166 x. CRUCIFER2E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Raphanus. 



41. RAFHANUS, Linn. 



Coarse, rough or glabrous annuals or biennials. Leaves lyrate-pinnate 

 or pinnatifid. Flowtrs large, yellow, white or pale lilac, veined with purple, 

 in long ebracteate racemes, Sepals erect, lateral ones saccate at thelta.se. 

 Pods indehiscent, elongate, terete, thick, continuous or constricted, with a 

 long tapering pointed beak, continuous within or tilled with pith separating 

 the seeds. Seeds pendulous, globose; cotyledons conduplicate. DISTEIB. 

 {Species about 6, European and Asiatic. 



1. R. sativus, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 228 ; lower leaves lyrate. (Radish.) 



Cultivated throughout India, and up to 16,000 ft. in the Himalaya. DISTKIB. With 

 cultivation throughout the temperate and warm zones. 



Root fleshy, variable in size and form. Leaves roughly pilose. J^Totoer* variable, 



usually white or lilac with purple vein-. Pods t rete, continuous, 1 in. to 2 ft. (R. cau- 

 datus, L.). The variety (A. cmidntiis), with whip-like puds as long as the ent ire- 

 plant, is commonly cultivated in Western India and the Punjab. The younger 

 Linnaeus (PL liar. Hort. Ui>8al, Dec. i. t. 10, an excellent figure) gives .lava as the. 

 country from whence the Meds of eovdbfUf were received, under the name "Alongi-i." 

 R. Rfiph<i>ii*tr/ti/i, Linn., can scarcely be distinguished from R. salicim, aud is probably 

 only the wild state of it. 



42. COLDBACHIA, DC. 



A glabrous, glaucous, branched annual. Lower leaves petioled, upper 

 auricled. Flnwn-s small, pale rose, in elongate, el>rartrate racemes. 



erect, equal at the base. Pods coriaceous, inilelii>cent, tetragonal, align tly 

 constricted between the seeds, 1 mt scarcely jointed, curved, tapering above 

 into a broad flattened beak ; cells -2 or 3, superimposed in one row, each 

 1-seeded. Seeds oblong, pendulous ; cotyledons incumbent. 



1. C. leevig-ata, DC. tit/sf. ii. r>77 : radical leaves many ovate-oblong 

 sinuate-toothed. //. /'. <( T. i/t Jmn-n. Linn. /v-. v. IttO; JJUIM. /'/. Uri> /<(. i. 

 243. G. torulosa, DC. I.e. 



KASHMIH, alt. 5000 ft., Jacquemont; common in the PUNJAB. DISTRIB. Westward 

 to S. Russia. 



Stem 9-15 in. high. Radical leaves 4-5 in.; cauline lanceolate, usually slightly 

 toothed, shortly auricled. Putin pendulous, in. lone, reticulately veined, costate at 

 the angles; pedicels rather slender, n Hexed, shorter than tin; pods. II. iaaier describes 

 a variety, B. asceiidcns, having erect pods, with rdlexed pedicels. The nuinenniH 

 Indian specimens examined have all drooping pods, with the exception of oiiu from 

 Afghanistan, in which the lower pods are ascending. 



43. CKORZSFORA, DC. 



A small, branching or tufted, glandular or hairy herb. Leaves entire or 

 pinnatisect. Flowers yellow or purple, in few-flowered ebracteate racemes; 

 pedicels lengthened, usually thickening after flowering. Sepals erect, 

 lateral saccate at the base. Pod elongate, cylindric, torulo.se, indehis- 

 cent, with a lengthened beak ; cells numerous, 2-seriate, 1-seeded ; lobes of 

 the stigma erect ; cotyledons accumbent. DISTEIB. About 7 species, na- 

 tives of Western Asia. 



1. C. tenella, DC. Syst. Ven. ii. 435 ; annual, leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or spathulate, flowers purplish, pedicels very short, pods obscurely toru- 



