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155? Stubendorfia Sciirenk. 1 — Flowers...? Siliqua obovate or 

 obcordate compressed, 2-celled, scarcely dehiscent ; valves boat- 

 shaped membranous-winged veined ; septum narrow membranous ; 

 style very short. Seed in one cell abortive : in the other descending ; 

 funicle short ; cotyledons long-tapering at base, incumbent. — A tall 

 herb ;" root thick perennial ; leaves spathulate ; flowers in a large 

 much branching raceme ; fruiting pedicels pendulous {Songaria 3 ). 



156. Eunomia DC. 4 — Flowers nearly of JEthionema. Stamens 6, 

 toothless. Siliqua elliptical flat-compressed ; valves compressed- 

 keeled, winged at apex ; septum elongated membranous ; style short; 

 apex stigmatose capitate, 2-lobed. Seeds 1, 2 in each cell ; funicles 

 more or less adnate to septum at base. — Shrubs or subcsespitose 

 herbs ; leaves opposite, sessile or amplexicaul, entire ; flowers 5 in 

 sometimes corymbiform racemes {Asia Minor ). 



157. .ZEthionema R. Br. 7 — Sepals subunequal ; lateral sometimes 

 subsaccate at base. Stamens 6 ; larger either connate, or dilated 

 outside at base, with an internal tooth below apex. Glands hardly 

 .conspicuous. Siliqua cymbiform or cochleate ; valves broadly 

 winged, with sometimes dentate wings, boat-shaped at middle 

 septum membranous ; style short ; apex stigmatose capitate, sub 

 entire or 2-lobed. Seeds co, or more rarely few, immarginate 

 funicles free. — Herbs or undershrubs ; stem terete ; branches thin 

 leaves generally glabrous glaucous, articulated at base, subsessile ; 

 inferior sometimes opposite ; flowers 8 racemose crowded ; pedicels 

 articulate at base, ebracteate, slender {South Europe, Asia Minor, 

 Persia*). 



158. Bivonea DC. 10 — Flowers nearly of Lepidium ; sepals sub- 



1 In Linneea, xviii. 218. — B. H., Gen., 89, n. 

 103. 



2 Aspect of Isatis ; stem robust glabrous. 



3 Spec. 1. S. orientalis Schrenck, loc. eit. — 

 Walp., Rep., v. 50. 



4 Sgst. Veg., ii. 555 ; Prodr., i. 208. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 4930.— B. H_, Gen., 89, n. 101. 



5 Small, white. 



6 Spec, about 2. Jatjb. & Spach, III. PI. Or., 

 t. 51. — BoiSS., Fl. Or., i. 314 (JEthionema). — 

 Walp., Rej)., i. 175; v. 41 ; Ann., ii. 50; iii. 

 212 ; vii. 155. 



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7 In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 80.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 208.— Endl.. Gen., n. 4934.— B. H., 

 Gen., 88, n. 99. — DiastropMs Fisch. & Met., 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop., 35 (ex Bge.). 



8 Purple, pink, or flesh-coloured. 



9 Spec, about 15. Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 74, 

 75. — Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 11. — Boiss., 

 Fl. Or., i. 341.— Gren. & Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 

 112. — Walp., Ann., i. 44; ii. 51. 



10 Si/st. Veg., ii. 554; Prodr., i. 20S.— Endl., 

 Gen., n. 4929.— B. H., Gen., 88, n. 98 (nee 

 Mo:;., nee Rafin.). 



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