Raphanus. | CRUCIFERZ:. 223 
angles to replum, tip notched or entire; valves boat-shaped, 
winged, or keeled ; replum narrow, membranous. Seeds solitary in 
— each cell ; cotyledons incumbent, sometimes divided. 
EPIDIUM sATIvuM Linn.; F. B. I. i. 159 
Cultivated in Tirhut, Behar and N. Bengal. 
A small annual herb. Vernac. Halim; aleveri. 
47. Thlaspi Linn. 
Herbs, annual or perennial ; leaves entire or toothed, the upper 
often amplexicaul. Flowers small, white or pale pe ae 
Sepals small, erect, equal at the base. Petals small. Capsules 
orbicular, obovate or obcordate, compressed at right mgrthet 
replum ; valves boat-shaped, keeled, or winged; replum narrow, 
membranous ; style short or long. Seeds 2 or more hire 
cotyledons accumbent. 
74. THLASPI ARVENSE Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 162. 
Behar, very rare. 
A weed of cultivation in the cold season. 
48. Senebiera DC. 
Herbs, diffusely branched from the base, annual or biennial ; 
leaves entire or pinnatisect. Flowers small, usually white, race- 
adyn. r 
small, didymous, laterally compressed ; the valves subglobose, not 
Separating, rugose or crested; stigma sessile. Seeds solitary in 
each chamber ; cotyledons incumbent or the embryo spiral. 
75. SENEBIERA PINNATIFIDA DC. 
A weed in garden ground and by roadsides, but apparently 
only in C. Bengal; is especially common at tlah. 
A small diffuse herb; of recent introduction to India. 
49, Raphanus Linn. 
Herbs, glabrous or roughly hispid, annual or biennial ; leaves 
lyrate-pinnatifid. Flowers large, yellow or white or lilac with 
urple veins, in long bractless racemes. Sepals erect, lateral pair 
Saccate at base. Petals clawed. Fruits inhehiscent, elongate- 
Nerehe, thick, continuous or constricted at intervals with a long 
Polnted tapering beak, the valves not separating ; chamber within 
