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stigmatose. Seeds o>, 1 -seriate im margin ate. — A csespitose herb hoary 

 with stellate down ; leaves entire ; flowers l in short ebracteate 

 racemes, rather long-pedicellate {Alpine Persia 2 ). 



103. Draba L. 3 - — Sepals short, equal at base. Petals usually short 

 sometimes sessile, narrowed at base, entire, emarginate or 2-partite 

 {Erophila*). Stamens 6, free. Siliqua elliptical or more rarely oval 

 {Petrocaltis 5 ), oblong sometimes elongated (JDottineria*) rarely linear 

 compressed, usually 2-valved, in 1 species [HolargidiumF) 4-valved, 

 with many or few seeds ; style erect, short or elongated ; apex stigma- 

 tose capitate simple, valves very flat, very rarely {Dottinerid) ribbed 

 at middle ; septum membranous. Seeds few or go, 2-seriate immargin- 

 ate ; funicles bristly free {Erophila), or rarely adnate to septum 

 (Petrocallis) ; cotyledons accumbent or more rarely incumbent. — 

 Herbs usually small, csespitose, hoary with stellate down ; stems 

 either naked scapes or leafy ; leaves entire ; radical rosulate ; cauline 

 sessile ; flowers 8 in short or elongated racemes ; pedicel slender, 

 ebracteate 9 (Temperate Alpine and Arctic regions of Northern Hani- 

 sphere, South- West Australia™). 



104? Stenonema Hook.' 1 — "Sepals suberect, equal at base. 

 Petals large emarginate serrate. Filaments filiform toothless. Sili- 

 qua (unripe) ovate, very much compressed, 2-celled; valves flat; 



1 "Yellow, open." Root strong many-crowned. Leaves rosulate 



2 Spec. 1. A. Kotschyi BoiSS., loc. cit.; Fl. rather rigid ciliate, traversed by a strong rib 

 Or., i. 182. — Walp., Ann., i. 29 (part.). below. Flowers white or golden. — b. Ckryso- 



3 Gen., n. 800. — Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. drala. Root strong many-crowned. Leaves 

 421. — J., Gen., 240. — Lamk., Diet., ii. 325 ; rosulate, coriaceous or membranous, hairy or 

 Suppl., ii. 524 (part.) ; III., t. 556. — DC, Prodr., tomentose; rib not prominent below. Flowers 

 i. 166. — Eot>l., Gen., n. 4880. — Hook. p. & golden, rarely white. — c. Leucodraha (incl. 

 Thoms., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 149. — A. Gray, Solargea Auctt.). Root biennial or perennial, 

 Gen. III., t. 68, 69. — B. H., Gen., 74, n. 37. oftener many-crowned. Leaves soft flat neither 



4 DC, Syst., ii. 356 ; Prodr., i. 172. — A. rigid nor keeled. Flowers white. — d. Drabella. 

 Geay, Gen. III., t. 69. — Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., Annual. Stem or scape leafy. Flowers white or 

 ii. t. 12. — B. H., Gen., 75, n. 37. yellow. Capsule often many-seeded." 



5 R. Br., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 93. — 10 Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. 12-16. — Boiss., 

 DC, Prodr., i. 166. — Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., FL Or., i. 292. — Tbiana & Pl., in Ann. So. 

 ii. t. 16. — E> t dl„ Gen., n. 4879. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 61. — Geen. & Godb., Fl. de 



6 Sap/tee, in Flora (1852), 353. Fr., i. 121.— Walp., Rep., i. 147; ii. 758; Ann., 



7 Tuecz., in Ledeb. Fl. Boss., i. 156. i. 34; ii. 43; iv. 198; vii. 120, 126 {Erophila). 



8 Usually small, white, gold-coloured, pink, " Ex Hook, f., Gen., 75, n. 39. — Leptonema 

 lilac, or purplish. Hook., Icon., t. 692 (nee A. Juss.). — Walp., 



9 The genus, from the characters and colour of Rep., v. 37. — DoUchostylis Tuecz., in Bull. 

 its root and leaves, is divided into 4 sections by Mosc. (1854), ii. 305. 



recent authors. (B. H., loc. cit.) "a. Aizopsis. 



