164 X. CKUCiFERiE. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) [Tanscheria. 



base. Fods short, boat-shaped, concave above, eonvex below, centre 

 crustaceous, indehisceut, 1-celled with a broad wing folded inwards at the 

 edges and prolonged into a short triangular style. Seed solatajy, pendulous 

 from the top of the cell, cotyledons incumbent. 



1. T. lasiocarpa, DG. Frodr. i. 210. T. desertorum, Led. Ic. PI. Fl. 

 Ross. t. 139 ; Royle III. 72, t. 17 ; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. fv. 1.78. 



Kdnawce in the Western Himalaya and Westebn Tibet, alt. 10-13,000 ft. — ^Dis- 

 TEiB. Soongaria and the Caspian region. 



Stem 1 ft., seldom branching from below. Leaves ovate-oblong, radical Bubpetioled, 

 cauline with cordate anriolee. Flowers in a loose corymbose panicle ; pedicels re- 

 curved in fruit. Pods J ia ., thickly glandular-hairy. — All the Tibetan and Himalayan 

 specimens have pubescent pods and hence belong to var. lasiocarpa; plants with 

 glabrous pods occur ,in Soongaria and the Caspian region, apparently associated with 

 var. lasiocarpa. 



■m. DiPTEXtVGXXI'nX, Dene. 



A virgate rigid touch branched shrub with the habit of a Cleome, the 

 branches ending in few-flowered racemes. Leaves small, ovate-oblong, 

 entire. Flowers smstH, few, an bracteate iracemes. ^^oZs short, .equal at 

 the .base. Stamens free ; filaments entire, tl-celled, ellipsoid, compressed 

 laterally, indehiscent, coriaceous, surrounded by a .menlbranous wing. 

 Seed solitary, erect, winged ; cotyledons concave, incumbent. 



1. D. ^laifpuxn, Becqdme in Ann. Sc. Wat. Ser. 2, iv. 67 ; E.f.& T. 

 in Journ. Lirm.SQC. y. 179 ; £ois^. Fl. Orient, i. 417. Isatis spartioides, 

 Edgew. mss. 



In the Punjab, n^ar-Mooltan, Edgeworth. — ^Distrib. Arabia, N.E. Africa. 



A shrub, 6-12 in..„.^5fith .many divaricate branches, glabrons, or the leaves and stem 

 slightly rough with mscid glands. Leaves few, J-J in. long, shortly petioled. Flowers 

 subsessile; bracts scaly, -J^j- in. Porfs J in., transversely wrinkled, drooping. ,, 



^7. NESXiIA, Desv. 



An annual herb, with branched pubescence. Leaves entire or sinuate- 

 toothed, cauliue sagittate. Flowers small, yellow, in ebractea*e panicled 

 racemes. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals entire. Pods shortly 

 stalked, subglobose, slightly flattened, coriaceous, indehiscent. Seed soli- 

 tary ; cotyledons incumbent. 



1. K. paniculata, Desv. Journ. ui. 162; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 179 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 371. ' 



In the PnNjAB-HiMALATA, from Hazara to the Beas, Stewart; Kashmir, alt. 

 5-6000 ft. — DiSTEiB. In fields ; Persia, Western Asia, temperate Europe. 



Stem I-I4 ft., erect, rather slender, simple below. Radical leaves 1-2 in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, cauline shorter, auricles sagittate. Flowers numerous, on long slender 

 spreading glabrous pedicels. Fods a little broader than long, reticulated, glabrous ; 

 style slender, sharp. 



ss. Eu.qupivm, Br. 



Branchipg, leafy^ pgid annuls, yriti). forked or branched pubescence. 

 Leaves entire coarsely toothed or pinnatifid. floyiers small, white, in terminal 

 or lateral, ebracteate racemes. S^peds spreading, equal at the base. Pods 

 s.maUj ,erectj, subsessile^ subglfll)pge, crpwngd by an oblique subulate beak, 



