138 X. CHUciFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Cardamirm. 



4. C. trifollolata, H. f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soe. v.. 145 ; succulent 

 leaflets subsessile 3-lobed, flowers pale lilac, funicles not winged. Griff. 

 It. Notes 121, No. 259. 



Mossy streams in the forests of Bhotan, alt. 5500 ft., Griffith. 



A small fleshy annual; rootslock short, creeping; steins 4^5 in., simple erect. 

 Badical leaves on long very slender petioles, leaflets small, rounded, sparsely hairy 

 ahove, glabrous beneath, lobes obtusely pointed; cauline few, shortly petioled, some- 

 times simple. Baeemes subcorymbosit, few-flowered. Sepals small, obovate, glabrous, 

 margin membranous. Fetals I in. long, obovate, scarcely clawed. 



*** Radical leaves {or all) pinnatisect. 



5. C. subumbellata, Hook mss. ; perennial, young parts with spread- 

 ing hairs, leaflets petioled irregularly lobed and crenate, flowers small, yd- 

 lowish-white, pods irregularly corymbose narrow lanceolate acute few- 

 seeded. C. hirsuta var. subumbellata, Dalzell in Hook. Xew Joum. Bat. 

 1852, 294. C. nilagirica, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohenack. No. 1493. 



Shaded woods in the Cohcan, Malabak, and CEYLOif. 



Slender, difiuse, very like C. hirsuta, var. sylvatica, but young parts laxly strigose 

 with spreading hairs, inflorescence corymbose, flowers more yellow, and pods broader. 

 Stem 3-10 in., branching from the roots. Leaflets 3-6 by J-IJ in. Pods f-1 in; 

 sometimes solitary and axillary, 6-10-seeded. Seeds broad-oblong, remote; funicle 

 dilated. 



6. C. hirsuta, Linn., var. sylvatica, Linh. (sp.) ; annual, glabrous, leaf- 

 lets petioled, petioles not auricled, flowers small white, stamens 6, pods 

 racemed erect acute or obtuse. C. hirsuta, H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Hoc. 

 V. 146 ; Wall. Cat. 4780. C. debilis, Don Prodr. 201. 



All temperate regions of India ; and a weed of the cold season in Bengal. — ^Distkib. 

 General. 



Stem suberect or decumbent, 3-12 in. Leaflets orbicular-ovate, toothed, and angled; 

 of the upper leaves narrow. Fetals narrow, erect, twice as long as the very small 

 sepals. Pods \-\ in. ; style very short, except in var. ox^carpa. 



Vae. oxycarpa (not 0. oxycarpa, Boiss.) ; difi'usely branched, pods acuminate, style 

 slender. — Hilly districts, common. 



7. C. impatlens, Linn.; annual, erect, glabrous, leaflets shortly pe- 

 tioled, petioles auricled, flowers small white ' stamens 6, pods erect. H. /. 

 & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 146 ; Griff. It. Notes 218, n. ;99. C. pectinata, 

 DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 264. 



Temperate Himalaya from Siekiji to Kashmir, alt. 5-12,000 ft. — Distrib. AfTgha- 

 nistan, temp. Europe and Asia. 



Stems stifi', 6-12 in. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets small, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 

 obtusely 3-5-lobed ; auricles of the stem-leaves sagittate. Petals linear, erect, very 

 minute, white, often 0. Pods 1 in., erect, very slender, linear, acute ; style subulate ; 

 valves smooth. 



8. C. pratensls, Linn. ; perennial, glabrous, leaflets in equidistant 

 pairs angled shortly petioled, flowers large white or lilac, pods linear erect. 

 H.f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 145. 



Hassora in Western Tibet, Winterhottom. — Disteib. N. and W. Asia, Europe, 

 Abyssinia, N. America. 



Stem 1 ft. ; rootstock sometimes bearing small fleshy tubers. Leaves pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets of the radical leaves orbicular or ovate, terminal larger ; those of the cauline leaves 

 linear-oblong, entire. Flowers corymbose when young. Petals spreading, three times 

 as long as the sepals. Pods 1 in. ; style short. 



