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III. CAKILE^. 



58. Cakile T. — Lateral sepals more or less gibbous. Stamens 

 6. Glands 4 ; 2 internal to smaller stamens ; 2 compressed-conoidal 

 external to larger stamens. Siliqua long-subconical, drupaceous, finally 

 suberous nucamentaceous, 2-jointed; lower joint unequally ob- 

 pyramidal, compressed 2-edged, truncate at apex ; upper concave 

 conical or broadly ensiform, at base truncate-straight or decurrent, 

 2-alate ; stigma sessile. Seeds solitary in each joint ; integument 

 thin ; embryo fleshy ; radicle long, cylindro-conoidal ; cotyledons 

 narrow, incumbent or more rarely oblique. Seed of upper joint 

 ascending suberect ; seed of lower descending. — Annual branch- 

 ing herbs, fleshy glabrous ; leaves entire or pinnatifid ; flowers 

 racemose, ebracteate {Europe, Coast of North America, Australia) 

 Seep. 195. 



59. Enarthrocarpus Labill. 1 — Sepals equal, or lateral saccate at 

 base. Siliqua oblong or much elongated, straight or curved, sub- 

 compressed, indehiscent ; joints 2 ; lower shorter, 1- or more rarely 

 2-celled, l-4-seeded ; seeds descending ; upper multilocellate, con- 

 tinuous or more or less contracted between seeds ; pericarp 

 subdrupaceous through induration of endocarp ; seeds ascending ; 

 embryo fleshy ; cotyledons elongated incumbent, more rarely 

 conduplicate or complicate in lower joint. — Annual erect branching 

 herbs ; lower leaves lyrate ; upper coarsely dentate ; racemes 2 

 elongated ; pedicels more or less thickened, sometimes short obconical 

 erect (Hitsso/iia 3 ), sometimes all bracteate, or only the lower ones 4 

 {The East, North Africa"). 



60. Rapistrum Boerh. 6 — Sepals lax, equal or unequal at base. 



1 Fl. Syr., Dec. v. 4, t. 2.— DC, Prodr., i. 5 Spec. 4. Dei., Fl. d'Fgypte, t. 36, fig. 1 

 129.— Endl., Gen., n. 4970.— B. H., Gen., 99, {Raphanus).— Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 93.— Boiss., 

 u- 157. Fl. Or., i. 398.— Walp., Ann., ii. 55 ; iv. 221. 



2 Flowers yellow or purplish. 6 Lugd.-Bat., 406— Destx., Journ. JBot., iii. 



3 Boiss., JDiagn. Or., viii. 46. 150— DC, Prodr., i. 227.— Endl., Gen., n. 



4 " A genus scarcely distinguishable from 4968. — B. H., Gen., 99, n. 155. 

 JSruca, except by connate valves of lower joint." 



^B. H., loc. oil.) t 



