222 BENGAL PLANTS. — [Coch 
globose, ovoid or oblong, valves convex, turgid. Seeds 2-seria 
compressed ; cotyledons accumbent. 
OCHLEARIA FLAVA Ham.; F. B. I. i. 145. 
Western Behar and Chota Nagpur, fairly common; 
Bengal, on the banks of the Ganges, very rare, 
44, Alyssum Linn. 
Herbs or small undershrubs, branched, often rigid, pubescent 0 
hoary with stellate hairs or scales: ; leaves linear, entire. Flowers 
small, white or yellow, in bractless racemes. Sepals short, equal 
at the base. Petals with short claws, blade entire or peer 
Filaments often with tooth-like appendages. Capsules short, 
turgid or flattened parallel to replum, orbicular, elliptic, obovate, 
or oblong ; replum membranous, perforated or ver’ aa short 
or long. Seeds few, flattened ; cotyledons accumben 
71. ALyssum maritimum Linn. 3 
In gardens, cultivated in the cold season, but asco 4 
coming up etiens Gta on rubbish-heaps towards 
end of the r 
45, Capsella Linn. 
Weber: Behar ; very rare in C. Ben gal. i 
A weed of cet eae in the cold ae The “ Shep 
herd’s P | 
46. Lepidium Linn. 
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, diffuse or erect ; leaves entire © 
divided. Flowers small, white, bractless. Sepals short, equal at 
the base. Petals Sometimes only 2, or absent. Stam ens 6, 
tetradynamous, or 4, sometimes ‘beri: Capsules ovate 
oblong, rarely globose, usually orbicular, much compressed ati 
