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apex globose, not marginate, stigmatose. Seed descending ; coty- 

 ledons of fleshy embryo concave or conduplicate ; radicle cylindrical 

 incumbent, immersed in a layer of albumen. — An annual herb, 

 branching glaucous; leaves alternate entire; inferior petiolate ; 

 superior amplexicaul ; flowers 1 in ebracteate racemes ; fructiferous 

 pedicels decurved {Persia 1 ). 



78. Boreava Jaub. & Spach. 3 — Sepals subequal patulous. Petals 

 long-unguiculate. Stamens 6, 4-dynamous. Glands rather prominent 

 between larger stamens ; subcorneal subcircinate around smaller. 

 Siliqua ovoid-4-gonous, 4 -winged, crustaceous, at apex tapering to 

 pyramidate style; stigma capitate simple; ovule 1, descending; 

 raphe dorsal. Seed alone in loculus, descending, glabrous, immar- 

 ginate ; radicle superior accumbent : cotyledons concave or inflexed. — 

 A glabrous erect brandling herb ; leaves sessile cordate-amplexicaul 

 entire ; flowers 4 arranged in ramose patulous racemes, ebracteate 

 {Asia Minor 6 ). 



79. Calepina Adans. 6 — Sepals equal at base, patulous. Petals 

 unguiculate ; exterior usually somewhat shorter. Stamens G, free, 

 4-dynamous. Siliqua small, thick ovoid or oblong, subcompressed, 

 subdrupaceous ; endocarp crustaceous lacunose, indehiscent, 1 -seeded; 

 style short compressed ; apex stigmatose subcapitate. Seed descend- 

 ing glabrous ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate. — An annual 

 herb, erect branching glabrous ; radical leaves pinnatifid ; cauline 

 sagittate at base ; flowers 7 racemose ; pedicels ebracteate slender, 

 when fruiting erect-patent {Southern Europe, Asia Minor, and 

 Northern Asia s ). 



1 Yellow, smnll. 



2 Spec. 1. T. glastifolium Fisch. & Mey., 

 loc. cit. — T. stylophorum Jatjb. & Spach, III. 

 PI. Or., t. 50. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 375 (Sa- 

 rneraria). — Walp., Rep., v. 43. 



3 III. PI. Or., i. 3, t. 2.— B. H., Gen., 95, n. 

 134. — Martinsia Gode., Fl. Juven.. ed. 2, 58. 



4 Middle size, yellow (almost of Diplotaxis). 



5 Spec. 1. B. oricntalis Jaub. & Spach, loc. 

 cit. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 372 — Walp., Rep., i. 

 ISO; Ann., ii. 53. 



6 Fam. des PI, ii. 423.— DC, Syst. Veg., ii. 

 648 ; Prodr., i. 255. — Endl., Gen., n. 4966.— 

 B. H., Gen., 96, n. 140. 



' Small, white. 



8 Spec. 1. C. Corvini Desvx., Joum. Rot., 

 iii. 158.— Geen. & Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 132. — 

 Keichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 2. — Boiss., Fl. 

 Or., i. 409. — Rvnias cochlear ioides DC. — Mya- 

 grum eruccefulium Vill. — 31. bursifolium 

 Thuill. — Crambe Corvini All., Fl. Pedem., i. 

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