274 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



114. MenkeaLiEHM. 1 — Sepals short, patulous, equal at base. Petals 

 short, much contracted at base. Stamens 6 ; filaments free, slightly 

 dilated at very base, toothless. Siliqua elliptical or linear-oblong 

 obtuse, strongly compressed ; style short ; apex stigmatose sub- 

 capitate or subemarginate ; valves very flat submembranous, 1 -ribbed 

 reticulately venose ; septum thin, sometimes nearly absent or edging 

 replum. Seeds co, small, 2-seriate striated immarginate ; funicles 

 capillary, sometimes very long ; embryo rather fleshy ; cotyledons 

 incumbent. — Annual herbs, thin slender banching, glabrous or puber- 

 ulous ; leaves alternate entire linear, generally few ; flowers 2 ebracteate 

 in short racemes (South Western Australia*). 



115? Sphserocardamum Schau. 4 - — Sepals 4, patulous equal. 

 Petals narrow. Stamens toothless. Siliqua 5 subglobose, slightly 

 marginate, 4-seeded ; valves strongly convex, obscurely J -ribbed at 

 back ; septum entire ; style persistent. Seeds pendulous immargin- 

 ate smooth ; funicles very short ; cotyledons incumbent flat across 

 septum. — A small annual or biennial herb, 6 erect branching above, 

 hoary-hairy ; leaves linear-lanceolate sessile, quite entire or repand 

 denticulate ; racemes 7 elongated bare ebracteate 8 (Jlecvico 9 ). 



116. Geccoecus J. Drumm. 10 — Sepals short patulous, equal at base. 

 Petals small. Siliqua 11 oblong subcompressed obtuse ; valves ribbed ; 

 septum ....?; replum broad ; stigma sessile simple. Seeds few 

 sub-2-seriate oblong immarginate ; funicles elongated. — A low 

 depressed glabrous herb ; leaves all radical stellate spreading sub- 

 membranous, pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; flowers subsessile 12 (South 

 Western Australia™). 



perhaps varieties of one). C. sativa Fe., Nor. 5 " Very small, hoary." 



Mant., iii. 72. — Reiche., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. fi " Habit of Neslia." 



24. — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 311.— Geen. & Godb., 7 " Flowers very small, whitish or pale yellow." 



Fl. de Fr., i. 130. — Walp., Rep., i. 173 ; v. s " Perhaps rather allied to Lepidium." 



40. — C. sylvestris Walle., Sched., 347. — (B. H., loc. cit.) 



Myagrwm sativum C. Bauh., Pin., 109. 9 Spec. 1. S. nediaforme Schatt., loc. cit. — 



1 hid. Sem. Mori. Hamburg. (1843), 8. — Walp., Ann., i. 43. 



B. H., Gen., 83, n. 75. 10 Ex Hakv., New Gen. of W. Austral. PI., 



2 Small, white. in Hook. Journ., vii. 52. — B. H., Gen., 83, n. 71. 



3 Spec. 2. Hook., Icon., t. 610, 617 (Ste- n When ripening hidden in the earth. 

 nopetalum). — F. aTuell., Fragm., ii. 142 ; PI. u " Very small, w hite." 



Vict., i. 222. — Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 80. — 13 Spec. 1. G. pusilhts J. Deumm., loc. cit. — 



Walp., Rep., v. 41. Walp., Ann., iv. 208. 



4 In Linnctn, xx. 720. — B. H., Gen., 83, n. 

 73 (whence our description). 



