160 X. CRUciPER^. (Hook. f. &, T. Anderson.) [lepidium. 



Cultivated throngliout India and Western Tibet. 



A glabrous erect annual, 6-18 in. Madical leaves long petioled; cauline sessile and 

 UBUally entire. Mowers small, in long racemes, white. Pods deeply notched ; pedicels 

 appressed. — Not known in an indigenous state. 



Sect. II. Cardaria. Fod transversely oblong, tip entire ; valves turgid, 

 •wingless. 



2. Zi. Draba, Linn. ; pubescent, perennial, leaves oblong repand-toothed, 

 'upper with sagittate auricles. It.f- & T. in'Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 173. L. 



chalepense, Schrenk., and L. repens, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 356. 



A weed of cultivation in tte Punjab. — Disteib. Westwards to Europe. 



Stem 1-3 ft., simple or branched, flexuous. Leaves 1-3 in., lower petioled, uppe' 

 with converging Kuriclea. FlouoerB J in. diiim., white, in branched panicles. Pod Jin., 

 deltoid with rounded angles, constricted between the papillose valves, of which one is 

 often imperfect ; pedicels spreading. 



Sect. III. Iiepidiastrum. Pod elliptic or ovoid, tip entire ; valves 

 wingless. 



3. Ii. latifoliunx, Linn. ; perennial, erect, glaucous, radical leaves 

 oblong serrate, pod ovoid. H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. ISoc. v. 173. 



Western Tibet, abundant. — Disteib. Europe, N. and W. Asia, N. Africa. 



An erect, branched, glabrous or pubescent leafy almost shrubby herb, 2-4 ft. high. 

 Radical leaves petioled, often 1 ft. long, upper caulioe sessile. Flowers minute, in short 

 densely panicled bracteate corymbs. Pods ^ in. long ; pedicels short, spreading. 



Var. platycarpa, Trautv. ; leaves rather fleshy entire indistinctly 3-nerved, flowers 

 capitate, pods orbicular slightly pilose and reticulate. — Western Tibet, Thomson, 

 Stewart. 



Sect. IV. Dlleptium. Pod elliptic or oblong, tip retnse or notched ; 

 valves keeled, wingless or winged at the tip only. 



4. Zt, ruderale, Linn. ; annual, lower leaves 2-pinnatifid, flowers 

 apetalous diandrous, pod orbicular-oblong flat, valves winged at the tip. 

 JU. f. & T. Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 175. 



Temperate Western Tibet, alt. 7-13,000 ft., 27iO»M07i..—DisTRiB.. "Westward through- 

 out Europe. 



Erect or diffuse, glabrous or pubescent. Badical leaves much divided, segments 

 narrow ; upper cauline linear, entire. Flowers minute in terminal and lateral corymbs. 

 Pod T¥-A in. ; pedicels slender, diverging. Seeds compressed. 



5. !■• capitatum, H.f. <fc T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 175 : prostrate, 

 leafy, leaves sessile upper cuneate-oblong toothed beyond the middle, 

 flowers tetrandrous in dense lateral capitate racemes, pods of L. ruderale. 

 L. incisum, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 33 {not of Ledebour). 



Temperate and subalpine Himalaya, from Sikkim to Komaon, alt. 10-14,000 ft. 



Glabrous or glandular- pubescent ; branches 6-8 in., stout. Radical leaves shortly 

 petioled, pinnatisect, lobes oblong. Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. Pods -jV in., 

 ovate, scarcely notched; valves keeled, wingless,' sessile. Seeds mucilaginous when 

 moistened. 



30. DXZ.OFHZA, Thorns. 



A dwarf glabrous fleshy herb, with a long tapering perennial root, and 

 tufted spathulate or linear, entire or toothed leaves. Flowers numerous, small, 



