156 X. CHUCiFEH^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Brasdcd.'- 



Sect. I. DXelanosinapis. Sepals spreading. Fods terete or sub-tetrar 

 gonal ; valves 1-uerved ; beak slender, seedless. 



1. S. nigra, Koch.; leaves all petioled, lower lyrate, upper entire, 

 racemes naked, pods slender appressed to the stem. H. f. & T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc.Y.no. Sinapis nigra, iinn. ; Wall. Cat. 4790. S. erysimoides, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 123. 



Cultivated in various parts of India and Tibet. 



Annual, 2-3 ft. high, rigid, branched, more or less hispid. Leaves 4-8 in. Flowers 

 ■ J-4 in. diam., bright yellow. Fod \-^ in., subulate ; valves keeled, torulose ; cells 

 3-5-seeded. Seeds oblong. 



Sect. II. Eubrassica. Sep(ds erect. Pod sessile, cylindric, beak or 

 conical, seedless ; valves 1-nerved. (The Cabbage, B. oleracea, with its cul- 

 tivated forms, the Kale, Sprouts, Cole-rabi, Cauliflower and Broccoli, belong 

 to this section.) 



2. B. campestris, Linn. ; erect, lower leaves lyrate, upper auricled, 

 flowers corymbose, beak of pod flat seedless. H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 169. Sinapis brassicata, Linn. S. dichotoma and S. glauca, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii 117, 118. 



Cultivated throughout India. 



An erect, stout, simple or branched, glabrous or slightly hispid annual, 1-3 fl. high. 

 Leaves large, petioled, more or less pinnatifid, upper oblong or lanceolate. Flowers 

 large, bright yellow; pedicels J in., ascending or spreading. Pods 1^-3 in., glabrous, 

 suberect ; valves with midrib and flexuous veins. Seeds small, smooth, pale or dark. 



SuBSP. 1. CAMPESTRIS proper; root tuberous, leaves glaucous, radical hispid, upper 

 glubrouR, petals persistent till the corymb lengthens. — {Swedish Turnip.) 



SuBsp. 2. Napus, Linn, (sp.) ; root fusiform, leaves all glabrous and glaucous, petals 

 deciduous before the corymb lengthens. — {Rape, Cole seed ; yields Oolza and Carcel 

 oils. ) 



SuBSP. 3. Eapa, Linn, (sp.) ; root tuberous, lower leaves hispid not glaucous, upper 

 glaucous and glabrous, petals deciduous. — Common Turnip. 



3. B. trilocularis, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 170 ; lower leaves 

 lyrate, cauline amplexicaul auricled, pods pendulous long-beaked 3-4- 

 valved. Sinapis trilocularis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 121. 



Subtropical Central and Eastern Himalaya, Nipal, Sikkim, and Assam, in fields. 



Habit of subspecies Napus, but easily distinguished by the remarkable pendulous 3-4- 

 celled and valved pods, which are 2^-3 in. long; beak 1^ in., terete, tapering; valves 

 with midrib and flexuous lateral nerves. Seeds large, globose, smooth, pale or dark. 



4. B. quadrivalvis, H.f. ds T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 169; habit and 

 foliage of £. triloctdaris, but pods smaller, on erect short pedicels, 4-celled' 

 and valved, beak flattened. . 



Cultivated fielda of -B. campestris in the Uppek Gangetic valley : banks of the 

 Sosae, H.f. ' 



Sect. III. Brassicoides. Sepals erect. Pods sessile, beak seed-bearing ; 

 valves 1-ribbed. 



5. B. Toumefortii, Gouan ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 393 ; radical leaves 

 hispid runcinate-lyrate, cauline linear-lanceolate, flowers small pale yellow, 

 pods short coDipressed. B. Stucksii, R.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 171. 



Upper Gangetic valley ; between Ajmir and Delhi, Jacquemont; Westeen Tibet 

 (cultivated), Edgeworth. — Dibieib. Westward to Spain and Italy. 



