148 X. CRUCiFEB^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Sisymbrmm. 



stellate hairs. Stem erect,-witli numerous spreading or ascending stiff branches. _ Leaves 

 radical petioled ; upper clasping the stem by sagittate auricles. Pods 1-14 in. long, 

 terete, straight ; pedicels short, stout, spreading, each with a leaf-like bract at the 

 base ; valves striate. 



3. S. foliosum, E.f. & T. inJourn. Linn.Soc. v. 160; sparsely hairy, 

 leaves broad toothed, flowers racemed glabrous, pods slender curved gla- 

 brous much compressed. 



Kashmik, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson. 



A suberect or decumbent herbaceous much branched annual, with scattered stellate 

 hairs, 6-12 in. high. Badlcal leaves soon withering, spalhulate, shortly petioled; 

 cauline larger, 1-24 ™. long, oblong or obovate, sessile, auricles long sagittate stem- 

 clasping, coarsely toothed. Flowers small, white, ebracteate ; pedicels J in., slender, 

 -usually spreading, sometimes ascending or deflexed. Puds 1 \ in., in long racemes, 

 spreading, ascending or the lower sometimes deflexed, straight or carved, with a few 

 stellate hairs; valves thin, flattened, striate. 



** Leaves not pinnatifid ; cauline not sagittate or aurided. 



4. S. Tbalianum, Oay <fc Monn. in Gavd. Fl. Helv. iv. 348 ; annual, 

 radical leaVes petioled obovate, flowers small white, pedicels very slender, 

 pods very slender suberect curved glabrous compressed, seeds flattened. 

 jBoiss. Fl. Orient, i. 214 \ H. f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 163. Arabis 

 Thaliana, Linn. ; DC. Frodr. i. 144. Conringia Thaliana, lieich. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 60, f . 4380. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan to Kashmir, and in Western Tibet; alt. 

 5-10,000 ft. ; Punjab, Steioart. — Disteib. Temp. Europe, Asia, Abyssinia. 



An erect, slender, branching annual, 4-12 in. high, slightly hispid with scattered 

 spreading simple and forked hairs or glabrous. Leaves 1-3 in., toothed or entire; 

 cauline few, remote, sessile, generally entire. Bacemes slender, elongate ; pedicels J-4 

 in., spreading or ascending. Pods J-1 in., narrow linear ; valves convex, 1-nerved ; style 

 .short. Seeds very small ; cotyledons obliquely incumbent. 



5. S. lasiocarpum, E.f. dc T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 163 ; annual, slen- 

 der, erect, hispidly pubescent, leaves small radical obovate-spathulate, 

 flowers lilac, pedicels short, pods short straight terete densely pubescent. 

 Griffith, Itin. Notes 188, No. 991. 



Lammoo and Panya in Bhotan, Griffith. 



Simple, rigid, 9-18 in., hoary and pubescent with mixed simple and stellate hairs. 

 Radical leaves J-1 in. long, few, shortly petioled, sinuate-toothed ; cauline small, sessile, 

 obovate. Flowers sm&\\. /S?paZs pubescent, i^orf* | in., erect ; valves convex ; nerve- 

 Jess ; style very short. 



6. S. rupestre, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 33 ; annual, erect, 

 branched, hoary, radical leaves linear-oblong sinuate-toothed, cauline 

 sometimes cordate at the base, flowers shortly pedicelled, pods subterete 

 glabrous or puberulous, slender, ff. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 162. 



In the dry region of the Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 8-14,000 

 ft. ; Piti in Westers Tibet, Thomson. 



Stem 6-18 in., stiff, branching ; hairs forked, with a few scattered stellate ones. 

 Radical leaves shortly petioled, J-1 in. ; cauline sessile, entire or toothed. Racemes 

 few-flowered, bracleate throughout or towards the base ; friiiting elongate, lax. Flowers 

 .purplB.pr white. SepaU pubescent; pedicels jV-J in., puberulous. Pods lJ-11 in,, 

 erect or spreading, compressed ; valves with an indistinct central vein. 



7. S. humile, G. A. Mey. in Led. Fl. Alt. iii. 137; perennial, dwarf, 

 lioary, diffuse, radical leaves oblong, cauline petioled, flowers shortly pedi- 



