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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Malcolmia toruiosa, 



Crucifer^. 



F. B. I. i. 146. 



N.-W. E. Province. 



Peshawar 



(Stewart). 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Malcolmia strigosa, 



Petals ununited. 



like the last species, but less stout, leaves 1-3 in., 

 sometimes pinnatifid, flowers white, capsule |-1 in., usually 

 curved or twisted with contractions, ' 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Sisymbrium 

 mollissimum. 



Sisymbrium 

 himalaicum, 



CRUCIFERiE. 



F. B. L i. 147. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-12,000 ft. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



small, biennial or perennial, stiff, much branched, 

 hairs simple or star-shaped ; leaves 1-2 in., lanceolate- 

 ovate with a broad tip, waved and toothed, radical leaves 

 stalked, stem leaves clasping the stem with a forked base ; 

 flowers small, purple or white on slender erect stalks in 

 bracteate racemes, sepals 4, short, equal at the base, 

 petals 4, crosswise, stalks long, blade broad, stamens 6, 

 all free, style short, slender ; capsule 1-1 -| in. long, cylin- 

 drical, straight, spreading, smooth or velvety, stalk short, 

 with a leaflike bract at the base, seeds many in one series 

 not margined. 



Sisymbrium 

 foliosum, 



CrUCIFER/E. 



F. B. I. i. 148. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 (Thomson). 



Sisymbrium 

 Tlialianum, 

 Thale cress, 



Crucifer^. 

 F.B.Li. 148. 

 The Plains to 

 10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir, 



like the last species, but less hairy, radical leaves 

 broadly toothed, shortly stalked, narrowed into the stalk, 

 stem leaves larger, flowers without bracts, pods slender, 

 curved, smooth, much flattened. 



small, annual, branched, hairs simple and forked, 

 leaves 1-3 in., toothed or entire, radical ovate with broad 

 tip, stalked, stem leaves few, sessile, flowers small, white, 

 stalked in slender long racemes, capsule |-1 in. long, linear, 

 smooth, flattened, style short, seeds very small, flattened ; 

 for other characters see the last species. 



