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5. CRUCIFERJE. 
5. Arabis L. 
* Alomatium DC. ; seeds without or with only an obscure 
slight narrow margin. Limb of pet. distinct from the 
claw, obovate spreading horizontally. 
1. A. albida Stev. 
L. somewhat sparingly but equably and strongly sinuate- 
toothed white or hoary tomentose (like the whole pi. except 
the pods) with branched starry pubescence, the lower 1. crowded 
lanceolate-oblong or subspathulate, the upper lanceolate am- 
plexicaul and slightly sagittate or cordate at the base ; pedic. 
twice or thrice, pet. twice as long as the cal. ; pods quite smooth 
very long and slender almost filiform loosely erecto-patent, 
idt innately vaguely spreading, curved or waved, valves faintly 
many-nerved ; seeds oval or elliptic very narrowly and obscurely 
margined. — DC. Syst. ii. 217 ; Prod. 1. 142 ; Presl 47 ; WB. ! i. 
62, 63. A. alpina Buch ! 196. no. 316 (not Linn.). Turritis 
verna Desf. ii. 92 (excl. syn.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, c. 
Rocks in ravines, &c. everywhere above 1000 ft. flowering irregu- 
larly throughout the year but chiefly in Spr. — Rib. de S ta Luzia, 
de Joao Gomez, Curral das Freiras, Rib. Frio, &c. — Habit of 
A. alpina L. but with larger more conspicuous fl. in larger fuller 
bunches. St. short procumbent sparingly branched thickly 
leafy subcsespitose ; fl. st. ascending about 6 in. high. L. about 
2 in. long and half an inch wide, the teeth equal prominent 
distinct and acute ; st. 1. varying with rounded angular or pointed 
basal lobes. Fl. conspicuous rather large and handsome pure 
white inodorous ; limb of pet. horizontal as long as the claw. 
Pods 2-2^ in. long, \ or £ of a line broad compressed subtorulose 
tipped with a very short beak much narrower than the pod ; the 
valves with several fine and slender nerves but no one prominent. 
Seeds compressed lenticular broadly oval or elliptic, i. e. as broad 
at one end as at the other, not ovate as in A. alpina L. Webb 
l. c. remarks that the gland at the base of the longer fil. is mostly 
wanting, whereas in A. alpina L. it is conspicuous and somewhat 
elongate. 
6. Cardamine L. 
1. C. kirsuta L. 
St. slender straight angular ; 1. all pinnate not auricled at the 
base, leaflets of the lower 1. shortly stalked roundish repand- 
sinuate or toothed, the terminal one rather larger, of the upper 1. 
narrower oblong or linear ; pet. twice as long as the cal. oblong- 
obovate, pods and pedic. erect, beak or style shorter than the pod 
is wide. — Desf. ii. HO; Brot. 1. 683; Elk t. 492; 1)C. Syst. ii. 
269; Prod. 1. 162; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 188; Presl 62; Koch 47 ; Bab. 
24. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3, Moist shady places in ravines; 
Rib. Frio, de S ta Luzia at the foot of the Waterfall, &c. Nov.- 
