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of central cell, obovate or oblong, immarginate ; cotyledons of 

 thick embryo incumbent, concave or subconduplicate. — An annual 

 herb, glabrous glaucous, erect ramose ; leaves alternate entire ; 

 inferior petiolate ; superior auriculate-2-lobed ; flowers 1 in straight 

 elongated racemes ; pedicels ebracteate short erect ; when fruiting 

 thickened obconical hollow {Southern Europe, the Bast 2 ). 



83. Sobolewskia Bieb. 3 — Sepals equal at base, patulous. Stamens 

 6, 4-dynamous ; lateral very short ; longer broader at base. Siliqua 

 ascending subclavate, slightly compressed or terete, suberect or 

 curved, subcoriaceous ribbed, 1 -celled; apex tumid hollow; stigma 

 globose sessile. Seed 1 (abortive ovules 1—2) descending from near 

 apex of cell by short funicle, elongated, cylindrical or subfusiform ; 

 cotyledons of fleshy embryo elongated incumbent. — Herbs, erect 

 branching glabrous ; leaves long-petiolate subrotundate crenate ; 

 flowers 4 in ebracteate racemes ; pedicels slender ; when fruiting 

 thickened decurved (Asia Minor'). 



84. Spirorhynchus Kar. & Kir. 5 — Sepals erect, equal at base. 

 Petals long linear, slightly contracted at base. Stamens 6, 4-dyna- 

 mous ; lateral 2 shorter sterile ; longer fertile, connate in pairs ; 

 placentary glands elongated. Siliqua elongated, subterete, taper- 

 ing at both ends, 2-ribbed, at apex prolonged to a very long style, 

 curved slender narrowly 2-winged or marginate, 1 -celled, indehiscent. 

 Seed descending oblong immarginate ; embryo coloured; 7 cotyledons 

 narrow incumbent ; radicle conical, thickened at middle. — -Herbs, 

 annual branching glabrous ; leaves linear, sinuate-dentate or 

 pinnatifld ; flowers few in elongated racemes ; pedicels filiform ; 

 when fructiferous patulous or deflexed 8 (Persia, Sonf/arid*). 



1 Yellow, small. Deless., Io. Sel„ ii. t. 80. — Tchijiatcit., As. 



2 Spec. 1. M. perfoliatum L., Spec, 893.— Min., Bot., i. 346.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 244.— 

 Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 4. — Grex. & Walp., Ann., ii. 52. 



Godr., Fl. de Fr., ii. 129.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 6 In Bull. Mosc. (1812), i. 160.— B. H., Gen., 



SlO.—Cakile perfoliate/, Lh£r., in DC. Fl. Fr., 95, n. 137. 



iv. 720. 7 Yellowish. 



3 Fl. Taur.-Cauc., Snppl., 421. — DC, Prodr., s " A genus approaching the Raplianece." 

 i. 212.— Exdl., Gen., n. 4941.— B. H., Gen., 95, (B. H., loc. cit.) 



n. 136. ' 9 Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 385.— Walp., Rep., ii. 



4 Small, white. 702. 



5 Spec. 4. W., Spec., iii. 450 (Cochlearia). — 



