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ebracteate racemes, afterwards elongated {Central Europe, Western 

 Asia 1 ). 



88. Ochthodium DC. 2 — Sepals subequal at base. Stamens free 

 without teeth. Siliqua short, subquadrate-rotundate or broadly 

 rhomboid ; angles tuberculate-rugose ; style short, apex stigmatose 

 emarginate ; septum thick; cells 2, 1-seeded. Seeds descending 

 oblong compressed ; radicle obliquely ascending ; cotyledons incum- 

 bent or obliquely accumbent. — An annual herb, erect branching rigid, 

 glabrous or pilose at base ; leaves pinnatisect or lyrate-pinnatifid ; 

 flowers 3 in elongated racemes ; pedicels slender ; when fruiting erect 

 thickened-subclavate {The EasP). 



89. Zilla Forsk. 5 — Sepals equal at base, erect. Petals obtuse, 

 rather broadly unguiculate. Stamens 6, free ; filaments without 

 teeth ; anthers sometimes subsagittate. Siliqua subpyramidate or 

 ovate ; epicarp produced to 2-4 (or 0) longitudinal wings ; 6 endocarp 

 long or crustaceous, 2-celled ; style subulate, apex stigmatose sub- 

 globose. Seeds descending solitary in each cell ; funicle short ; 

 embryo sometimes coloured ; 7 radicle arcuate ; cotyledons condupli- 

 cate, sometimes longitudinally undulate or subplicate. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs, very branching leafy glaucescent; twigs often divaricated 

 and thorny spinescent ; leaves oblong dentate rather thick ; flowers 8 

 loosely racemose, ebracteate or solitary {Persia, Arabia, North Africa?). 



90. Cycloptychis E. Mey. 10 — Sepals erect, rather thick, longitu- 

 dinally 3-ribbed, at base slightly unequal ; 2 lateral slightly gibbous. 

 Petals narrow-elongate subsessile. Stamens free ; anthers sometimes 

 subsagittate. Siliqua nucamentaceous orbicular-ovate strongly 



1 Spec. 2. Gjertn., Fruct., ii. t. 141, fig. 11 6 " Z. Chamcerapistrum Boiss. shows two 



(Bunias). — Reiche-., Ie. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 1. — very small valves at base of siliqua, and so allied 



Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 368. to genuine Cakilinem." (B. H., loc. cit.) 



a Syst. Teg., ii. 423 ; Prodr., i. 184.— Endl., 7 Green. 



Gen., n. 4897. — B. H., Gen., 97, n. 146. 8 Rather large, white or violet. 



3 Yellow, very small. 9 Spec. 4. Vent., Jard. Malm., t. 16 (Bu- 



4 Jacq., Rort. Vindol., t. 145 (Bunias). — nias). — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 408. — Waep., Rep., i. 

 Boiss., FL Or., i. 369. 188; ii. 763; Arm., vii. 176. 



5 Fl. Mgypt.-Arah., 121 ; Icon., t. 17 A.— 10 In Rerb. Dreg.— Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cup., 

 DC, Prodr., i. 224.— Endl., Gen., n. 4961.— i. 34— B. H., Gen., 98, n. 151. 



B. H., Gen., 98, n. 152. 



