80” 
(1) D. rorurosa. (H. F. & T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms, Flor. Ind. I. p. 272. 
Spec. Car. Herbaceous: stems climbing, angled: Jeaves 2-3= 
pinnatisect; primary pinne long-petioled, divaricate ; pinnule few, 
remote, elliptic, acute; petiole often divided at the apex dichoto- 
mously into tendrilled capillary branches: peduncles leaf-opposed, 
somewhat umbellately corymbose: flowers pendulous, golden- 
coloured. 
Khasia hills, flowering in August. 
(2) D. Royvus. (H. F. § T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p, 273. 
Srrc, Cuar. Herbaceous, decumbent or somewhat climbing: 
corymbs 2-3-flowered: sepals ovate-subulate; outer petals broad, 
with a short spur, very shortly acuminated: stigma lunate; seeds 
in two rows, black shining. 
Khasia hills, flowering from May to July, 
ORDER IX. CRUCIFERZ. 
Annual, biennial, or perennial, herbaceous plants, rarely 
under shrubs; leaves alternate: sepals 4, two narrower than 
the others: petals 4, cruciform, alternate with the sepals ; 
stamens 6, hypogynous, two of which are shorter, solitaiy, and, 
opposite the sepals, sometimes toothed: the four longer ones 
are in pairs, and sometimes furnished with a tooth inside: 
flowers in terminal racemes, lengthening out. after expansion, 
usually yellow or white, seldom purple, without bracts: anthers 
introrse, 2-celled: receptacle furnished with’ glands between 
the stamens and petals: ovary superior, usually 2-celled: fruit 
a siliqua or silicule, 1 or 2-celled, 1 or many-seeded, rarely 
indehiscent: seeds attached by a funiculus to each side alter. 
nately of the partitions: albumen none: radicle folded up on 
the cotyledons, 
GENUS I. NASTURTIUM. 
Tetradynamia Siliquosa. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Nasus, the nose, and Tortus, twisted, the acrid taste , 
affecting the muscles. 
