284 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



142. Hymenophysa C. A. Mey. 1 — Sepals short, equal at base. 

 Siliqua small inflated globose, few seeded ; style slender, more or less 

 elongated, erect ; apex stigmatose capitellate ; valves boat-shaped, 

 obtuse at back wingless ; septum membranous, entire or fenes- 

 trate. Seeds descending immarginate ; funicle setaceous free.— 

 Perennial branching herbs ; branches leafy ; flowers 2 in corymbose 

 racemes ; pedicels slender, ebracteate 3 (Persia, Altai*). 



143. Brachycarpsea DC. 5 — Sepals erect, at base rather broad erect. 

 Petals much elongated. Siliqua 2-dymous, 2-celled, indehiscent, 

 valves ventricose, emarginate or subcristate. Seeds in cells solitary 

 descending subglobose ; micropyle extrorse superior ; funicle short ; 

 cotyledons of rather fleshy embryo spirally convolute. — Glabrous 

 virgate undershrubs ; leaves sessile linear entire; flowers in 

 elongated racemes ; pedicels rather long ebracteate [Cape of Good 

 Hope'). 



144 ? Physalidium Fenzl. 3 — Sepals patulous, equal at base, Petals 

 broadly obovate orbiculate, shortly unguiculate. Filaments toothless 

 subequal subulate, rather tumid at very base. Siliqua (unripe) ellip- 

 tical-oblong, laterally compressed, 2-celled; cell 1, 2-ovulate in 

 middle, style filiform ; stigma emarginate. Seeds (unripe) oblong, 

 suspended from very thin free funicles. — A herb ; 9 rhizome short 

 woody ; collar thickly crowned with suberous remains of petioles ; 

 stems slender, suberect at apex sparingly branching naked ; 

 leaves long-petiolate reniform-rotundate, largely lobulate-crenate ; 

 flowers 10 subcjanose ; pedicels long slender filiform, ebracteate 11 

 {Northern Persia 1 '). 



Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 83. — Hook, f., 6 Large, yellow or purple. 



Hand. N.-Zeal. Fl., 13.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. "> Spec. 2. Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 100 — 



W. Ind., 14. — Eichl., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Haev. & Sokd., Fl. Cap., i. 33. 



Crucif., 309. — Geen. & Godr., Fl. de F,:, i. 8 In Tchihatch. As. Min., Bot., i. 327.— 



149.— Walp., Rep., i. 176 ; ii. 762 ; v. 42 ; Amu, B. H., Gen., 88, n. 97. 



i. 44; ii. 50; iii. 822 ; iv. 213. 9 "Habit of Saxifraga granulata ; leaves 



1 In Ledeh. Fl. Alt., iii. 180 ; Ic. Fl. Boss., t. inflorescence and flowers wonderfully like those 

 165.— Ekdl., Gen., n. 4933.— B. H., Gen., 88, of Grcdlsia. 



ii. 95. io « White." 



2 White. >' " A genus without doubt very closely allied 



3 Perhaps rather a section of Lepidium (?). to Grcellsia, differing in suppression of ovules 



4 Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 362. — Walp., Rep., i. and contrary compression of siliqua." 



179. l - Spec. 1. P. stylosum Boiss. & Hon ex., 



5 St/st. Teg., ii. 698; Prodr., i. 236. — Endl., Diagn. Or., ser. 1, viii. 4.— Fenzl., loc. cit.— 

 Gen., n. 4976.— B. H., Gen., 87, n. 93. Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 318. 



