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4. Lepidium graminifolium, Linn. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



5. Lepidium piscidium, Forst. 



Lepidium piscidium, Forst. Prodr. p. 46, & MS. descr. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 75; 

 DC. Syst. 2, p. 546; Hook. & Am. Bat. Beech. Voy. p. 59. 



Hab. Coral Islands of the Pacific; widely diffused. It is also 

 mentioned as having been gathered at the Sandwich Islands, by 

 Nelson, Meyen, &c. ; but from thence we have only the nearly allied 



6. Lepidium Owahiense, Cham. & Sclilecht. 



Lepidium, Owahiense, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, 1, p. 32 ; Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 78; Walp. Eel. Meyen. p. 250. 



Hab. Coast of Oahu and Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. 



This is pretty well distinguished from the preceding species by its 

 rounded silicles (orbicular or rounded-obovate, instead of oblong- 

 obovate), with the stigma included in the notch. The leaves, also, 

 are usually of a firmer texture, the cauline ones sharply or incisely- 

 toothed ; the base of the stem is lignescent ; and the root appears to 

 be perennial. A specimen from the district of Waimea, Hawaii, with 

 more lignescent stems, has only linear or lanceolate leaves ; the lower 

 ones, however, are wanting. 



14. SENEBIEKA, Poir. 

 1. Senebiera didyma, Pers. 



Senebiera didyma, Pers. Ench. 2, p. 185 ; Desv. Jour. Bot. 3, p. 164. 

 S. pinnatifida & S. pectinata, DC. Syst. 2, p. 523, & Prodr. 1, p. 202. 

 Lepidium didymum, Linn. Mant. p. 92. 



