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narrow 



wards the genus Boreavay and in the snout being but very little 



differ 



A nguillicarpvs, Spirorhynchtts. 



Sepals, two of them saccate none saccate. 



K'ectaries, present absent. 



Anthers, six four. 



Filaments, all free longer united in pairs. 



count 



flower as of uncertain value, 



seeing that sometimes in the Cruciferae they characterise genera 



instance 



of the stamens in Gardantine hirsuta^ Linn., or the complete fusion 

 of pairs of filaments and anthers in some species of Lepidium and 



uncertain 



with 



The position of AnguilUcarptts in the linear arrangement of the 



order 



Other allied genera 

 but not so nearly allied, are Calepina and Sameraria. The reduced 

 genus Hussonia (reduced to JErticaria) has a superficial resemblance 

 in fruit. Spirorhynchus sabulosus has a suspended, elongated seed ^ 

 like that of Anguillicarpus ; whether it shows signs of an aborted 

 OYule below it or not I am unable to say. The flattened part of 

 the beak in Anguillicarpus is apparently the style, while the 



ra 



Anguillicarpus. Genus monotypicum, ex afl&nitate Spirorhyn- 

 chi et Boreavse inter Cruciferas. Herba glabra. Stigma bilobum. 

 Fructusindehiscens, elotigatus- Embryo ad coll um deflexus. Coty- 

 ledones incumbentes, fere plani. CJiaracteres prsecedentes sunt 

 Sisymbriinarum. Inter Sisjmbriinas distinguitur floribus melli- 

 feris, starainibus omnibus fertilibus, filamentis liberis, fructibus 

 nee dehiscentibus nee articulatis nee planis, seminibus singulis 

 elongatis. 



Herba 



ramosa 



ramulis aliquomodo intertextis ; rami gradatim in 

 racemos transeuntes. Folia inferiora anguste runcinato-pinnati- 

 secta, longiora ad 4 cm. longa, dentibusremotioribus subsequalibus 

 acutis deflexis vel patulis saepius suboppositis subtriangularibus 

 2 mm. longis ; folia superiora linearia, margine subsequali. Bacemi 

 laxi; pedicelli 3-4 mm, longi, Plores, ut videtur, lilacini. Sepala 

 biformia, altera basi gibbosa, altera basi rotundata, 3 mm. longa. 

 Petala ligulata, apice subrotundata, pinnatineryia, 8 mm. longa. 

 Stamina sex, longiora libera sepala pauUulo superantia, breviora 



I Boissier in his Flora Oriental ia i. ( 1867) p. 385, wrote " Semen erectum " : 

 bat Pmntl (in Engler u. Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien, iii., pt. 2, 1892, p. 171) 

 wrote : Samen hangend," with a note of exclamation after it to denote thac 

 He Was positive on the point. 



