short duration. LeaveiZ \ in., shortly petioled ; eauline 

 nva;e or oblong with large clasping aurielos. Flinrtrx few, large, shortly pedirelle.d, in 

 a loose long raceme. Petals rose-coloured, much larger than the sepals. jPodt - ''> in., 

 very narrow, erect ; valves nerved ; style usually broad, thickened, acute, sometimes 

 long and slender. 



2. 3M. tortuosa, //. /. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 172 ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, cauline-sessile, pods long subcylindric, beak cylindric acute, seeds 

 1-seriate. Uouepia tortuosa, Cambess. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 18, t. 18. 



Salt plains of the PUNJAB, West of the Indus, Jncqucmont ; SALT RANGE, Fleming. 



An erect, glaucous, glabrous, branched perennial, 1-2 ft. high. Stem below thick, 

 woody, sometimes tortuose. Leaves thick, inucronate, entire or crenate-sinuate ; lower 

 3-5 in., narrowed into a broad petiole. Flowers few, large, erect, scattered along a 

 lengthened raceme. Petals pale rose coloured, nearly twice the length of the sepals. 

 l\.<Ja erect, or ascending, linear; beak in.; style short, conical, pointed; valves 

 convex, striated, margins prominent. Seeds pubglobose. 



