134 X. CEUCIFERJ3. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Nasturtium. 



3. N. indlcum, DC. Syst. Yeg. ii. 199 ; erect, radical leaves deeply pin- 

 natifid, flowers bracteate or ebracteate yellow, pods long narrow. U.f,& 

 T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 1.38. N. madagascariense, W. & A. Prodr. 19; 

 Wight III. t. 13. N. heterophyllum, Blume Bijd. 50. Hinapis divaricata, 

 Boxb. M. Ind. iii. 123. 



Common in damp places throughout India from Ceylon ta Mishmi and Kashmik.— 

 DiaTKiB. Malayan Archipelago ; Philippines, China, Japan, 



A rough hairy or sometimes glabrous annual. .Stem 6-12 in., erect, striated, 

 branching from near the base. Lower leaves petioled, rarely entire, lobes generally 

 toothed ; upper lyrate, frequently with small auricles. Racerms long, many -flowered. 

 JFlowers small. FetaU equalling the sepals. Pods cylindric J-f in., spreading or 

 ascending.. Seeds very numerous, small, rugose, 2-seriate. — Some of the states of this 

 variable plant closely resemble N.palustre, but have longer and less turgid pods. 



Vak. benghalense ; DC. Syst. ii. 198 {Sp.); flowers bracteate, bracts sessile leaf-like 

 shorter than the pedicels linear-lanceolate variously toothed or entire. B-f. & T. in 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 139. — Eastern Bengal, Sikkim, and the Hooghly ; Assam and 

 Silhet to Chittagong, Tenasserim. — (China.) 



4. N. montanuin, Wall. Gat. 4778 {partly) ; radical leaves sinuate-pin- 

 natifid, flowers bracteate yellow, pods short turgid. K.f.&T. Joum. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 139. Sinapis pusOla, Bood). Fl. Ind. iii. 125. 



Subtropical Himalaya from Sikkim to the Phhjab, ascending to 7000 ft. ; the 

 Khasia hills and Bibma. — Distbib. Java, China, Japan. 



An annual much resembling N. indicwn, but less robust, with larger smoother less 

 divided leaves. Fods 1-14 ^^'i slender, not turgid. 



6. BARBAREA, £r. 



Perennial or biennial branched leafy herbs with angled stems and lyrately 

 pinuatifid leaves. Flowers yeUow. Sepals suberect, subequal at the base. 

 Petals with a broad claw. Pod long, linear, compressed, 4-angled, many- 

 seeded; valves hard, stout; usually strongly keeled. A'eecfe small, 1-seriate, 

 ovoid, without a margin; cotyledons accumbent. — Disteib. Species about 

 20, chiefly European. 



1. B. vulgaris, Br. Eort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 109; perennial, usually 

 branched, pods strongly keeled. DO. Prodr. L 140 ; H.f. & T. in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. v. 139. 



Temperate and subalpine Himalaya and W. Tibet ; alt. 6-10,000 ft. — ^Distbib. 

 Europe, W. Asia, N. and S. Africa, Australia. 



Stiff, erect, smooth. Stems 9-18 in., furrowed, green, leafy. Lower leaves petioled, 

 lyrate-pinnate, terminal lobe large, subrotund ; upper leaves sessile, obovate, entire 

 sinuate or pinnatifid at the base, lowest lobes auricled stem-clasping. Pods |-14 in., 

 numerous in a crowded raceme, narrow-linear, rigid; pedicels erect or spreading; 

 style about -^ in., stout, straight. 



Vak. 1. tawrica, DO.' Syst. ii. 207 (8p.); tipper leaves ovate entire or toothed, 

 pedicels of the ripe pods almost horizontal, pods erect stout rigid a little curved, 

 style rather long and slender. Griff. Itin. Notes 306 n. 1047-1503. B. Iberioa, DO. l.c. 

 208 ; B. arcuata, Seixilienb. le. Fl. Germ. t. 48 ; B. prseoox. Pries. Nov. 206, in Eerl. 

 Kew. [not of oiAera).— Kashmir and W. Tibet, alt. 6-10,000 ft. (Affghanistan, W. Asia, 

 and throughout Europe.) — The fully ripe pods of Affghan specimens vary from |-14 in. 



Vae. 2. Simula, Presl. delic.Prag. (Sp.\ ; less robust, lower leaves lyrate, terminal 

 lobes ovate, lateral often wanting, upper leaves pinnate, segments linear, pedicels less 

 spreading, pods straight narrow compressed subtorulose, style short almost as broad as 

 the pod.— B. intermedia, Boreau Fhr. Cent. France, ii. 40— W. Tibet and Temperate 

 Himalaya, alt. 6-17,000 ft. ; Nilghiri Mts. (Asia Minor, S. Europe.) 



