132 X. CRUCiFEH^. (Hook. f. & T. AndersQ-n.) [Parrya. 



margins ; petiole long, tase sheathing. Scapes pilose, thick, sometimes bearing 1 or 2 

 smaU leaves. Fods f-l J in., tapering into the short thick style ; vaWes thin, convex, 

 not veined, midrib distinct. Seeds few. 



4. P. lanuginosa, H.f. & T. Jovim. Linn. Soc. v. 136 ; leaves spathu- 

 late coarsely toothed, scapes woolly 8-12-flowered, pods ovate-lanceolate, 

 seeds not winged 



West Tibet; in Gngi, alt. 17,500 ft., Strach. & Winterh. 



Small, densely woolly. Scapes erect, 2 in. ; flowers small, racemose. Sepals spread- 

 ing, woolly. JPetcds broadly spathulate, undulate or crisped. Pods acute, about | m., 

 outline waving ; septum very narrow, sometimes 0. 



3. CHEIRANTHVS, linn. 



Hoary herbs, or undershrubs, with appressed bipartite hairs. Leaves 

 oblong-linear, entire or toothed. Flowers large, yellow or purple, racemed. 

 Sepals erect, lateral saccate at the base. Fetals clawed. PotZ 4-angled, 

 compressed ; valves 1-nerved ; septum membranous ; stigmatic-lobes short, 

 spreading. Seeds 1-seriate, flattened, without a border ; cotyledons accum- 

 bent, very rarely incumbent.— Disteib. Species about 12, natives of temp. 

 Europe, N. AJfrica, W. Asia, and arctic America. 



The Wall-flower, O. Cheiri, is cultivated in gardens in N. India, hut is not indigenous. 



1. C parryoides, Kurz. mss. (narne only) ; hoary, leaves linear-oblong 

 entire all radical, flowers purple, style | in. 



West Tibet ; in Spiti, Stoliczka. 



Eootstock covered with withered petioles. Leaves all radical, 2-3 in., rounded at 

 the tip, clothed with fine dense tomentum. Scapes about 9 in., many-flowered, elon- 

 gating during flowering. Pedicels |-1 in., erect, tomentose. Sepals J in., hairy, purple, 

 with a glabrous narrow membranous fringe. Petals g in., claw and base of the blade 

 dark purple. Pods (immature) curved and undulate, densely tomentose ; style j'j in., 

 glabrous. 



2. C. himalayensis, Gamh. m Jacq. Voy. Bot. 14, 1. 13 ; leaves Hnear- 

 spathulate entire lobed or rarely subpinnatitid, flowers violet or purphsh, 

 pods hairy, stigma sessile. C. himalaicus, E. f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 

 137. 



West Tibet ; amongst rocks and loose stones, alt. 15-17,000 ft. 



Sootstoch much divided. Stems 2 -6 in., numerous, leafy, tomentose. Leaves some- 

 what tufted. Flowers numerous, in rather dense terminal raeemose heads, fragiVnt. 

 Sepals short, lanceolate, obtuse, lateral scarcely saccate at the base. Petals twice the 

 length of the sepals, broadly spathulate retuse. Pods |-14 in., linear, compressed; 

 valves with thickened margins. Seeds numerous, sub-2-seriate. 



3. C. Stewartii, T. Anders.; leaves spathulate toothed at the tip, 

 flowers buff then purple, pods glabrous, stigma sessile. 



West Tibet, near Ladak, at 15-16,500 ft. elevation, Stewart. 



Like the preceding but differing in its glabrous pods and less divided leaves. Sterna 

 numerous, slender, erect in flower, depressed and spreading in fruit. Lower leaves 

 \-l in., subcoriaceous, woolly ; upper smaller, linear, entire. Racemes terminal, sub- 

 capitate, fruiting 3 in. Sepals oblong, -^ in. Petals \ in., broadly spathulate. 

 Pods 1-li by J in., erect, secund, linear, tapering at both ends ; valves flat, herbaceous ; 

 stigma broad ; midrib and reticulated veins distinct. Seeds small, ovate-oblong, sub- 

 ■2-seriate ; cotyledons acoumbent. 



