.Bfossica.] X. crucifer^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 157 



An erect, branching, hispid or glabrate annual, 1 ft. high. Radical leaves petioled, 

 crowded, spreading on the ground, hispid with white hairs, lobes toothed ; canline 

 entire or pinnatifid. Pods 2J in , erect, glabrous, linear, compressed, tovulose, beak 

 I in., linear, slightly tapering, obtuse usually 1-seeded ; valves with a central and many 

 distant lateral nerves. Seeds compressed. 



Sect. IV. Ceratosinapls. &paZ« spreading. Pocfe slightly compressed, 

 beak subulate usually seedless ; valves 3-ribbed. *i>'ee(fs globose. 



6. B. juncea, H.f. <Ss T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 170 ; erect, glabrous, 

 lower leaves oblong-lanceolate toothed, upper narrow, pods suberect 

 torulose, beak long seedless, lateral nerves flexuous. B. Willdenovii, Boiss. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1842, p. 88. Sinapis juncea, Linn. S. integrifolia, WiUd. 

 S. ramosa, rugosa and cuneifolia, Eoab. Fl. Ind. iii. 119-124. 



Cultivated in India abundantly. — Distkib. Cult, westward to Egypt, and eastward 

 to China. ■ 



A tall erect branching annual, rarely glaucous, or hispid (at the base only). Lower 

 leaves petioled, sometimes pinnatifid ; upper lanceolate, toothed, subsessile. Flowers 

 bright yellow. Pods J in., linear-lanceolate; beak straight, flattened, 4 in.; valves 

 with a prominent midrib. Seeds small, dark, rugose. 



7. B. alba, E.f. & T. ; stem hispid, leaves pubescent pinnatisect, upper 

 segments confluent, pods spreading cylindric torulose usually hirsute, beak 

 very long, decurrent along the pod, 1-seeded. B. foliosa, WUld. Enum. 688. 

 Sinapis alba, Linn. 



Cultivated fields at Ferozepore in the Puhjab, Thomson. — ^Distkib. From Syria 

 eastward throughout S. Europe. 



An erect annual, 2 it. high, with a hispid or rarely glabrous stem. Leaves all 

 petioled, usually hispid ; segments ovate, toothed op lobulate. Pods about 1 in., 

 stalked, spreading, cylindric, beak half as long, flattened, sometimes 2-seeded, valves 

 and base of the beak white with hispid hairs. 



Sinapis patens, Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 124, is a Nastwrtium. 



25. DXFI.OTAXXS, DC. 



Annual or biennial branching herbs. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers yellow 

 ■pink or purple. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Fods elongate, linear, 

 compressed, sometimes with a short 1-seeded beak ; valves 1-nerved ; style 

 generally slender, stigma simple or 2-lobed. Steeds numerous, 2-seriate, 

 oblong, compressed or subglobose ; cotyledons incumbent, conduplicate. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species about 20; Mediterranean region, Western and Central 

 Asia. 



A genus closely allied to Brassica but differing in the flat pods, biseriate seeds, often 

 pilose sepals, and pink or purple flowers. 



1. D. Griffitbil, H.f. & T. ; hispid, lower leaves oblong entire or cut, 

 flowers large, pedicels slender, style very stout. Brassica Griffithi, H. f. 

 & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 171 ; Loiss. Flor. Orient, i. 389. 



Kalebag in the Salt Eange of the Ponjab, Fleming. — Distkib. Affghanistan and 

 Beluchistan. 



A robust, erect, branched annual, 1-3 ft. high, hispid especially below with spreading 

 or reflexed hairs. Lower leaves shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-Ianceolaie, entire 

 to ithed lobed or pinnatifid ; upper lanceolate, less divided Flowers purplish or white. 

 Pods 14-2J in., erect, linear. — Dr. Anderson was disposed to unite with this D. acris, 

 Boies. I^Hesperis, Forsk) a native of Arabia and N. Africa. 



