ICO x. CRUCIFER^:. (Hook, f. & T. Anderson.) [Lepidium. 



Cultivated throughout India and Western Tibet. 



A glabrous erect annual, 6-18 in. Radical leaves long petioled; cauline sessile and 

 usually entire. Flowers small, in long racemes, white. Pods deeply notched ; pedicels 

 appressed. Not known in an indigenous state. 



SECT. II. Cardaria. Pod transversely oblong, tip entire ; valves turgid, 

 wingless. 



2. Xi. Draba, Linn. ; pubescent, perennial, leaves oblong repand-toothed, 

 upper with sagittate auricles. //./. < T. in Journ. Linn. tioc. v. 173. L. 

 chalepense, Schrenk., and L, repens, Bows. Fl. Orient, i. 356. 



A weed of cultivation in the PUXJAM. DI.TI:IH. Westwards to Europe. 



Stem 1-3 ft., simple or branched. tlexuons. !-H in., lower petioled, uppe r 



with converging auricles. Flower* J in. diam., white, in branched ]>;ini--l.-s. 7W &in., 

 deltoid with rounded angles, constricted between the papillose valves, of which one is 

 often imperfect ; pedicels spreading. 



SECT. III. Lepidiastrum. Pod elliptic or ovoid, tip entire ; valves 

 wingless. * 



3. Zi. latifolium, Linn. ; perennial, erect, glaucous, radical leaves 

 oblong serrate, pod ovoid. H. f. & T. in Jnm n. /,/////. *SV. v. 173. 



WESTERN TIBET, abundant, DISTRIB. Europe, N. and W. Asia, X. Africa. 



An erect, branched, glabrous or pubescent leafy almost shrnM>y herb, 2 4 ft. high. 

 Radical leave* petioled, often 1 ft. long, upper cauliue sessile. Flower.* minute, in short 

 densely panicled bracteate corymbs. Pods y T in. long; pcdie-.-N short, spreading. 



VAR. FLATY< AM-A, Tnnitr. ; leaves rathrr In shy entire indistinctly ,'J-m-rved, Bowers 

 capitate, pods orbicular slightly pilose and reticulate. WESTERN TIBET, Thornton, 

 Stewart. 



SECT. IV. Dileptium. Pod elliptic or oblong, tip retuse or notched ; 

 valves keeled, wingless or winged at the tip only. 



4. If. ruderale, /./////. : annual, lower leaves 2-pinnatifid, flowers 

 apetalous diandrous, pod orbicular-oblong liat, valves winged at the tip. 

 //. /. <6 T. Journ. Y, /'////. Soc. v. 17."). 



Tt-mperate WESTERN TIIIET, alt. 7-13,000 ft., Tliomson. DISTRIB. Westward through- 

 out Europe. 



Kveet or diffuse, glabrous or pubescent. liadlral leaves much divided segments 

 narrow ; upper canline linear, entire. I'lmcera minute in terminal and lateral corymbs. 

 Pod rj-yV in- 5 pedicels slender, diverging. Seeds compressed. 



f>. L. capitatum, II. f. <t T. in Journ. Linn.Soc.v. 17."> ; prostrate, 

 leafy, leaves sessile upper cuneate-oblong toothed beyond the middle, 

 flowerd tetrandrous in dense lateral capitate racemes, pods of L. ruderale. 

 L. incisum, Edyew. in Trans. Linn. tioc. xx. 33 (not of Ledebo ///). 



Temperate and subalpine Himalaya, from SIKKIM to KCMAON, alt. 10-14,000 ft. 



(ilabrons or glandular-pubescent ; branches 68 in., stout. Radical leave* shortly 

 petioled, pinnatisect, lobes oblong. Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. Pods ^ in., 

 ovate, scarcely notched; valves keeled, wingless, sessile. Seeds mucilaginous when 

 moistened. 



30. DZZiOFHZA, Thorns. 



A dwarf glabrous fleshy herb, with a long tapering perennial root, and 

 tufted spathulate or linear, entire or toothed leaves. Flowers numerous, small, 



