BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS. 



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gradation from this state to the sub-erect position may be observed. When in flower 

 this variety cannot be distinguished from flowering specimens of B. glauca and 

 quadrivalvis. A specimen with pendulous pods raised from Lucknow seed bore 2-3-4- 

 valved pods on the same plant. 



Var, QUADRIVALVIS.* 



[Fiie Plate XXXIX.] 



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



Habit and foliage of B. trilocularis, but pods shorter on sub-erect pedicels, 4-valved, but usually 

 only 1-celled owing to the absorption or non-development of the placental membrane. Seeds yellow 

 or brown. 



Var. DICHOTOMA.f 



iride Plate XL.] 



English, none ; Vernacular, kali sarson, lahsta and laita (Bhabar)| ; jariya and jadiya 

 (hills)§ ; sanchi, shurshi, sada rayee (Beng.)|l ; Sanscrit surshupa.lf 



Glaucous, 4-6 ft. high, quite smooth except at the base of the stems and the lower leaves 

 which are more or less bristly. Lower leaves about 1 ft. long, auricled, deeply pinnatifid, terminal 

 segment large, sub-triangular or rounded, sinuate ; petioles deeply channelled above ; upper leaves 

 lyrate or entire, with a cordate amplexicaul base. Panicles elongate ; pedicels spreading, or becom- 

 ing sub-erect as the pods ripen. Flowers numerous, deep yellow. Sepal sub-erect. Pods sub-cyl- 

 indrical, 2-3 in., with a long tapering beak. Seeds dark brown, smooth or minutely rugose. 



Far. TORIA.* 



IVide Plate XLa.] 



English none ; Vernacular, tori, toriya, khetiya, also dain, dain and lai (Kumaun and 

 Garhwal)tt ; Sanscrit, tuverica.H 



Whole plant quite smooth and glaucous, 2-3 ft. high. Lower leaves lyrate or pinnatifid, ter- 

 minal lobe large, sub-triangular, obovate, sinuate ; upper leaves amplexicaul, lanceolate, entire. 

 Pedicels slender, ascending. Flowers bright yellow ; sepals spreading. Pods l^-lf in., rather 

 slender, transversely compressed, more or less torulose ; beak about ^ in,, slender, pointed. Seeds 

 small, roundish or sub-compressed, reddish brown, finely rugose. A much shorter plant than the 



• References = — S. quadrivalvis, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 1G9 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind i. 156. 

 t Gaz. N.-W. P. "Vol. X. 770 ; S. dichotoma, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 117 ; Royle 111. 70. 

 X Gaz. N.-W. P. I.e. 

 § Idem. 



II Roxburgh I.e. 



«|[ Piddington Index 81. 



*• B. glauca, Royle in Gaz. N.-W. P. I.e. ; Baden-Powell Punj, Prod. 419. 



ff Atkinson in Gaz. I.e. 

 XX Piddington Index 82. 



