Arabis.] x. chucifer^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 137 



**** Flowery in leafless scapes. 



8. A. nuda, Belong. Toy. Ic. {without number or description) ; leaves all 

 radical obovate-oblong entire or toothed, flowers small, pods erect glabrous. 

 Boiss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xvii. 54; H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Hoc. v. 142. 

 Arabis scapigera, Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xviL 54. Sisymbrium nudum, 

 Boiss. F. Orient, i. 214. 



Kashmir, alt. 5600-6000 ft., T. T.— Distbib. Affghanistan to Asia Minor, and 

 N. Syria. 



A Bmall annual, with slightly hairy leaves. Scapes several, 1-5 in., erect, rigid and 

 not. spreading, many-flowered, glabrous or slightly hairy at the base. Mowers yellow. 

 Sepals equal, obtuse, green, glabrous. JPetals twice as long as the sepals. Pods 

 I-I4 in. on very short thick pedicels, straight or carved, linear, much flattened, obtuse; 

 valves with a distiuct midrib and prominent veins. Seeds not margined ; cotyledons 

 aocumbent (hence an Arahis, but most closely allied to Sys. thalianum). 



8. CARDA9XXNE, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, glabrous or slightly pubescent, often flaccid herbs. 

 Leaves entire lobed or pinnate. Flowers white, pale-purple or violet, very 

 rarely yellow. &^afe equal at the base. Petals clawed. Poc? narrow-linear, 

 compressed, tapering at both ends ; valves with a distinct midrib, opening 

 elastically; septum membranous ; stigma simple or 2-lobed. Seeds &3,ttened, 

 without a border, 1-seriate; cotyledons accumbent. — Disteib. About 60 

 species, natives of the N. and S. temperate regions. 



* Leaves not deeply loled or pinnatisect. , 



1. C. violacea, Wall. Gat. 4782 ; stem stout simple erect, leaves sessile 

 amplexicaul lanceolate toothed, flowers large violet, style long. H.f. da T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 145. 



Temperate region, central Nipal, Wallich. 



Stem 2-5 ft. Leaves 3-5 in., tapering to the tip, auricles sagittate. Moviera 

 racemed, ^ in. broad. Fods | in., on thickened pedicels, erect, tapering at both 

 ends ; style ^ in. 



2. C. circaeoides, H.f. & T. J (mm. Linn. Soc. v. 144; annual, almost 

 glabrous, slender, leaves petioled cordate obtuse, flowers small white, style 

 short. 



Moist woods in the interior of Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. E. 



Stem 6-12 in., simple or slightly branched. Leaves thin, radical on much longer 

 stalks than the cauline, sinuate-toothed, lower lobes rounded. Macemes few-flowered.- 

 Fods 1 in., on shprt pedicels, erect or spreading, narrow-linear ; stigma broad. 



** Eadical leaves trifoliolate. 



3. C. africana, Linn. ; perennial, leaflets petioled crenate-serrate, flowers 

 dull white, funicles not winged. H. f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 144. C. 

 borbonica, Pers.; DC. I.e.; Thwaites Enum. 399: W. & A. Prodr. 20; 

 Wight Lc t. 941. C. anteniquana, B(J. I.e. C. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4781. 



• Mountain woods of the Westeeij PsNiHsnLA and CErLON.— Dibtkib. S. temp, and 

 tropical Africa ; Bourbon. 



Stem 6-24 in., decumbent or erect, sparsely hispid or glabrous. Leames long- 

 petioled ; leaflets broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, the lateral oblique at the base. Racentes 

 few-flowered. Flowers small. Pods 1^ in., erect or ascending, tapering at both ends ; 

 pedicels ^| in. 



