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elongated, subclavate or elongated, rather curved, at base articulated 

 with clavate pedicel ; style very short cylindrical ; apex globular 

 stigmatose. Seeds 1-5, linear, descending; testa spongy; embryo 

 oblong ; cotyledons incumbent ; radicle cylindrical slender. — A 

 branching annual herb ; leaves long-petiolate, cordate-ovate, crenate- 

 dentate or lobed ; flowers' in terminal ebracteate racemes 2 {West 

 Asia*). 



54? Goldbachia 4 DC. — Sepals subequal at base, erect. Sta- 

 mens 6, 4-dynamous toothless. Glands 4, alternipetalous. Siliqua 

 subdrupaceous curved, 4-gonous ; putamina 2, 3, separating more or 

 less, 1 -seeded; mesocarp thin subcoriaceous indehiscent; style 

 compressed ; stigmatose apex capitellate emarginate. Seeds oblong 

 descending ; funicle slender, rather long ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons 

 incumbent. — An annual erect herb ; leaves entire glaucescent ; lower 

 petiolate ; superior auriculate at base ; flowers 5 in elongated racemes ; 

 pedicels slender ebracteate, decurved when fruiting 6 {The Ead, North 

 India 1 ). 



55. Chorispora DC. 8 — Sepals elongated erect; lateral more or less 

 gibbous at base. Petals long-unguiculate. Stamens 6, free, 4-dyna- 

 mous. Siliqua straight patulous or curved, elongated cylindrical, 

 lomentaceous, indehiscent ; style elongated, with apex stigma- 

 tose erect, 2 -lobed, finally persistent indurated subulate rostrate; 

 pericarp rather spongy; cells oo, 2-seriate, 1 -seeded, sometimes alter- 

 nating with empty ones in substance of fruit, often separating trans- 

 versely on maturity from rather thick persistent replum into closed 

 cells. Seeds descending, marginate or immarginate ; radicle ascend- 

 ing ; cotyledons incumbent or oblique. — Annual or perennial herbs, 

 pilose or glandular ; leaves entire or pinnatifid; flowers 9 in elongated 



1 Small, white. " Spec. 1. G. Icevigata DC, loc. cit.— 



2 A genus near SobolewsMa. Deless., Ic. Set., ii. t. 81. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 



3 Spec. 1. Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 244. — Waep., 243. — G. torvlosa DC, loc. cit., n. 21. — 

 Rep., i. 174; Ann., vii. 179. Raphanus Icetiyatus Bleb., Fl. Taur., ii. 129. 



4 Syst. Veg., ii. 576; Prodr., i. 212.— Endl., s Sysl. Vey., ii. 435; Prodr., i. 186.— R. Be., 

 Gen., n. 4944. — Hook. f. & Thoms., in Journ. in Ait. Hort. Kew., erl. 2, iv. 129. — Endl., Gen., 

 Linn. Soc, v. 180. — B. H., Gen., 101, n. 168. n. 4900. — Hook f. & Thoms., in Journ. Linn. 



5 Small, violet. Soc, v. 181. — B. Ii., Gen., 102, 968, n. 



6 " A genus very near Lsatis, hut as its 2- 170. 



locellate stigma separates into cells, it scarcely 9 Purple or pink, 

 seems to differ from the Calilinece." (Hook. F., 

 loc. cit.) 



