CRUC1FER2E. 2b5 



145. Stroganovia Kar. & Kir.' — Mowers of Lepidium. Siliqua 

 ellipsoid or obovoid, shortly stipitate, obtuse turgid ; valves boat- 

 shaped, 1 -ribbed; septum entire, rather thick, transversely rugose or 

 undulate ; style short ; apex stigmatose capitate. Seeds solitary in 

 each cell, large, filling cells, descending, externally convex, internally 

 flat ; cotyledons unequal nearly flat, or sometimes both concave on 

 inside ; radicle rather short incumbent, more or less oblique, or 

 accumbent. — A tall perennial herb ; root thick ; stem robust ; leaves 

 alternate ; flowers 2 ebracteate in branching, terminal and axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels slender, ebracteate 3 (JSongaria*). 



146. Coronopus Hall. 5 — Sepals short, either subequal at base, or 

 lateral subsaccate. Petals small or more or less abortive. Stamens 

 free toothless, G, or 4 (smaller abortive or 0). Glands 2, anteropos- 

 terior, usually narrow linear. Siliqua small, 2-dymous, laterally 

 compressed ; valves subglobose or rather compressed, rugose or 

 crested ; stigma sessile subspherical. Seeds 1 in each cell, descend- 

 ing ; micropyle extrorse superior ; albumen scanty or ; cotyledons 

 incumbent or induplicate, continuous at tapering base with narrowly 

 conical radicle. — Annual or biennial herbs branching from collar, 

 diffuse ; leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect ; flowers 6 in short 

 leaf-opposed racemes {Temperate and warm regions of both Hemi- 

 spheres 1 '). 



147. Ionopsidium Eeichb. 8 — Perianth and stamens nearly of 

 CocMearia. Siliqua oblong-elliptical or broadly oblong, compressed, 

 obtuse at both ends ; valves subcarinate membranous wingless ; 



1 In Bull. 3Iosc. (1841), 386; (1842), 535.— 2, fig. 21.— Carara Cesalp., PL, 370.— Coty- 

 B. H., Gen., 88, n. 96.— Fotjen., in Bull. Soc. liscus Desyx., Journ. Bot„ iii. 16i, 175, t. 25, 

 Bot, de Fr., ix. 535. fig. 13. 



2 White. 6 White, more rarely purple, very small. 



3 A genus with siliqua analogous to that of 7 Spec, about 6. Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. 

 Camelina and Lepidium. ~ t. 9. — Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 27. — Benth., 



4 Spec. 1 (or 3, 4 ?). Walp., Rep., ii. 763 ; Fl. Austral., i. 82.— BoiSS., Fl. Or., i. 362.— 

 v. 50 ; Ann., vii. 159. Eichl., in Mart. Fl, Bras., Crucif., 307, t. 66. — 



5 Selv., i. 217 (nee T.) — G.ertn., Fruct.,u. Griseb., Fl.Brit. W.Ind„14. — Gben. &Gode., 

 293, t. 242. — Lame., III., t. 558. — Senebiera Fl. de Fr., i. 153 (Senebiera). — Walp., Sep., i. 

 DC., in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par., ann. 7, 140, 190; ii. 764; v. 50; Ann,, i. 50; iv. 222; vii. 

 t. 89; Prodr., i. 202.— PoiR., Diet., vii. 75; 156. 



Suppl., v. 128.— Space, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 8 PI. Crit., vii. 26, t. 649.— DC, Prodr., i. 



577— Enel., Gen., n. 4975.— B. H., Gen,, 87, 174.— B. H., Gen., 86, n. 91. 

 967, n. 92. — Nasturtiolum Medik., Gen., 82, t. 



