.] X. CRUCIFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 165 



hard and crustaceous, indehiacent, rarely dehiscent, 2-celled ; septum thick. 

 Seeds 2, ohlong, pendulous; cotyledons accumbent or obliquely incumbent— ^ 

 DiSTEffi. Species 2, central and western Asia. 



I.E. syriacum, H. Br. in Bort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 74 ;3.f.<So T. in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. v. 179 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 386 ; Griff. Itin. Notes 272, No. 631. 



Kashmie, alt. 5-6000 ft., WinUrbottom; Punjab, at Peshawur, Stewart. — Distbib. 

 Westwards to central Europe. 



Diffuse, much branched, 4-12 in. high, with 2-3-furcate hairs or glabrous ; branches 

 stout, rigid when old. Leaves 1-4 in., petioled, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers distantly 

 Bubspioate ; pedicels very short, much thickened in fruit. JPods J- in. long, pitted, 

 haiiy ; beak (style) atout, obliquely reflexed, muoronate. 



39. CRADIBE, Tourn. 



Stont herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or pilose. Leaves pinnate lyrate or 

 toothed. Raeemes elongate, ebracteate, usually panicled. Flowers conspi- 

 cuous, white. Sepals spreading, equal at the base : filaments of the longer 

 stamens frequently toothed at the top. Pods indehiscent, articulate, the 

 upper joint globose, 1-ceUed, 1-seeded ; lower seedless forming a pedicel to 

 the upper joint. Seed globose, pendulous from the incurved tip of the 

 funicle, which rises from the base of the cell ; cotyledons conduplicate. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species about 20, European and temp. Asiatic. 



1. C. cordifolia, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. iii. 267 ; H.f. & T. in 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 180 ; Boiss. Fl. Oriemt. i. 405. C. Kotschyana, Boiss. 

 Orient, i 406. 



Khnawce in the Western Himalaya, and in Western Tibet, alt. 10-14,000 ft.— ' 

 DiSTEiB. Westward to Persia and the Caucasus. , 



A tall stout bristly hairy perennial. Stem striated. Rootstoeh thick. Badical leaves 

 on stout petioles, 1-2 in., petiole striated and dilated at the base, rounded aod cordate, 

 laciniate and variously toothed ; cauline on shorter petioles, ovate elliptic or rhomboid, 

 toothed or lobed. Bacemes loosely panicled. Pods globose, upper part pisiform, 

 crustaceous. — Some Tibetan specimens have broader petals and shorter stamens (with 

 the filaments of the long stamens almost simple) than are found in the Afigban and 

 Caucasian ; but these plants agree in all other respects. Stocks says the root is eaten 

 in Beluchistan. 



40. PBVSOXtHVNCUS, Hook. 



A glabrous, glaucous, leafy undershrub. Leaves fleshy, lower petioled, 

 upper auricled. Flowers large, white, in elongated distantly flowered, 

 ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, equal at the base. Pods indehiscent 

 2-jointed, the lower joint longitudinally 2-celled, seedless, with small 

 spurious valves ; upper joint large, ovoid, with a' long conical beak (style) 

 2-celled, with tMck lacunose walls ; cells a-4-seeded ; septum thin ; stigma 

 suboapitatei . Seeds flattened, pendulous from the side of the cells ; coty- 

 ledons conduplicate. ' 



1. P. brahvicus. Book. Ic. PI. t. 821 and 822, Boiss. Fl. Oriemt. i. 403 

 (with syn.). P. chamserapistrum, Boiss. I.e. 



Punjab, in the Salt Bange, Ficori/.— Disteib. Westwards to Southern Persia. 



An erect perepnial, about 2, ft. high. Leaves 1-4 in., ovate-oblong, entire- or repand- 

 toothed, tip rounded or acute, lower petioled ; cauline narrowed at the base, slightly 

 decurrent and auricled, uppermost linear-lanceolate. Pedicels erect, i in., a little 

 thickened at the top. Pede ^-% in. 



