CBUCIFEBJE. 247 



48. Orychophragnius Bge. 1 — Flowers nearly of Moricandia ; 

 siliqua very long, 4-gonous ; beak compressed at apex, 4-gonous ; 

 style slender elongated; stigmatose apex conoiclal ; valves carinate; 

 septum membranous, foveolate. Seeds oo, 1 -seriate immarginate, 

 sub-3-quetrous. — An erect branching herb, glabrous glaucescent ; 

 leaves alternate ; cauline sessile, entire, dentate, auriculate-2-lobed ; 

 radical lyrate pinnatifid ; flowers 2 in lax ebracteate racemes {North 

 China*). 



II. KAPHANE.E. 



49. Raphanus L. — Sepals erect ; lateral subsaccate at base. 

 Petals unguiculate. Stamens 6, 4-dynamous ; filaments free, tooth- 

 less. Siliqua elongated terete, continuous, or more rarely monili- 

 form, stipitate by a very short seedless joint {Maphanistrum), smooth 

 or costate, coriaceous, suberous or fungous, internally continuous or 

 made pluricellular by transverse septa; cells oo, 1 -seriate, sometimes 

 alternating with empty ones in substance of pericarp ; style slender ; 

 stigmatose apex emarginate. Seeds oo, descending subglobose ; 

 embryo rather thick; cotyledons conduplicate, sometimes complicated. 

 — Annual or 2-ennial herbs, branching, glabrous or hispidulous ; 

 root usually thickened, succulent ; leaves alternate ; inferior lyrate ; 

 flowers in elongated, terminal, or leaf-opposed, simple or branching, 

 ebracteate racemes {Europe, Temperate Asia). Seep. 193. 



50. Cryptospora Kar. & Kir. 4 — Sepals erect, equal at base. 

 Petals a little longer. Stamens free, toothless. Siliqua elongated, 

 curved, subterete, inarticulate, indehiscent ; style short ; stigmati- 

 ferous apex subentire or emarginate ; locelli 5, 6, distantly super- 

 posed, 1-seeded; intervals contracted. Seeds narrow, contracted; 

 cotyledons elongated, incumbent. — An annual herb, 5 erect, branching 

 from base, covered with forked hairs ; leaves sessile, oblong, entire ; 



1 PI. Chin. Bor., 7.— Endl., Gen., n. 4953.— 4 Tn Bull. Mosc. (1842), i. 160.— B. H., Gen. 

 B. H., Gen., 85, n. 83. 101, n. 166. 



2 Rather large, violet or lilac. 5 Aspect of Malcolmia. 



3 Spec. 1. O. sonchifolius Bge., loe. cit. — 

 Walp., Rep. i. 187. 



