Iberidella.] x. CRUCIFER^:. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 163 



cles. Fl.owers white or rose- coloured, racemose. Sepals erect, lateral saccate 

 at the base. Petals equal. Pod compressed, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; 

 valves keeled, without wings ; septum narrow, membranous ; style elongate. 

 Seeds 2 to 6 in each cell, not margined ; cotyledons obliquely accumbent. 

 DISTRIB. Species 6, W. Asiatic. 



1. I. Anderson!, H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 177 ; radical leaves 

 short petioled tufted ovate-oblong, cauline oblong obtuse. 



Western Himalaya in KUMAON, Strachey and Winterbottom ; and GARWHAL, T. 

 Anderson; alt, 12-16,000 ft., in wet grassy places. 



Hoot slender, branching above. Stems erect, 2-4 in. higb, simple or branched from 

 the base ; flowerless shoots weak, decumbent. JRadical leaves indistinctly toothed; 

 cauline with small cordate auricles ; leaves of the barren shoots broadly ovate or almost 

 orbicular, shortly petioled. Flowers numerous, racemed, rather large, white or pale 

 rose. Pods (immature) ^ in., much flattened, narrow, lanceolate, curved, acute ; valves 

 wingless ; style very short, acute, tapering from the base. 



34. ZSATXS, Linn. 



Erect, tall, branching annuals or biennials, with petioled radical leaves ; 

 cauline sessile sagittate. Flowers small, yellow, in loose terminal racemes. 

 /Sepals equal at the base, spreading. Petals equal, entire. Pod flat, oblong, 

 obovate or cuneate-oblong rarely suborbicular, 1-celled, indehiscent ; centre 

 hard, often depressed ; margin membranous f oliaceous or thickened ; 

 stigma sessile. Seed solitary, pendulous, oblong^ cotyledons incumbent., 

 rarely accumbent. DISTRIB. Species about 30, natives of the Mediterranean 

 region, and Central and W. Asia. 



1. I. tinctoria, Linn.; biennial, radical leaves entire or coarsely 

 toothed, cauline glabrous, pods cuneate-oblong 1-ribbed, pedicel not 

 thickened at the tip. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 178. 



Cultivated places ; WESTERN TIBET, Falconer. DISTRIB. Westward to Europe and 

 the Canary Islands. 



Erect, somewhat glaucous and glabrous with a few hairs near the base. Stem 

 l$-3 ft., stout, thick, much branched above. Radical leaves 2-5 in., petioled, from 

 obovate to oblong-lanceolate, cauline narrow, 1-2 in. long, entire, auricles acute, sagit- 

 tate. Flowers small, yellow, racemed in a many-branched panicle ; pedicels glabrous, 

 very slender, recurved after flowering. Pods ^-f in., glabrous, rounded at the tip, 

 tapering to the base ; midrib thickened at the centre of the pod. 



2. I. costata, C. A. Mey. in Led. Fl. Alt. in. 204; annual, glaucous, 

 radical leaves obovate or oblong entire, cauline ciliate, pods elliptic-oblong 

 3-ribbed, pedicel thickened at the tip. H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 170. 



W T ESTERN TIBET; valley of the Kishengunga in Balti, alt. 4-7000 ft, Winterbottom; 

 Gores, Falconer. DISTRIB. Altai mountains, Soongaria, Caspian region to the Volga. 



Stem 3 ft., thick, erect, branched above. Radical leaves 3-5 in., tip rounded, base 

 tapering into a short petiole 5- cauline linear-oblong, 2-4 in., uppermost linear, ^ in., 

 margins and midrib beneath ciliate. Racemes loosely panicled ; pedicels glabrous, 

 spreading or recurved, subsecund. Pods ^ in., rounded at the tip, glabrous. 



35. TAUSCHERIA, Fisch. 



An erect, glabrous, branching annual. Leaves entire, stem -clasping. 

 Mowers small, yellow, in corymbose panicles. Sepals erect, equal at the 



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