150 X. CRUCiFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Sisymhrium. 



terminal racemes. Frmting racemes elongate ; pedicels J-J in., spreading, as thick as 

 therachis. Po<Zs J in., straight or slightly curved; septum flat. Seeds \ery mmute, 

 oblong.— Boisbier remarks that the seeds are unkrown. There are numerous npe pods 

 in Griffith's specimens in the Kew Herbarium. _ The cotyledons are incumbent. 



Sect. II. Sophia. Flowers yellow, pediceUed, ebracteate. Pod cylindric 

 or flat, valves 1-nerved. 



12. S. Sophia, Zinn. ; annual, erect, glabrbus or pubescent, leaves 2-3- 

 pinnatisect, flowers small, pedicels slender. Rdch. Ic, Fl. Germ. t. 74, 

 f. 4406; E.f. & T. Journ. Unn. Soc. v. 158. 



Pdnjab, in the Salt Kange and near Peshawur ; Temperate Himalaya from Kdmaon 

 to Kashmir, ait. 5-7000 ft. ; Western Tibet, alt. 9-14,000 ft.— Distkib. Westward, 

 throughout Europe, N. Africa, and in N. and S. America. 



Stem 1-2 ft., finely tomentose and somewhat hoary, or quite glabrous ; branches 

 ascending. Leaves numerous ; segments short, linear. Flowers small, pale 5'ellow. 

 Fruiting racemes elongate, lax, terminal. Pods 1 in., spreading, or erect, on long 

 pedicels, cylindric, subcumpressed, curved, subtorulose ; midrib prominent ; stigma sub- 

 sessile. 



Sect. III. Irio. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, ebracteate. Pods terete, 

 valves 3-nerved, 



* Fruiting pedicels as hroad as the pod. 



13. S. Columnse, Jacq. PI. Aiislr. t. 323 ; annual, tall, glabrous or hairy 

 below, leaves runcinate, sepals erect, valves of pod not ribbed. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 216 ; H.f. <k T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 157. 



Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, ascending to 10,000 ft. ; Westesn 

 Tibet, alt. 9-14,000 ft. — Distrib. Westward to Central Europe. 



Stem 3 ft., stout, erect, slightly branching, subhispid with spreading or reflexed hairs, 

 or all glabrous and glaucous. Leaves sometimes almost entire ; segments toothed, 

 from ovate-oblong to lanceolate ; terminal lobe angled ; of the upper leaves hastate. 

 Flowers large, pale yellow. Stpah glabrous. Pods 3-4 in., spreading, veiy slender, 

 curved, glabrous or slightly hairy ; pedicel very stout ; valves striated, indistinctly oos- 

 tate ; style thickened, ^ in. 



14. S. pannonicum, Jacq. Coll. i. 70 ; Ic. PI. Mar. t. 123 ; annual, 

 hispid or glabrate, leaves runcinate-pinnatisect, sepals spreading, valves of 

 pod 3-nerved. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 217; H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 257. 

 B. septulatum, 1)(J. Sysi. ii. 471. 



Hassora in Western Tibet, alt. 8000 ft., Winterhottom. 



Stem rather tall, stiff, often simple below, and divaricately branched above. Leaf- 

 segments nearly all similar, toothed or entire, of the lower leaves broad, of the upper, 

 narrow-linear. Flowers large, pale yellow. Sepals glabrous, caducous. Pods 3-4 in., 

 on short very thick pedicels, spreading or ascending, straight, obtuse, glabrous ; septum 

 membranous, projecting transversely between the seeds; style subelongate, thick; 

 stigma large, 2-lobed. 



** Fruiting pedicels slender. 



15. S. Xrio, Linn. ; annual or biennial, tall, glabrous, leaves runcinate- 

 pinnatifid, segments not auricled, flowers minjite, pedicels slender, yuung 

 pods overtopping the raceme, old 3-nerved, stigma sessile. Heich. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 75, f. 4408 ; H.f. ds T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 157. S. irioides, Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 218 ; H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 157. 



In Northern India, from Kajpootana to the Punjab.— Distrib. Affghanistan and 

 westwards to the Canary Islands. 



