gbucifebje: 



283 



Stamens inserted on scarcely glandular receptacle. Siliqua 

 2-dymous vesicular, style erect ; apex stigmatose capitate ; valves 

 globose inflated reticulate, 1, 2-seeded ; septum linear membranous. 

 Seeds descending immarginate ; funicles short free. — A perennial 

 herb, 1 caespitose low glabrous (subglaucous) ; suckers creeping ; leaves 

 alternate slightly fleshy, 3- or palmatifid ; flowers 2 in racemes (some- 

 times subcorymbose) ; pedicles slender, ebracteate [Mountainous 

 Persia 6 ) . 



b. L.EPIDINE.E. — Cotyledons usually incumbent. 



141. Lepidium h. 4 — Sepals equal at base. Petals small, some- 

 time 0. Stamens 6, or 2-4 deficient or deformed. Siliqua ovate 

 obovate obcoidate or oblong, more rarely subglobose, frequently 

 much laterally compressed keeled, apex emarginate winged or 

 wingless ; style slender or nearly absent ; apex stigmatose emarginate, 

 valves of very variable form ; septum narrow membranous. — Seeds 1, 2 

 in each cell, inserted below apex, descending (micropyle extrorse 

 superior) compressed or sub-3-quetrous immarginate ; cotyledons of 

 rather fleshy embryo incumbent, or more rarely accumbent, some- 

 times tripartite ; funicles free. — Undershrubs or more frequently herbs, 

 glabrous or downy, varying in habit, simple or branching, rigid or 

 tender ; leaves varying ; (lowers"' ebracteate, in more or less elongated 

 racemes" {All Temper ale and warn/ regions 7 ). 



1 Habit of Culuteocarpiis ; a plant related to 

 Alyssinece. 



2 White. 



3 Spec. 1. D. Auckeri Boiss., loc.cit.; Fl. 

 Or., i. 318. 



4 Gen., n. 801.— J., Gen., 241.— DC, Prodr., 

 i. 203. — Spach, Sc.it. a Buff on, vi. 5-18. — Endt.., 

 Gen., n. 4932. — Hook. f. & Thoms., in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, v. 173. — A. Gray, Gen. Ill,, t. 73. — 

 15. II., Gen., 87, 967, n. 94.— Manoploga Bge., 

 in PI. Preiss., i. 259. 



5 Small or very small, white, more rarely 

 yellow. 



" The following sections laid down by De 

 Candolle (ex B. H., loc. cit.) are for the most 

 part good : 1. Cardaria (DC). Siliqua ovate- 

 cordate acute; valves wingless; style filiform. 

 (Cardaria Desyx., Journ. Bot., iii. 163. — 

 Beichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 9.) — 2. EWpsaria 

 (DC). Siliqua elliptical ; valves keeled wing- 

 less ; style filiform. (Desf., FL All., t. 117.)— 

 3. Bradypiplum (DC). Siliqua elliptical ; valves 



keeled wingless ; style short. (Ledeb., Ic. 

 Fl. Boss., t. 162.) — 1, Cardamon (DC). Siliqua 

 suborbiculate ; valves subalate ; style short ; coty- 

 ledons tripartite. (Beichb., loc. cit., t. 9. — 

 Thlaspidium Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 557.) — 

 5. Lepia (DC). Siliqua suborbiculate emar- 

 ginate; valves apiculate winged; wings often 

 adnate to very short style. (Beichb., loc. cit., 

 t. 9. — Wedd., Chi. Andina, t. 86 C — Lepia 

 Desyx.. Journ. Bot., iii. 168.) — 6. Dileplium 

 (DC). Siliqua subelliptical ; valves keeled wing- 

 less; stigma sessile; flowers sometimes 2—4- 

 androus. (Beichb., loc. cit., t. 10 — Ledeb., 

 Ic. Fl. Boss., t. 92. — Cynocardamum Webb, 

 Phyt. Canar., i. 96.) — 7. Lepidiastrum (DC). 

 Siliqua ovate or elliptical quite entire ; valves 

 keeled wingless ; stigma sessile (Beichb., loc. 

 cit., t. 10.— Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 73.)" — 8 (?). 

 Physolepidium (Schrenk, Fmtm., 97. — Walp., 

 Bep., ii. 762). Siliqua inflated ; cells 2-seeded 

 or by abortion 1-seeded; valves wingless. 



7 Spec, about 60-80. Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 353.— 



