48 CRUCIFEEM, [Lepidium. 



Petals short or 0. Pods ovate, oblong or orbicular, laterally much 

 compressed, tips notched or entire ; valves boat-shaped, keeled or 

 winged. /S'eec?.? solitary in each cell. Cotyledons \nG\xmbQnt. 



L. sativum, Linn. Sp. PI. 644 : Roseb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 116 j Boyle III 70 ; 

 F. B. I. i, 159; A.BQ. L'Orig. PI. Cult. 68; Watt E. D.; Field ^ Gard. 

 Crops Hi, 49. Vern. Halim. (Garden Cress.) 



A glabrous erect annual, 6-18 in. high. Eadical leaves long'-petioled> 

 2-pinnatisect ; cauline sessile, often entire. Flowers in long- racemes, 

 small, white, ebracteate. Sepals short, equal at the base. Pods orbieu- 

 lar-ovate.- deeply notched, wings narrow. 



Cultivated in the plains as a cold-weather garden crop. Though often 

 met with as an escape, it is not indigenous in India. DeCandoUe re- 

 garded it as a native of Persia, and to have spread thence into India. 

 The seeds are used medicinally, and the leaves are eaten raw. 



11. RAPHANUS, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 166. 



Coarse rough or glabrous annuals or biennials. Leaves lyrate. 

 Flowers large, in long ebracteate racemes. Sepals erect, lateral 

 saccate at the base. Pods indehiscent, elongate, coriaceous, con- 

 stricted or continuous within, or filled with pith separating the seeds. 

 Seeds pendulous, globose ; cotyledons conduplicate, — Species about 6f 

 natives of Europe and Temp. Asia. 



R, sativus, Linn. Sp. PI. 669; Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 126. F. B. I. i, 



166 ; F. 4- O. Crops, N. W. Prov. ^ Oudh, Hi, 14, t. xciv ; WaU E. D.; A.DC. 

 L'Orig. PI. Cult. 23. Vern. Muli. (Radish.) 



Boot fleshy, variable in size and form. Lea ues roughly pilose. Flowers 

 white, or lilac with purple veins. Pods terete. 



Largely cultivated in the plains during the cold season, also on the 

 Himalaya. The special form, as grown in native gardens, is remarkable 

 for the extraordinary size of the so-called roots attaining sometimes, as 

 Eoxburgh mentions, to thatiof a man's leg. According to DeCandoUe 

 and others the English radish is believed to have originated from 

 B. Rap /lamstntm, L., which is wild in Europe. The Indian plant, in 

 regard to its almost tropical habit, may, as Dr. Watt suggests, have 

 come into India from the direction of China and Japan, in which coun- 

 tries the radish has been cultivated for many centuries. 



IX.— CAPPARIDE-ai. 



He BBS shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves simple or pal- 

 mately 3-9-foliolate. Stipules 2 or 0, sometimes spinescent. Lnflor- 

 escence indefinite. Flowers regular or irregular, iisually 2'sexual. 



