164 x. CRUCIFEM. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Tauscheria. 



base. Pods short, boat-shaped, concave above, convex below, centre 

 crustaceous, indehiscent, 1-celled with a broad wing folded inwards -at the 

 edges and prolonged into a short triangular style. Seed solitary, pendulous 

 from the top of the cell, cotyledons incumbent 



1. T. lasiocarpa, DC. Prodr. i. 210. T. desertorum, Led. Ic. PL Fl. 

 Ross. t. 139 ; Royle III. 72, t. 17 ; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 178. 



KUNAWUR in the Western Himalaya and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-13,000 ft. DIS- 

 TRIB. Soongaria and the Caspian region. 



Stem 1 ft., seldom branching from below. Leaves ovate-oblong, radical subpetioled, 

 cauline with cordate auricles. Flowers in a loose corymbose pani< !< ; pedicels re- 

 curved in fruit. Pods in., thickly glandular-hairy. All the Tibetan and Himalayan 

 specimens have pubescent pods and hence belong to var. lasiocarpa; plants with 

 glabrous pods occur in Soongaria and the Caspian region, apparently associated with 

 var. lasiocarpa. 



36. DIFTERYOIU1V1, Dene. 



A virgate rigid much branched shrub with the habit of a Cleome, the 

 branches ending in few-flowered racemes. Leaves small, ovate-oblong, 

 entire. Flowers small, few, in bracteate racemes. Segals short, equal at 

 the base. Stamens free; filaments entire, 1-celled, ellipsoid, compressed 

 laterally, indehiscent, coriaceous, surrounded by a membranous wing. 

 Seed solitary, er$ct, winged ; cotyledons concave, incumbent. 



1. D. g-laucum, Decaisnein Ann. 8c. Nat, Ser. 2, iv. f>7 ; //./ <(- T. 

 in Journ. Linn. SQC. v, 179 ; JJoiss.. Fl. Orient, i. 417. Isatis spartioides, 



mss. 



In the PUNJAB, near Mooltan, Edgeworth. DISTRIB. Arabia, N.E. Africa. 



A shrub, 6-12 in., with many divaricate branches, glabrous, or the leaves and stem 

 slightly rough with viscid glands. Leave* few, J-J in. long, shortly petioled. Flowers 

 subsessile ; bracts scaly, T J ff in. Pods & in., transversely wrinkled, drooping. 



37. NESI.IA, Desv. 



An annual herb, with branched pubescence. Leaves entire or sinuate- 

 toothed, cauline sagittate. Flowers small, yellow, in ebracteate panicled 

 racemes. &}>als spreading, equal at the base. Petals entire. PCXM shortly 



stalked, subglobose, slightly flattened, coriaceous, indehiaeent. Seed soli- 

 tary ; cotyledons incumbent. 



1. N. paniculata, Desv. Journ. iii. 162; //./. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. v. 179 ; JJoiss. Fl. Orient, i. 371. 



In the PUNJAB-HIMALAYA, from Ha/ara to the Beas, Stewart; KASHMIR, alt. 

 5-6000 ft. DISTRIB. In fields ; Persia, Western Asia, temperate Europe. 



Stem 1-14 fki erect, rather slender, simple below. Radical leaves 1-2 in., oblong - 

 lanceolate, cauline shorter, auricles sagittate. Flowers numerous, on long slender 

 spreading glabrous pedicels. Pods a little broader than long, reticulated, glabrous ; 

 style slender, sharp. 



38. EUCXiXDXUXK, Br. 



Branching, leafy, rigid annuals, with forked or branched pubescence. 

 Leaves entire coarsely toothed or pinnatih'd. Flowers small, white, in terminal 

 or lateral, ebracteate racemes. Se^xtls spreading, equal at the base. Pods 

 small, erect, subsessile, subglobose, crowned by an oblique subulate beak, 



