Chorispora.} x. CRUCIFER^E. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 167 



lose, style rigid subulate. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 181 ; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, ii. 143. 



Western Himalaya and the Punjab; KASHMIR, alt. 5-7000 ft., T. T.; SALT EANGE, 

 Fleming. DISTRIB. Central Asia and westward to Asia-Minor. 



Pilose or rough glandular, rarely glabrous. /Stem 6-9 in., much branched from the 

 base. Leaves shortly petioled ; lower'sometimes pinnatifid ; upper entire or toothed. 

 flowers small, remote, purple (like those of Malcolmia africana). Racemes much 

 elongate in fruit. Pods 1% in., ascending, slender, curved, transverse-jointed, not con- 

 stricted between the seeds, beak long subulate ; pedicels %-$ in., spreading, ultimately 

 as thick as the pods. 



2. C. sibirica, DC. Syst. ii. 437; annual, glandular-hairy, leaves inter- 

 ruptedly pinnatifid, pedicels slender, pods slender curved torulose monili- 

 form, beak slender subulate. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 181. 



Hasora in WESTERN TIBET, Winterbottom. DISTRIB. Western and Altaian Siberia. 



A straight spreading herb, 6-8 in., with numerous branches from the base. Leaves 

 narrow; lobes equal, entire or lobulated, acute ; terminal long, lanceolate. Flowers 

 rather large, yellow, few, very remote in lengthened racemes. Pods 1 in., usually 

 curved ; cells 2-seriate, opposite, or one row a little higher than the other, but never 

 alternate, pedicels more slender than the pods, ascending or sometimes arched. 



3. C. sabulosa, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. JBot. 15, t. 15 ; perennial, glan- 

 dular-hairy, leaves entire toothed or pinnatifid, flowers yellow or purplish, 

 pedicels very slender, pods irregularly deeply torulose, joints gibbous, beak 

 short slender. H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 181 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 

 144; Griff. Itin. Notes 306, n. 1054. C. elegans, Camb. I.e. 15, t. 14. 



Western Himalaya, from KUNAWUR to KASHMIR; and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-17,000 

 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Root thick, fleshy, fusiform, branching at the crown. Leaves all radical, tufted, 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate, lobes obtuse. Racemes springing from among the leaves, 

 dense at first, soon elongating to 6-9 in. Flowers large. Pods |-| in. long, straight, 

 curved or twisted; cells opposite or almost alternate, tuberculated ; pedicels erect, 

 slender, thickened at the top, as long as the pod. 



ORDER XL CAPPARIDE-flG. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Herbs shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves simple or palmately 

 3-9-foliolate ; stipules 2 or 0, sometimes spinescent. Inflorescence indefi- 

 nite ; flowers solitary racemed corymbose or umbelled, regular or irregular, 

 usually 2-sexual. Sepals 4, free or connate, valvate or imbricate, rarely 

 open in bud. Petals 4 (rarely 2 or 0), hypogynous or seated on the disk, 

 imbricate or open in bud. Stamens 4 or more, hypogynous or perigynous, 

 or at the base of or on a long or short gynophore. Disk 0, or tumid, or 

 lining the calyx-tube. Ovary sessile or stalked, 1-celled ; style short or 0, 

 stigma depressed or capitate ; ovules indefinite, on 2-4 parietal placentas 

 amphi- or campy-lotropous. Fruit capsular or berried. Seeds angled or 

 renifonn, exalbuminous ; embryo incurved. DISTEIB. Genera 23, species 

 300, chiefly tropical. 



An order with various abnormal genera. Cratceva has petals inserted on a large 

 disk ; Mcerua and Niebuhria (which want petals) are calycifloral ; Cadaba has a uni- 

 lateral disk (bundle of filaments ?). Roydsia, with 6 sepals, a 3-locular ovary, 3 subu- 

 late styles, axile placentation and a straight embryo, though included here, might \velL 

 form the type of a distinct Order. 



