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tracted at base, auriculate ; flowers 1 in elongated racemes ; pedicels 

 ebracteate rather short, finally thickened at apex {Afghanistan 2 ). 



65. Fortuynia Shutt. 3 — Sepals erect equal at base. Petals linear. 

 Stamens 6, 4-dynamous, free. Siliqua very compressed elliptical or 

 obovate, 2-jointed ; lower joint aspermous, longitudinally 2-celled, 

 2-valved ; upper subglobose thick indehiscent 2-celled, 2-seeded ; 

 margin dilated into a broad wing ; style short, stigmatose emarginate 

 at apex. Seed descending from near apex of each cell ; embryo 

 fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate ; radicle cylindrical accumbent. — 

 Perennial erect virgate glabrous herbs; leaves alternate oblong 

 entire glabrous glaucous fleshy ; flowers 4 in simple or scarcely 

 branched straight elongated terminal racemes {Persia*). 



66. Erucaria G^ertn. 6 — Sepals equal at base, erect. Petals long- 

 unguiculate. Stamens 6, free. Siliqua 2-jointed ; upper joint 

 globose or elongated ensiform, sometimes ovoid {Guiraoa 1 ) rostrate 

 indehiscent, 1-4-locellate ; cells superposed 1 -seeded; seeds ascending; 

 style elongated ; stigmatose apex capitellate {Guiraoa) or emarginate ; 

 lower joint elongated cylindrical or compressed 2-valved ; valves 

 long-rectangular; septum membranous; seeds oo descending. Embryo 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of seeds of upper joint conduplicate ; of lower 

 incumbent conduplicate or convolute, sometimes undulate. — Annual 

 erect branching glabrous herbs; leaves sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid ; 

 racemes ebracteate ; flowers variable ; 8 pedicels thickened at apex, 

 erect when fruiting {South Europe, North Africa, Syria, Persia, 

 Greece*). 



67. Morisia J. Gay. 10 — Sepals erect ; lateral subsaccate at base. 



1 Middle-sized, white. 7 Coss., Not. PI. Mid. Esp., iii. 97.— B. H„ 



2 Spec. 1. P. brahmicus Hook., loc. cit. — Gen., 100, n. 160. — Walp., Ann., iii. 824. 

 Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 402. — Walp., Ann., iv. 215. 8 White, yellow, reddish white, or purple, 



3 Ex Boiss., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xvi. small or rather large ; pedicels long or short. 

 379.— B. H., Gen., 100, n. 161. 9 Spec. 4. R. Be., in Ait. Sort. Keic, ed. 



4 Small, white. 2, iv. 122. — Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 95. — Del., 



5 Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 401.— Walp., Sep., i. FL d'Egypte, 30.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 365.— 

 183. Walp., Rep., ii. 764 ; Ann., i. 50 ; ii. 56 ; vii. 



6 Fruct., ii. 298, t. 143, fig. 9.— DC, Prodr., 178. 



i. 230.— Endl., Gen., n. 4974. — B. H., Gen., 10 In Colla Sort. Ripul., App., iv. 50. — 



100, n. 159.—? Reboudia Coss., in Bull. Soc. Moris, Fl. Sard., t. 7.— Endl., Gen., n. 4947.— 



Bot. de Fr., iii. 705. B. H., Gen., 100, n. 163. 



