Cardamine.'] 
III. CRUCIFERiE. 
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rather small, white. Pods stout, 1-1|- in. long, on horizontally spreading 
stout pedicels ; valves concave ; style stout, -g-*in. long. Seeds brown, with 
impressed dots. — Arabis gigantea, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 259. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, R. Cunningham ; near Auckland, Lyall, Sinclair. 
Seeds rather smaller and paler than in the Australian and Tasmanian plant ; leaves in one 
specimen almost pinnatifid ; but clearly, I think, the same species. 
4. C. fastigiata, Hook. f. — Arabis fastigiata, PI. N. Z. ii. 324. A 
glabrous perennial ; rootstock a span long, perpendicular, tapering, fusiform, 
as thick as the little finger, densely clothed towards the apex with the recurved 
bases of the old leaves ; branches ascending from the top of the rootstock 
amongst the leaves, 6-18 in. long, rather stout, leafy, simple or branched. 
Leaves densely rosulate at the apex of the rootstock, 2-3 in. long, narrow, 
lanceolate-spathulate, acute, coarsely inciso-serrate, very coriaceous ; cauline 
less spathulate, narrower, with narrower serratures. Flowers very numerous, 
white, about -§■ in. diam., on slender pedicels. Petals with narrow claws. 
Pods suberect, curved, narrow-linear, 1^-2 in. long, in. broad, with acute 
ends and very short styles. Seeds (unripe) oblong, compressed, red-brown. 
Middle Island : highest part of Macrae’s run, Munro ; river-bed of the Macaulay, alt. 
3500 ft., Haast. In the New Zealand Flora, I referred this to Arabis, and it has equal claims 
to this genus and Cardamine ; but its close affinity with C. radicata, of Tasmania, determines 
me to transfer it here. 
5. BE AY A, Sternberg. 
Alpine, densely tufted, perennial herbs, with long tap-roots, rosulate radical 
leaves, and scape's bearing short few-flowered racemes or corymbs. — Flowers 
white pink or purplish. Sepals short, equal. Petals obovate. Stamens 6. 
Pod short, thick, ovate or oblong; valves convex, with a stout costa, or 
keeled ; septum entire or open ; style very short ; stigma capitate. Seeds 
in 1 or 2 series; funicles very short; cotyledons incumbent. 
An Arctic genus, also found, but rarely, in the loftiest alps of Europe, N. Asia, and N. 
and S. America. 
1. B. novse-Zelandiae, Hook. /., n. sp. A very short, depressed, al- 
pine herb, covered with stellate pubescence ; root long, tap-shaped, as thick 
as the finger, bearing one or several equally thick, erect or ascending cylindric 
branches, covered with scars of old leaves and surmounted by a head of small 
imbricating leaves that spread out horizontally. Leaves £ in. long, oblong, 
pinnatifidly lobed, narrowed into flat short petioles ; those on the scapes with 
longer petioles, and a minute obovate blade, which is digitately lobed at the 
top. Scapes or peduncles very numerous, rising from the root below the 
leaves, shorter than these, and spreading horizontally, 3-5-flowered. Flowers 
not seen. Pods L in. long, about half as broad, laterally compressed; 
septum incomplete. Seeds 3-5 in each valve, obovoid. 
Middle Island : Lake district, debris of schist on Mount Alta, alt. 5000 ft., Hector and 
Buchanan. A most remarkable plant ; the pod is rather too much compressed for Braga, 
and approaches that of Lepidium. 
6. LEPIDIUM, Linn. 
Herbs, sometimes with an almost woody stem, toothed or pinnatifid leaves, 
and white, sometimes unisexual flowers. — Stamens 4 or 6. Pods broad, 
