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pendulous from slender funicle rising from bottom of cell. Embryo 

 subglobose fleshy ; cotyledons closely conduplicate. — Herbs or under- 

 shrubs ; stock thick branching, like the rest of the plant glabrous 

 glaucous or sprinkled with simple hairs ; leaves alternate, often broad 

 pinnatisect ; flowers 1 in large much branched elongated racemes ; 

 pedicels filiform, thickened at apex ; bracts 0, or more rarely minute ; 

 fruit erect-spreading {Europe, Islands North-west of Africa, West 

 Asia"). 



63. Hemicrambe Webb. 3 — Sepals equal at base, spreading. 

 Petals elongated. Stamens 6 ; filaments dilated. Siliqua 2-articulate ; 

 joints 1-celled, 2-valved ; lower smaller sterile, or 1-2-seeded ; 

 upper oo-seeded elongated linear complanate ; margin acute ; ros- 

 trum obtuse empty ; styde short, stigmatose at apex ; valves 1 -ribbed, 

 transversely depressed between seeds, septum rudimentary. Seeds 

 oblong or obovate compressed ; those of lower joint, and lower 

 ones of upper joint descending ; uppermost transverse or 

 obliquely ascending ; cotyledons conduplicate. — A small glabrous 

 shrub ; 4 leaves alternate, long-petiolate, unequally lyrate ; flowers 5 

 in much branched terminal racemes ; pedicels lax filiform elongated 

 ebracteate {Tin git ana*). 



G4. Physorhynchus Hook. 7 — Sepals erect equal at base. Stamens 

 6, free toothless. Siliqua erect, 2-jointed ; lower joint rather short 

 subobconical, longitudinally 2-celled, 2-valved; valves unequal dehis- 

 cent ; cells aspermous ; upper joint much larger, ovoid subconical 

 rostrate, thick suberous nucamentaceous, 2-celled, tapering into style; 

 apex capitellate ; cells 2-4-seeded ; septum thin. Seeds descending 

 compressed ; embryo rather fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate. — An 

 erect glabrous glaucous nndershrub, thick at base, branching, leafy ; 

 leaves alternate, rather fleshy ; lower petiolate ovate ; cauline con- 



1 White. time recalling several Papaverads, such as Boo- 



2 Spec, ahout 15. Eeichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. conia, Chelidonium. 

 t. 2. — Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 91. — Boiss., Fl. 5 Yellow. 



Or., i. 405. — Gben. & Godr., Fl. de Fr., i. 156. 6 Spec. 1. H. fruticulosa Webb, loc. cit. — 



— Walp., Rep., ii. 762 ; Ann., i. 49. Walp., Ann., iv. 215. 



- 3 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xvi. 246, t. 19.— "' Icon., t. 821, 822.— B. B*., Gen., 100, a. 



B. H., Gen., 99, u. 158. 162. 

 4 With the aspect of Brassica, at the same 



