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racemes ; pedicels rather long ebracteate, thickened when fruiting 

 {The East, North India 1 ). 



56. Sterigma DC. 2 — Sepals erect, at base equal slightly contracted. 

 Petals long-unguiculate. Stamens 6, 4-dynamous; filaments of 

 longer connate in pairs half-way up or beyond. Siliqua elongated, 

 more or less curved, subterete inarticulate subtorulose indehiscent ; 

 locelli oo, 2-seriate ; style short cylindrical ; apex stigmatose ; lobes 

 2, divaricated. Seeds descending smooth, immarginate or marginate ; 

 funicles slender free ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons incumbent, flat or 

 concave. — Perennial herbs, robust branching, stellate-tomentose, 

 sometimes glandular-hispid ; leaves entire or pinnatifid ; flowers 3 

 in elongated racemes ; pedicels rather thick ebracteate, spreading 

 thickened when fruiting 4 {The Uast, Siberia!'). 



57 ? Carponema Eckl. & Zeyh. 6 — " Sepals 4, spreading, equal 

 at base. Petals obovate-oblong ; claw cuneate. Lateral stamens 

 toothed at base. Siliqua pendulous sessile slender linear terete, 

 tapering at both ends, indehiscent, oo-locellate, contracted between 

 seeds ; locelli 2-seriate, separated by a membranous septum; alternate 

 ones aspermous ; style conical; stigma obtuse. Seeds oo, 1- seriate 

 oblong terete immarginate ; cotyledons transversely 2-plicate. — An 

 annual branching herb, glabrous or pilose ; branches terete ; leaves 

 elongated linear ; racemes elongated ; 7 pedicels filiform, erect when 

 flowering " 8 {Cape of Good Hope ). 



1 Spec, about 7. Deless., Ic. Set, ii. t. 58. — 5 Spec. 5. Deless., Ic. Sel., ii.t. 83.— Boiss., 

 Cambess., in Jacquem. Toy., Bot., 1. 14. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 240. — Walp., Hep., ii. 762. 



Fl. Or., i. 143.— Walp., Rep., i. 159 ; ii. 759 ; 6 JEnum., 8.— Sond., Revis. Helioph., 3, t. 17. 



Ann., iv. 207; vii. 179. — B. H., Gen., 102 5 n. 172 (whence the descrip- 



2 St/st. Yeg., ii. 579; Prodr., i. 212.— Endl., tion is taken). 



Gen., n. 4946.— B. H., Gen., 102, n. 171.— 7 Flowers blue or violet. 



Sterigmosternon Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc, Suppl., 8 A genus allied to Heliophila. 



44 f » Spec. 1. C. filiforme Sond., loc. cit. ; Fl. 



3 Bather large, yellow. Cap., i. 35. — HeliopHla fliformis L. fil., 



4 " A genus probably most closely allied to Suppl., 296.— DC, Syst., ii. 679.— Walp., Ann., 

 Hesperis." (B. H., loc. cit.) vii. 180. 



