128 • CRUCIFERE. — NOTOCERAS. MORETTIA. 



tione Beni-Aïeïcha (Doûm.), Guesser-el-Ahmar, Dj. Haltig , El-Guetlar, Dj. Oum- 

 Ali (Doûm. et Bonn. miss. 1 884) ; Gabès frequens (Kral.); Dj. Tadjera, Bled- 

 Kebira (Ghomrassen) , Oued Zitoun (Lx miss. i884). — MAR. Tetouan (Webb); 

 Figuig (War.); Keïra (Bal.), inter Misra-ben-Kara et urbem Maroc, ad nrbem 

 Maroc (Hook. et Bail); frequens in provinciis austro-occidental ibus inter Agadir 

 et Tazeroualt (Mard.); ad palmetum Akka (Mard.). 



In vEgypto?, insulisCanariis; in Hispania australiore; Palœstina, Arabia petrœa, 

 Mascate, Pundjab, Afghanistan, Beloulchistan. 



TRIBUS II. CMORISPOREJE. 



Siliqua longa vel breviuscula, plus minus compressa teretiuscula vel 

 subtetragona, haud articulata, bilocularis, tum dehiscens vel tardissime 

 dehiscens valvls septo œquilatis intus transversim inter semina incrassato- 

 septuïiferis , tum indehiscens suberoso- coriacea in quoque loculo in locellos 

 plus minus crustaceos monospermos divisa. Semina plura vel plurima. 

 Cotyledones plano-convexœ. Radicula commissuralis (o=). 



9. MORETTIA. 



Morettia DC. Syst. II, £26, et Prodr. I, i85 ; Endl. Gen. n. 689/j ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. I, 

 70; Boiss. Or. I, iA5. 



Sepala erecta, lateralia haud saccata. Petala oblongo-linearia, ungui- 

 culata. Siliqua linearis, teretiuscula vel subtctr a gono-compressa , valvis convexis 

 rigidis nervosis, intus inter semina incrassato-septuliferis , serius secedentibus ; 

 septo membranaceo opaco; stigmate bilobo lobis conniventibus divergen- 

 tibusve. Semina plura, uniseriata, compressa, immarginata. Cotyledones 

 plano-convexœ, radiculœ accumbentes. 



Planta? pilis stellalis hispidœ vel cano-tomentosœ. Flores albi. 



1. M. canescens Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 1, vm, 17, et Or. 1, iA5; Coss. Illustr. Ail. 1, 

 31, t. ik. — M. Nakkebiana Hochst.! in sched. manuscr. pi. Arab. Schimp. éd. 2. — 

 Forma parviflora, petalis brevioribus calycem vix excedentibus, siliquis arcuatis, stig- 

 matis lobis etiam demum conniventibus : M. parviflora Boiss. in Ann. se. nat. [18/12] 60, 

 et Or. I, 166. — M. minor Hochst.! in sched. manuscr. pi. Arab. Schimp. éd. 2. — 

 Exs. Kral. in Bourg. Alg. 2A1; Schimp. Arab. petr. 34i, Bové (Sinaï) i4i, Auch. 

 i36; Auch. Mascate £076. 



Planta perennis, cano-tomentosa pube stellata adpressa radiis subaequa- 

 libus, tactu scabrida; caulibus diffusisvel prostratis, rarius ascendentibus, 

 superne ramosis; foliis ovato-oblongis vel oblongis, in petiolum brevem 

 attenuatis, integris vel repando-dentatis; floribus ad apicem racemi basi 

 foliati cito elongati subcorymboso-confertis , pedicellis calyce saepius bre- 

 vioribus; calyce cito deciduo, sepalis oblongis obtusis; petalis calyce ses- 

 quilongioribus vel vix longioribus; glandulis hypogynis valvariis parum 

 prœminentibus; siliquis calyce multo longioribus, in racemos demum 



