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Siliqua elongated, subterete or 4-gonous ; style more or less elongated ; 

 apex rostrate or ensiform, persistent as a rostrum or deciduous from 

 top of siliqua; rostrum sometimes indehiscent, often 1 -seeded ; stig- 

 matiferous apex truncate or 2-lobed. Seeds go, usually 1 -seriate, more 

 rarely (D-i plot axis) 2-seriate, immarginate, subglobose ovoid or oblong; 

 funicles setaceous free ; embryo rather fleshy (sometimes coloured) ; 

 cotyledons conduplicate, or more or less concave longitudinally. — 

 Small shrubs or more frequently herbs, usually erect, branching, 

 2-ennial or perennial; root or stem dilated, succulent; leaves glabrous 

 glaucous, or more rarely pilose or hoary ; radicle pinnatifid ; flowers 

 in elongated leafless ebracteate simple or branched racemes {Europe, 

 North and Subtropical Africa, and Asia). See p. 185. 



43. Eruca TV — Flowers nearly of Brassica ; lateral sepals saccate 

 or subsaccate at base. Siliqua oblong subterete turgid; rostrum 

 broadly ensiform, aspermous ; valves concave inside, 3-costate ; 

 septum membranous ; stigmatose apex of style simple or scarcely 

 2-lobed. Seeds go, 2-seriate subglobose ; funicles free. Other parts 

 of Brassica. — Annual or 2-ennial erect branching herbs ; leaves 

 pinnatifid ; flowers" racemose ebracteate ; pedicels slender [Europe, 

 West Asia 3 ). 



44. Savignya DC. 4 — Sepals erect, subequal at base. Stamens 

 free, toothless. Placentary glands erect, produced. Siliqua ellip- 

 tical orbiculate ; style slender produced ; apex stigmatose capitate ; 

 valves submembranous, rather convex, net-veined ; septum hyaline, 

 2-lamellate. Seeds go, or few, 1-2-seriate compressed suborbicu- 

 late ; margin broadly membranous-alate ; funicles slender unequal, 

 half-adnate. — A quite glabrous branching undershrub ; branches 

 thin terete; leaves entire or pinnatifid; flowers 5 in slender terminal 

 and leaf-opposed racemes ; pedicels long-filiform, often decurved 

 {North Africa, Arabia*). 



1 Inst., 226, t. 111. — DC, Syst., ii. 636 ; Diagn., ii. 5, 26 ; 6, 13 ; Fl. Or., i. 395.— Geen. 

 Prodr., i. 223. — Spach, Suit, a Buffo n, vi. & Gode., FL de Fr., i. 74. — Waxp., Ann., iv. 

 352.— Endl., Gen., n. 4951.— B. H., Gen., 84, 219 ; vii. 151. 



967, n. 79. — Fuzomum Link, Fnum., ii. 174. 4 Syst. Yeg., ii. 283; Prodr., i. 157. — Endi., 



2 Variegated, reticulate with dark-purple veins. Gen., n. 4961. — B. H., Gen., 85, n. 81. 



3 Spec. 3. L., Spec., 932 (Brassica). — 5 Pink or violet. 



Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 84. — Boiss., 6 Spec. 1 (?}. S. longislyla Boiss. & Reut., 



