BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS, Unn. 



SUB-SPECIES NAPUS, Linn. (Sp.)* 



{Vide Plates XXXYII— XLa.) 



English, rape ; Vernacular, (see under each variety.) 



Natural order Cruciferce, tribe Brassicece. An erect glaucous annual 2-4 ft. high, smooth or the 

 lower parts hispid. Root fusiform. Leaves alternate, the lower ones large, pinnatifid or lyrate, 

 upper auricled. Flowers in corymbs, bright yellow ; sepals 4, the two lateral ones saccate at the 

 base. Petals 4. Stamens tetradynamous. Pods thick, 2-3-4 valved, or more slender and some- 

 what torulose. Seeds smooth or minutely rugose, yellow dark brown or reddish brown. 



Var. GLAUCA.t 



(TiJe Plate XXXVII). 



English, none ; Vernacular, sarson, sarson zard, banga sarson (Meerut, Dehra Dun, &c.) 

 pila sarson (Oudh and Rohilkhand), rara,rada and rara-sarson (Kumaun),t shwet rai (Beng.)§ 

 Sanscrit, rajika.|| 



Smooth and glaucous. Leaves amplexicaul, lower usually deeply pinnatifid and with the lobes 

 coarsely dentate or scollop-toothed, corymbs contracted. Sepals sub-erect. Pods very thick, lateraUy 

 compressed, with a broad flattened beak ^-^ their length. Seeds round, smooth, yellow or occa- 

 sionally dark or reddish brown. 



Var. TRILOCULARIS.H 



iJide Plate XXXVIII]. 



English, none ; Vernacular, the same as given to var. glauca. 



Foliage dark glaucous. Lower leaves large, deeply pinnatifid and auricled, more or less rough 

 ■with bristles ; upper linear, entire, amplexicaul. Flowers pale yellow ; sepals nearly erect. Pods 

 3-4 valved, curved, becoming pendulous as they ripen ; beak g--^ the length of the pod. Seeda 

 yellow or brown. 



The pendulous position of the pods is a striking distinction at first sight, but every 



* References :— Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 156. 



•f- Atkinson in Gaz. N.-W. P, Vol. x. 770. B, campestris, Linn, in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I.e. Sinapis glauca, Koxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 118. 



I Gaz. N.-W. P. l.c, 

 § Roxburgh l.c. 



II Piddington Index 82. 



^ B. trilocularis, H. f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc, t. 170 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. I.e. Sinapis trilocvlarii, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 121. 



