140 X. CRrciPER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Notoeeras. 



10. NOTOCERAS, Br. 



A small, stiif, depressed, branched, hoary herb, with bipartite adpressed 

 pubescence. Flowers'-white, in leaf-opposed racemes, pepals equal at tne 

 base. Petals small, linear-oblong. Porfs- rigid, almost indehiscent, linear- 

 oblong, terete : valves with a prominent keel prolonged at the tip into a norn ; 

 internally pitted opposite the seeds; style short; stigma capitate. Heeds 

 1-seriate, small, compressed, wingless ; cotyledons accumbent. 



1. N. Canarlense, Br. in HoH. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 117 ; Griff. Itin.Not. 

 230, n. 225 \ H. f.& T. J own. Linn. Soc. iv. 147. N. hispanicum, BL. ; 

 Beless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 17. 



Fields and sandy places in the PnNJAB, Vieary, &o.— Disteib. Westward to the 

 Canary Islands. 



IStems 6-8 in., spreading and branching from the hase. Leaves linear-oblong, entire. 

 Bacemee short, many-flowered. Segals covered with adpressed hairs. Pods i m., sub- 

 sessile, erect, hoary. Seeds 4-8. 



11. TARSETXA, Desv. 



■ Hoary or tomentose much branched twiggy undershrubs or herbs. Leaves 

 small, linear-oblong, entire. Flowers white pink or yellow, spiked or ra- 

 cemed. Sepals erect, connivent, lateral saccate at the base. Petals with long 

 claws. Pods sessile, linear or elliptic, much flattened ; valves convex, plane 

 or with a midrib; septum membranous. Seeds 1-2-seriate, suborbicular, 

 broadly winged ; cotyledons accumbent. — Disteib. About 20 species, nar 

 tives of S. Europe, W. Asia, and N. Africa. 



1. P. Jacquemontii, H.f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 148 ; flowers 

 large, buds elliptic, sepals acute, pods narrow Unear. Griff. Itin. Notes, 218, 

 n. 105. 



Sandy places in the PnNJAB and Sindh. — Disteib. Aifghanistan and Beluchistan. 



An erect, rather rigid, hoary perennial, covered with closely adpressed hairs attached 

 at their middle. Stems 12-18 in., branches virgate. Leaves \-\ in., linear-oblong or 

 linear. /Se^afe strigose. Petals half as long again as the sepals. PotZs 1^-2 by J-J in., 

 compressed ; valves flat, nerveless or faintly 1-nerved ; stigma short, suberect. Seeds 

 2-seriate. — It is impossible to determine from Burman's figure whether this is the 

 Arahis heleophila, DC. 



2. P. Kaxniltonii, Royle III. 71 ; flowers small, buds small subglobose, 

 sepals obtuse. H.f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 148. F. linearis, Decaime in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xvii. 150 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 808. Cheiranthus Farsetia, 

 Wall. Gat. 4081. Arabis incanescens, Munro, Plants of Agra, 6. 



Upper GiNeETic plain and the Punjab, from Agra Westwards. — Disteib. Affgha- 

 nistan, Arabia, Algeria. 



More rigid and woody than F. Jacquemontii, covered with denser and finer closely 

 adpressed pubescence ; branches long, erect, virgate. Leaves linear, very narrow. 

 Flowers in long spicate racemes. Sepals strigose, margins scarious. Petals obovate, a 

 little longer than the sepals, pink. Pod 4-1. in. by -^ in., linear ; valves almost nerveless; 

 septum transparent ; style slender. Seeds l-seriate. — Closely allied to i**. Zong'isiKgMO, 

 Dene., of Egypt and Arabia, but has smaller flowers and shorter pods. F. linearis, 

 Dene., is certainly identical with the Indian plant although the Algerian specimens 

 have a slightly longer style, and a more 2-lobed stigma. 



3. P. eeg-yptiaca, Turr. diss. Pars, i, t. 1, ex DG. Syst. ii. 287 ; flowers 

 ' large, buds cylindric, sepals obtuse, pod eUiptic-oblong. H. f. & T, Joum,. 



