262 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



85. Neslia Desvx. 1 — Sepals subequal at base, patulous. Siliqua 

 shortly stipitate globose subcompressed subcrustaceous reticulated, 

 indehiscent or very slightly dehiscent, 1 -celled by obliteration of 

 septum with 1 or more, rarely few seeds ; style slender ; apex stig- 

 matose emarginate. Seeds obliquely descending or subhorizontal, 

 immaro-inate ; cotyledons incumbent. — An annual herb, erect branch- 

 ing covered with hairs or 2-3-rld bristles; leaves entire orsubentire; 

 cauline sagittate ; flowers 2 in often branching racemes with slender 

 ebracteate pedicels ; fruiting pedicels erect-patent (Europe, Western 

 Asia?). 



S6 ? Palmstruckia Sond. 4 — "Flowers...? Siliqua sessile large 

 orbicular, piano- compressed, 1-celied, 1-seeded, indehiscent; valves 

 nearly fiat not ribbed venose ; style very short. Seed orbicular 

 compressed, broadly winged emarginate ; cotyledons linear incumbent 

 transversely 2-plicate. — An erect herb, decumbent at base, branching ; 

 branches terete ; leaves remote filiform ; flowers turned downwards ; 

 pedicels filiform, ebracteate; racemes elongated when fruiting" (Cape 

 of Good Hope 5 ). 



87. Euclidium E. Bit/ — Sepals equal at base, patulous. Petals 

 attenuated at base. Stamens free, without teeth. Siliqua obliquely 

 ovate-globose dehiscent or indehiscent, 2-celled ; septum thick ; style 

 in fruit obliquely subulate rostrate, in flower stigmatose emarginate 

 at apex. Seeds solitary in either cell, generally descending from 

 apex, broadly oblong-compressed ; embryo fleshy; cotyledons accum- 

 bent or obliquely incumbent ; radicle cylindrical ascending. — Herbs, 

 annual straight branching rigid pubescent; leaves petiolate, entire 

 runcinate or pinnatifkl ; flowers 7 in subspicate, lateral and terminal 



1 Journ. Pot., iii. 162. — DC, Prodr., i. 202. — — Cranibe paniculata AJA^.—Bunias paniculata 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 580. — Endl., Gen., Lh£e. 



ii. 4942. — B. H., Gen., 95, n. 135. 4 Fl. Cap., i. 35 (whence our description). — 



2 Small, yellow. B. H., Gen., 96, n. 138. 



3 Spec. 1. N. paniculata Desvx. — Reicdb., 3 Spec. 1. P. capensis Sond., loc. cit. 



Ie. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 24. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. Walp., Ann., vii. 176. — Peltaria capensis 



371.— Geen. & Gode., Fl. de Fr , i. 131. — Thtt.nb., Fl. Cap., 490 (nee L. fil.). 



Mi/agrum paniculatum L. — Alyssum pani- 6 In Ait. Hort. Few., ed. 2, iv. 74. DC. 



cula/um W. — Rapistrum sagittatum G^etn. — Prodr., i. 184. — Endl., Gen., n. 4896. B. H. 



Cochlearia sagittata Ceantz. — Vogelia sagit- Gen., 97, n. 145. 



tata Medik. — Chamcelinum paniculatum Host. 7 White, very small. 



