14:6 X. CHUCiFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Malcolvm. 



16. l!aAI.COIi]«XA, Br. 



BrancMng herbs, pubescence simple or stellate. Leaves entire or pinnar 

 tifid. Flowers in lax racemes, white or purple. Sepals erect, equal at the 

 base. Petals linear, claws long. Filaments free, the longer ones sometimes 

 United in pairs. Pods elongate, cylindric, hard and dehiscing late ; peduncle 

 usually thickened ; valves 3-nerved ; septum membranous ; stigma erect, 

 lobes often united into an acute cone or decurrent along the short style. 

 Seeds 2-seriate towards the base of the pod, oblong, not margined ; coty- 

 ledons incumbent.— DisTKiB. About 20 species, natives of W. Asia and the 

 Mediterranean region. 



* Pods linear, elongate. 



1. nx. africana, Br. Eort. Km. ed. 2, iv. 121 ; leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late toothed, flowers many small, pods straight hispid. BG. Prodr. i. 187 ; 

 Griffith liin. Notes 260, No. 513 ; H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 155; 



Fields and waste places in the Pumjab, Kashmir, and Westekn Tibet, ascendiog to 

 13,000 ft. — DisTRiB. W. Asia, Mediterranean region. 



Stout, leafy annual, I4 ft., rough with stiff forked and simple hairs ; branches many, 

 long, somewhat spreading. Leaves 1-6 in., petioled. Flowers near the ends of the 

 branches. Petals obovate-oblong, twice as long as the persistent sepals, purple or white. 

 Fruiting racemes 6-12 in. long; pedicels ^ in., erect, as thick as the pods. Pods 2-3 

 in. long, narrow, linear, Tery rough with short forked hairs; yalves prolonged into a 

 short blunt horn ; stigma short, conical, tapering to an acute point.— Varies greatly in 

 pubescence, size of the leaves, and length and thickness of the pedicels and pods. — A 

 Tery rough variety with small flowers has been distinguished as j8 stenopetala {M. 

 stencpetalq, Led.). 



2. DZ. torulosa, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 225 ; leaves narrow toothed or pin- 

 matifid, flowers small, pods torulose usually contorted or recurved. Sisym- 

 brium tornlosum, Desf. Fl. Atlant. ii. 84, t. 159 ; DC Prodr. i. 195; E. f. 

 <Ss T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 163. S. contortuplicatum, DC. Prodr. I.e. 



PuHJAB at Peshawur, Stewart. — Disteib. Westwards to Syria and N. .Africa. 



A depressed annual or biennial, with numerous spreading and ascending stiff, stout 

 branches, 6 or 8 in. long, hispid' with stiff spreading simple or forked hairs, rarely 

 glabrous. Sadical leaves 1-3 in., numerous, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; cauline shorter 

 and less divided. Flowers small, subsessile, white. Pods |-1 in., on very short 

 thick pedicels, slender straight recurved or contorted, hispid. Seeds small, oblocg, 

 l-seriate. 



** Pods long or short, sujbidaie. 



3. M. strlgrosa, Boiss. Fl, Orient, i. 224; glabrous or hispid below only, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate repand or toothed, pods 1-1| in. long. — H. /. <Ss T. 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 155. 



In the Salt range, Pdkjab, Fleming, Stewart. — Dsiteib. Afighanistan, Belucbistan, 

 Persia. 



A stout, depressed or suberect, rough, hairy annual, soon dividing into a few rather 

 rigid short branches 6-18 in. long. Radical leaves long-petioled, spreading on the 

 ground, 2 or 3 in. loug ; cauline shorter and more entire. Flowtrs numerous, sessile, 

 in racemes 2-12 in. Petals about ^ in., sometimes twisted, linear, dark purple, rarely 

 while, limb broader than the claw. Pods terete, stout, thickened at the base, tapering 

 to an obtuse point, spreading horizontally or decurved ; base with short branching and 

 long spreading forked hairs, less hispid above. Seeds sub-2-seriate at the base of th'a 

 pod, l-seriate above. 



