144 X. CBUCIFERJE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Draia, 



Vah. 1. Thomsonii, H. f. & T. I.e.; leaves laxly or scarcely tufted hoary and tomen- 

 toBB, pods linear-lanceolate not twisted, style short and stout. — Zanskar, Thomson. 



Vas. 2. aikUmensis, H. f. & T. I.e.; leaves clcsely tufted except in very luxuriant 

 young shoots very woolly, pods long linear-lanceolate or short and elliptic twisted, style 

 long slender.— Sikkim at 16,000 ft., H.f. 



Sect. IV. Drabella. Annual. Scapes or Uems leafy. Flowers white or 

 yellow. 



9. D. muralis, Linn.; stellately hispid, stems filiform flexuous, cauline 

 leaves broad elliptic-ovate coarsely toothed, petals white minute,' fruiting 

 racemes very long, pods horizontal oblong or elliptic on long capillary 

 spreading pedicels. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 302. 



Kashmir, alt. 5600 ft. — Uistkib. Asia Minor, N. Africa, Europe. 



An erect, simple or branched very slender annual ; rather rough with short simple or 

 forked hairs. Madical leaves i-^^ in., few, rosulate, obovate, entire or toothed ; cauline 

 few sessile, auricled or not. Flowers in a short raceme. Petals small, narrow, entire, 

 ■white. Pods racemed, J-^ in., quite flat, glabrous or scaberulous, stigma subsessile. 

 Seeds about 12. 



10. !>• ellipsoidea, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 153 ; stems 

 flexuous prostrate short interlaced, leaves toothed, flowers minute white, 

 fruiting racemes very short, flowers minute white, pods elliptic-oblong very 

 flat obtuse, stigma sessile. 



SiKKiM-HiMALATA, a Weed in radish fields, alt. 15-16,000 ft., H.f. 



Much depressed, hairy, leafy. Leaoes J-l in., linear- oblong. Pods racemed, J-^in. 

 equalling or shorter than their curved pedicels, flat, stellately pubescent; style 0. — 

 Differs remarkably from D. muralis in its habili, flexuous branches, and short fruiting 

 racemes. 



11. D. linearis, Boiss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xvii. 167; Fl. Orient,. 

 i. 203 ; stem simple erect, leaves entire or nearly so, flowers rather large 

 white, fruiting racemes long, pods erect linear. D, stenocarpa, H. f. & T, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 153. 



Das Kirim in temperate Western Tibet, Winterloltom. — Distrib. Mountains of 

 Persia. 



Stem 6-12 in., scaberulous. Badieal leaves rosulate, linear-oblong or obovate, thickly 

 clothed with forked hairs ; cauline 2-5. Petals narrow-cuneate, entire. Puds J-| in., 

 in long racemes, on slender smooth ascending pedicels, tapering at both ends, straight ; 

 stigma sessile. Seeds many. — ^Near S. muralis but stiffer, with much longer and 

 racemed pods. 



12. D. gracillima, S.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 153; hoary, scapes 

 or stems many weak ascending, leaves subentire, flowers small yellow, ra- 

 cemes long, pods linear erect. 



Temperate Sikkim-Himalaya, alt. 10-13,000 ft., S.f, 



Stems 4-12 in. Badieal leaves spreading, spathulate ; cauline few, near the base, 

 sessile, ovate. /Sfcopes numerous, filiform, flexuous. Pods { in., erect, tapering at both 

 ends, compressed, straight or curved, glabrous ; racemes occupying almost the whole 

 length of the stem; pedicels J in., filiform, spreading or deflexed, the lowest often twice 

 the length of the uppermost. Seeds numerous. 



14. EROFKXZ.A, DC. 



Small, delicate annuals, with entire spreading r'oot-leaves. Flowers usually 

 small, white, on slender scapes. Sepals erect, equal at the base. Petcis 



