856 



Plants of the Punjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Malcolmia torulosa, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Sisymbrium Sophia, 

 Flixweed, 



Crucifer^. 



F. B.I. i. 150. 



The Plains, west of, 



the Jhelum, 



1-7,000 ft. 



Salt Eange, 



Peshawar, 



Kashmir, 



Baluchistan 



(Stocks). 



Sisymbrium 

 Columnse, 



Crucifer^. 

 F.B.Li. 150. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, aimual, sHghtlj^ velvety or quite smooth, 

 leafy, branches ascending, leaves much divided, segments 

 short, linear, flowers small, yellow, in loose bractless 

 racemes, sepals short, petals long-stalked, capsules 1 in., 

 spreading or erect on long slender stalks, cylindiic, some- 

 what flattened, curved, almost beaded, mid rib prominent, 

 stigma almost sessile ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



large, annual, shghtly branched, smooth or hairy be- 

 low, leaves lobed with the end lobe largest, angled and in 

 upper leaves forked, segments ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 

 toothed, and pointing backwards, flowers large, pale yellow, 

 sepals erect, smooth, capsule 3-4 in. long, spreading, very 

 slender, curved, stalk very stout ; for other characters see 

 the last species. 



Sisymbrium Irio, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Sisymbrium Lceselii, like the last described species, but more branched, 



Crucifer^. style short with a distinct 2-lobed stigma. , 



F.B.Li. 151. 



Kashmir, 



5-7,000 ft. 



Sisymbrium Alliaria, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Brassica nigra, 

 Black mustard, 



Bai. 



Crxjciwb-rm. 

 F.B.Li. 156. 

 The Plains to 

 9,000 ft. 



large, annual, more or less hairy, stiff, branched ; 

 leaves 4-8 in., all stalked, lower lobed with a large terminal 

 lobe, upper entire ; flowers ^-|- in. diam., bright yellow, in 

 long naked racemes, sepals 4, spreading, lateral pouched at 

 the base, petals 4, placed cross wise, stamens 6, 4 inner 

 longer in opposite pairs ; capsules ^-^ in., slender, pressed 

 against the stem, beaded, cells 3-5-seeded, beak slender, 

 seedless, seeds oblong. 



