Cnrdawine.] VIII. CKUCIFER^. 45 



specimens). Fruiting racemes usually short and rather dense, the pedicels not 

 very spreading. Pods erect, slender, usually 7 to 9 lines long, and scarcely 

 more than ^ line broad, the stigma sessile or on a style not longer than the 

 breadth of the pod. Seeds smooth, as broad as the septum, and in a single row 

 as in all the preceding species. — Reichb. le. Fl. Germ. ii. t. 26 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 20; C. pannflom, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 152 ; also F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 

 86, partly ; C. dehilU, Banks in DC. Syst. , Veg. ii. 265 ; ( '. paiicijw/a, Turcz. in 

 Bull. Mosc. 1854 ii. 295. 

 Hab.: Not uncommon damp land in the southern parts pf the colony. 



3. C eustylis (style prominent on fruit), F. v. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 

 114 ; PL Vict. i. 37 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 70. An erect annual, much branched 

 from the base, scarcely exceeding 6 to Sin. in height and quite glabrous. Leaves 

 pinnately divided, the lower ones with ovate segments, the others with narrower 

 ones, all usually with a few teeth or lobes. Flowers smaller than in C. Idrsuta, 

 the petals narrow, erect, and scarcely exceeding the calyx. Fruiting racemes 

 short, leafless. Pods rather spreading, slender, 6 to 9 lines long, tipped by a 

 style of \ to near 1 line, the valves convex, smooth, without nerves. Seeds very 

 numerous and small, much narrower than the septum, and showing 2 distinct 

 rows. 



Hab.: Eiver banks in tropical parts of the colony. 



3. ALYSSUM, Linn. 

 (Supposed by the ancients to have the power of allaying anger.) 

 (Meniocus, Desv.) 

 Sepals rather short, equal at the ,base. Petals rather short, entire or bifid. 

 Stamens often bearing a tooth or small appendage on the filaments of some or 

 all of them. Pod short, from nearly orbicular to oblong, very flat or turgid ; 

 the valves flat, concave, or turgid in the centre and flat on the margins, the sep- 

 tum membranous ; style short or long, with an entire stigma. Seeds 2 to 10 in 

 each cell. Cotyledons accumbent. — Br3,nching herbs or small shrubs, usually 

 hoary with stellats tomentum. Leaves undivided, usually linear. Racemes 

 without bracts, with white or yellow flowers. 



A large genus, dispersed over the temperate regions of the Old World, but chiefly in the 

 Mediterranean region and western Asia. None are found in America, eastern Asia, or in the 

 Pacific Islands. The only Australian species is identical with one common in the eastern 

 Mediterranean region. — Benth. 



1. A. linifoliutn (flax-leaved), Steph. in Willd. Spec. PI. iii. 467 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Aiistr. i. 71. A small, but hard, wiry, and much-branched erect annual, hoary, 

 with a minute, qlose, stellate tomentum. Leaves linear, oblpng, oblong-spathu- 

 late or almost obovate, mostly under \m., bat the longest sometimes nearly lin. 

 long, quite entire. Flowers white, very small. Pods orbicular or broadly ovate, 

 2 to 3 lines long, minutely hoary ; the valves flat and without nerves ; style 

 small, subulate. Seeds 4 to 6 in each cell. — Meniocus Unifolius, DC. Syst. Veg. 

 ii. 325 ; Deless.'Ic. Sel. ii. t. 42 ; M. Serpyllifolin^, Desv. ; DC. I.e. ; M. aiistra- 

 lasicm, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. 297. 



Hab.: Inland downs country. 



4. SISYMBRIUM, Linn. 



(Name given by Greeks to some fragrant plant ; not at present day recognised). 



Sepals equal or the lateral ones slightly saccate. Petals usually elongated, 

 with long claws. Pod linear-elongated, cylindrical or flattened, several-seeded, 

 the valves usually convex and 3 -nerved ; septum membranous ; style usually 

 short, with an entire or slightly 2-lobed stigma. Seeds in a single row, not 



