14 CEUCIFERJ!. 



length tMckened.- Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica, by roadsides in the mountains (Macf.); 

 [introduced from Europe]. 



4. SINAPIS, i. 



Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Silique linear, beaked, sessile : valves convex, 5-1- 

 nerved. Seeds uniserial. Cotyledom conduplicate. 



4. S. brassicata, L. Annual, glabrous ; leaves dissected at the base or not divided, den- 

 tate, inferior obovate, superior lanceolate; petals yellow : claws equalling the spreading calyx; 

 siliques cyUndrioal, torolose, one-nerved and with prominent veins, shortly beaked, suberect 

 upon the spreading pedicel: beak styliform, without a seed. — Dese. M. 6. t. 430; Willd. 

 Hort. Berol. t. 14 : the form with the leaves not divided.— S. lanceolata, DC. S. integri- 

 folia, W. S. nigra, Sesc. {exclus. descr.). Raphanus lanceolatus, W. {mm Macf.). — Hab. 

 Caribbean Islands; [Guadeloupe I, S. Croix, tropical Asia]. — S.Juncea, L. (Jacg. Et. Tind^ 

 t. 171), is perhaps only a form of this, with lyrate leaves. 



Tkibe II. ANGTJSTISEPTM. — Iruit (silicle) rounded: dissepiment linear. 

 5*. CAPSBLLA, Vent. 



Petals entire. Silicle laterally compressed, many-seeded: Valves keeled, not winged. 



Cotyledons incumbent. 



Z' 5*. C. Bursa-pastoris, Moh. Annual; leaves usually mncinate, superior sagittate, 



clasping, lanceolate ; silicles triangnlar-obcordate. Petals white. — Hab. Naturalized in Ja- 



' maica, in the mountain plantations ; [introduced from the Old World, now diffused through 



' both the temperate zones, and scattered in the tropical ones of aU the continents]. 



6. LEPIDIUM, L. 



Petals entire (or wanting). Silicle laterally compressed ; valves keeled, usually winged ; 



cells one-seeded. — Flowers white. 

 y 6. Ii. virginicum, L. Annual, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, usually serrate ; racemes 



elongated ; flowers diandrous ; silicles nearly orbicular, wingless, emarginate ; cotyledons 



accumhent. — Desc. PI. 1. t. 41. — L. Iberis, Desc. {not L.). — Hab. Jamaica!, Al.; hn- 



%i%\is.\, Nichols. ; Tobago; [United States]. 

 / 7*. Ii. sativum, L. Annual, glabrous ; inferior leaves pinnatisect ; racemes elongated ; 



flowers tetradynamous ; silicles nearly orbicular, toinffed and emarginate at the top ; seeds 



oblong; cotyledons incumient. — Desc. Fl. 1. 1. 42. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica (Macf.); 



[introduced from the Levant]. 



7. SENEBIERA, Pair. 



Petals entire (or wanting). Silicles didymous : cells indehiscent, one-seeded. Cotyledons 

 incumbent, and bent transversely. — Kacemes opposite to the leaves. 



8. S. pinuatifida, i)(7. Diffuse; leaves pinnatisect ; silicles shorter than the pedicel, 

 emarginate at the top and at the base,[retioulate-rngose. — Hab. Jamaica {Macf^, common in 



. the mountains ; [both the temperate zones of America ; natiualized in western Europe, in 

 / (Australia, etc.]. 



Tmbe III. LOMENTACEM — Fruit separating transversely into one-celled, 

 one-seeded joints, 



8. CAKILE, Toumef. 



Sepals erect, the lateral ones gibbous at the base. Fhiit two-jointed: seed of the upper 

 cell (the beak) erect, of the lower one pendulous. Cotyledons accumbent (sometimes ob- 

 liquely). 



9. C. secLualis, VHir. Leaves lanceolate, subentire ; flowers whitish ; upper joint of 

 the fruit lanceolate-ensiform, tapering into the style, three times the length of the lower 

 cuneate one, and equalling it in breadth. — Desc. Fl. 1. 1. 43 ; Tuss, Fl. 1. t. 17.— Bunias 

 Cakile, Deae. Catilc cuhensis, Kth. C. segyptiaca, Tkss. 0. maritima, Rich. Cui. Ra- 



