CRUCIFER&. 265 



erect (Frucago 1 ). Petals stamens and disk nearly of Brassica. 

 Siliqua (drupaceous at first) finally nucanientaceous, unequally-ovoid 

 or quadrate, beaked, with or without wings ; cells 1-4, arranged in 

 various ways ; style frequently elongated ; apex stigmatose, capitate 

 or emarginate. Seeds descending, oblong-compressed or cochleate ; 

 funicle short ; cotyledons of fleshy embryo linear, circinately con- 

 volute ; radicle conical. — Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or 

 hairy (hairs furcate or glandulous) ; leaves alternate, entire runcinate 

 or pinnatifid ; flowers 2 racemose, pedicels ebracteate {Europe, Western 

 Asia*). 



94 ? Pyramidium Boiss. 4 — Sepals unequal at base ; lateral 

 shortly saccate. Petals linear twisted. Germen stipitate. Siliqua 

 pyramidate, 4-angular beaked thick, suberous lacunose within, horned 

 on both sides at base; cells 2 or 4, 1 -seeded ; septa thick; stigmas 

 erect. Seeds descending, shortly funiculate ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo accumbent. — An annual herb ; leaves stellate-tomentose 

 oblong; flowers remote alternate subsessile, ebracteate 5 (Afghanistan 6 ). 



95. Octoceras Bge. 7 — Sepals equal at base, patulous. Petals very 

 small. Siliqua unequally cubic pyramidate or obpyramidate, nuca- 

 rnentaceous ; of the cells 2 angular, 2 longitudinally subalate ; septum 

 rather thick ; style conical, apex stigmatose capitate emarginate. 

 Seeds solitary in each cell, pendulous under apex, oblong or obovate ; 

 funicle short ; integuments thin ; radicle of fleshy embryo cylindri- 

 cal or fusiform, incumbent. — A small annual herb, branching from 

 base, covered with stellate down ; leaves sinuate or pinnatifid ; 

 flowers 8 racemose, ebracteate; spikes elongated when fruiting 

 (Afghan is fan, Caspian*) . 



1 DC, Si/st., ii. 670. — -Desvx., loc. cit., 168. phora (of which it is, perhaps, a section), having 

 Fruit 4-celled; angles cristate. its fruit in all external characters; but the 



2 Rather large j yellow, brassicoid. number of seeds is indefinite. 



3 Spec. 3, 4. Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 6 Spec. 1. P. Griffithianum Boiss., loc. cit.; 

 1.— Gren. & Godh., Fl.de Fr., i. 132.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 367. — Walp., Ami., vii. 176. 



Fl. Or., i. 409. — Walp., Ann., ii. 56. ~> Enum. PI. Lehn., 42, t. 4. — B. H., Gen., 



4 Diagn. Or., se"r. 2, i. 47. — Hook. f. & 97, n. 144. 



Thoms., in Joum. Linn. Soc, v. 179.— B. H., 8 Very small, white. 



Gen., 97, n. 148. 9 Spec. 1. 0. Lehmannianum Bge., loc. cit. 



5 A genus of doubtful affinities, referred by Hook. f. & Thoms., in Joum. Linn. Soc, v. 



authors to Isatis. Flowers usually of Matthiola 179. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 370. Walp. Ann. i. 



and Morettia. Hence it is certainly near Loncho- 47. 



