Euclidium.] x. CRUCIFER^E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 165 



hard and crustaceous, indehiscent, rarely dehiscent, 2-celled ; septum thick. 

 Seeds 2, oblong, pendulous; cotyledons accumbent or obliquely incumbent. 

 DISTKIB. Species 2, central and western Asia. 



I.E. syriacum, 7?. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 74 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soe. v. 179 ; Boiss. FL Orient, i. 386 ; Griff. Itin. Notes 272, No. 631. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5-6000 ft., Winterbottom; PUNJAB, at Peshawur, Stewart. DISTRIB. 

 Westwards to central Europe. 



Diffuse, much branched, 4-12 in. high, with 2-3-furcate hairs OP glabrous; branches 

 stout, rigid when old. Leaves 1-4 in., petioled, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers distantly 

 subspicate ; pedicels very short, much thickened in fruit. Pods ^ in. long, pitted, 

 hairy ; beak (style) stout, obliquely reflexed, mueronate. 



39. CRAMBE, Tourn, 



Stout herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or pilose. Leaves pinnate lyrate or 

 toothed. Racemes elongate, ebracteate, usually panicled. Flowers conspi- 

 cuous, white. Sepals spreading, equal at the base ; filaments of the longer 

 stamens frequently toothed at the top. Pods indehiscent, articulate, the 

 upper joint globose, 1-celled, 1-seeded ; lower seedless forming a pedicel to 

 the upper joint. Seed globose, pendulous from the incurved tip of the 

 funicle, which rises from the base of the cell ; cotyledons conduplicate. 

 DISTKIB. Species about 20, European and temp. Asiatic. 



1. C. cordifolia, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. iii. 267 ; H.f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. /Soc. v. 180 ; Boiss. FL Orient, i. 405. C, Kotschyana, Boiss. 

 Orient, i. 406. 



KUNAWUR in the Western Himalaya, and in WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-14,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Westward to Persia and the Caucasus. 



A tall stout bristly hairy perennial. Stem striated. Rooistock thick. Radical leaves 

 on stout petioles, 1-2 in., petiole striated and dilated at the base, rounded and cordate, 

 laciniate and variously toothed ; cauline on shorter petioles, ovate elliptic or rhomboid, 

 toothed or lobed. Racemes loosely panicled. Pods globose, upper part pisiform, 

 crustaceous. Some Tibetan specimens have broader petals and shorter stamens (with 

 the filaments of the long stamens almost simple) than are found in the Affghan and 

 Caucasian ; but these plants agree in all other respects. Stocks says the root is eaten 

 in Beluchistan. 



40. PKVSORHVNCUS, Hook. 



A glabrous, glaucous, leafy undershrub. Leaves fleshy, lower petioled, 

 upper auricled. Flowers large, white, in elongated distantly flowered 

 ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, equal at the base. Pods indehiscent 

 2-jointed, the lower joint longitudinally 2-celled, seedless, with small 

 spurious valves ; upper joint large, ovoid, with a long conical beak (style) 

 2-celled, with thick lacunose walls ; cells 2-4-seeded ; septum thin ; stigma 

 subcapitate. Seeds flattened, pendulous from the side of the cells ; coty- 

 ledons conduplicate. 



1. P. brahvicus, Hook Ic. PL t. 821 and 822, Boiss. FL Orient, i. 403 

 (with syn.). P. chamaerapistrum, Boiss. I.e. 



PUNJAB, in the Salt Range, Vicary? DISTRIB, Westwards to Southern Persia. 



An erect perennial, about 2 ft. high. Leaves 1-4 in., ovate-oblong, entire- or repand- 

 toothed, tip rounded or acute, lower petioled ; cauline narrowed at the base, slightly 

 decurrent and auricled, uppermost linear-lanceolate. Pedicels erect, i in., a little 

 thickened at tke top. Pods -| in. 



