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Dehra Dun. Distbib.: Himalayan ranges, up to 12,000 ft., extending 

 through Afghanistan to Europe. 



3. FARSETIA, Desv.; PI. Brit. Ind. i. 140. 



Hoary or tomentose much-branched rigid undershrubs. Leaves 

 small, linear-oblong, entire. Flowers white pink or Tellow, in spicate 

 racemes. Sepals erect, connivent, lateral saccate at the base. Petals 

 with long claws. Pods sessile, linear or elliptic-oblong, much 

 flattened, valves convex. Seeds 1-2-seriate, suborbicular, broadly 

 winged ; cotyledons accumbent. 



F. Hamiltonii, Eoyle 111. \71 ; F.B.I, i, 140; Watt E.D. Arabis in- 

 canescens, Munro Hart. Agrensis 6. 



Branches long, erect. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers small. Sepal* 

 obtuse, atrigose, with scarious margins. Petals obovate, a little longer 

 than the sepals, pink, Pods^-l in. long, linear, valves almost nerveless. 

 Style slender. Seeds in one row. 



Banks of the Jumna between Delhi and Agra. Distbib. : Punjab, and: 

 westward to Afghanistan, Arabia and Algeria. Munro, who found it at 

 Agra, considered it to be an introduction. 



4, COCHLEARIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 145. 



Glabrous, often fleshy, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pinna^ 

 tifid or toothed, rarely entire. Flowers yellow, lilac or white, in 

 racemes, rarely solitary. Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals 

 entire, shortly clawed. Filaments without appendages or teeth. 

 Pods globose ovoid or oblong, valves turgid, Seeds usually 2-seriate, 

 compressed, without wings ; cotyledons accumbent. 



C. JLrworacm, L. (the common Horse-radish) is occasionally cultivated 

 in European gardens of Upper India. 



C. flava, Bii.ch.-Eam. ex Eoxh. Eort. Beng. 48 ; Boyle III. 72 ; F. B. I. \ 

 145. 

 An erect, rarely depressed, diffusely branched glabrous annual, ahout 1 



ft. in height. EooHong, fusiform. Leases 4-5 in.,, lanceolate, pinnatifidj 



lower stalked ; upper smaller and auricled ; lobes sinuate-toothed. 



Racemes numerous. FZowers small, yellow. Pods globose, smooth; 



valves without nerves. Style short, thick. Seeds many, rugose, with 



filiform funieles. 



On river banks, and in damp places. Distbib. : Eastward to Bengal, 

 and westward to the Punjab. 



