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densely leaved ; leaves crowded linear dentate ; flowers 1 on very long 

 fascicled subcorymbose pedicels, ebracteate (Eastern Himalayas 1 ). 



36. Malcolmia E. Br. 3 — Sepals linear erect ; lateral often a little 

 broader, gibbous at base. Stamens 6, longer filaments free or con- 

 nate in pairs. Glands 4, minute; placentary pair external to stamens ; 

 carpellary internal. Siliqua subterete, elongated or cylindrical- 

 subulate, usually thick -pedunculate ; valves 3-ribbed; repluui obtuse 

 or very slightly prominent ; septum membranous ; style short 

 cylindrical ; lobes of stigmatose apex connate or connivent into an 

 erect cone, more rarely decurrent down style. Seeds 1 -seriate, or 2- 

 seriate at base of fruit (Strigosella'), oblong or globular, immarginate 

 or winged (Cremobium) ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons incumbent. — 

 Branching herbs, often covered with stellate hairs ; branches often 

 prostrate; leaves alternate, entire or pinnatifid; flowers 5 laxly racemose, 

 ebracteate (North-west India, Persia, Caspian, Mediterranean, North 

 Africa 6 ). 



37. Hesperis 17 — Sepals (sometimes coloured) erect ; lateral 

 gibbous at base. Petals rather thick, unguiculate. Stamens free ; 

 filaments sometimes dilated at base. Siliqua elongated subterete or 

 sub-4-gonous ; valves 8 rather flat, keeled, sub-3-costate, sometimes 

 slightly contracted between seeds ; replum more or less carinate ; 

 septum membranous, 9 excavated beside seeds ; style short ; apex 

 stigmatose 2-lobed; lobes ovate-elliptical erect 10 (alternating with 

 septum). Seeds oblong, immarginate or marginate, when young 

 alternately imbricate and pendulous from top of ascending funicle, 

 when mature descending with free funicle ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons 



1 Golden. 7 i ns t., 222, t. 108. — L., Gen., n. 817. — 



2 Spec. 1. L. pedunculosus Hook. p. & Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 418. — J., Gen., 238. — ■ 

 Thoms., loc. cit. DC, Prodr., i. 188. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 



3 In Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 121.— DC, 388. — Endl., Gen., n. 4903.— B. H., Gen., 76, 

 Prodr., i. 186. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 966, n. 44. — Kiadnia Schue, Enum. PI. Tran- 

 392. — Endl., Gen., n. 4902. — Hook. p. & sylv., 53. 



Thoms., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 155. — B. H., 8 Subseptiferons in S. triste L., which is the 



Gen., 77, n. 45. — Eremobium Boiss., El. Or., i. genus Deilosma Spach (Suit, a Buffon, vi. 397). 



156. » Rather thick in H. renifolia Borss., which 



4 Boiss., Biagn. PI. Or., ser. 2, iv. 22. is the genus Chalcanthus Boiss. ( El. Or., i. 211). 



5 White, lilac, or purple. )0 Wherein the genus often recalls Matlhiola; 



6 Spec, about 20. Reichb., Ic. El. Germ., ii. but the lobes are very short in H. renifolia 

 t. 56, 57. — Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 59, 60. — Boiss. (Chalcanthus renifolius Boiss., El. Or.,i. 

 Boiss., El. Or., i. 221. — Geen. & Gode., El. de 212), and divaricated in E. speciosa. 



F r ., i. 83.— Walp., Pep., i. 161 ; ii. 760; Ann., 

 i. 39; vii. 131, 132 (Strigosella). 



