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Root-1, obovate. FI. white very small and inconspicuous. 
Pouches very large and numerous erect deeply notched at top. 
Seeds brown shining beautifully ribbed and grooved spirally, 
biting in taste like Mustard with a strong flavour of Garlic. 
15. Teesdalia R. Br. 
1. T. nudicaulis (L.) R. Br. 
Pet. unequal. — Sm. E. FI. iii. 170; Koch 75; Bab. 31. 
T. Iberis DC. i. 178. Iberis nudicaulis L., Brot. i. 570 ; EB. 
t. 327. T. caulcscens Reichenb. in Holl’s List, Hook. Bot. Misc. 
N. Ser. i. 21, 41. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3, 4 ; ccc. Mountain 
pastures in moist or shady places everywhere above 2500 ft. up 
to the summits of the highest peaks. April-Aug. — A small in- 
significant stemless pi. consisting of a tuft of 1. with many short 
mostly unbranched flowering st. or scapes from the crown of 
the root, and altogether smooth or only now and then with a 
few scattered hairs. L. numerous in a rose-like tuft mostly 
pinnatilobate or lyrate, sometimes undivided and spathulate. 
Scapes several soon becoming numerous 2-4 in. long ; at first 
simple leafless, each with a terminal dense corymb of small 
white hexandrous fl., later in the season often sparingly 1- or 2- 
branched with a small leaf at each subdivision, constituting 
T. caulescens Reich., of which I have one of Herr Hoiks original 
specimens gathered u at a little spring near the top of Pico 
Ruivo ” in Aug. 1827. Pet. scarcety longer than the sep. ; the 
2 outer largest. Stam. 6 with large petal-like scales at their 
base. Pouches deeply notched spreading, about the length of 
their pedicels. 
2. T. Lepidium DC. 
Pet. equal. — DC. i. 178. T. regularis Sm. Lepidium nudi- 
caule L., Brot. i. 566. Thlaspi nudicaule Desf. ii. 67 (var. a). 
(8. intcg7'ifolia DC. 1. c. ; 1. simple entire spathulate or lan- 
ceolate. — Herb. ann. PS. reg. 1 ; rrr. Sand-rocks very sparingly 
on the right hand at the mouth of the Serra de Fora (Porto dos 
Frades) close to the beach. March, April. — A small insig- 
nificant inconspicuous pi. 3 or 4 in. high with several slender 
erect or spreading sparingly branched and leafy altogether 
smooth stems. L. principally radical, all simple or undivided 
elongato-spathulate or lanceolate and more or less acute, attenu- 
ated downwards into long stalks. Pouches orbicular notched, 
about twice the width of the narrow lanceolate septum, shorter 
than their horizontally spreading pedic. ; each cell 2- sometimes 
3-seeded. Seeds very minute tawny oval compressed but not 
bordered. Cot. accuinbent. — The few pi. observed were quite 
out of fl. and nearly burnt up when discovered early in May. 
