474 CRUCIFERAE. | Lemidium. 
rarely linear, entire or lobed on the upper edge. Cauline leaves oblong or 
ovate, sessile, usually entire. Flowers small, in short and dense racemes 
at the ends of the branches. Petals wanting in both sexes. Stamens 4. 
Fruiting-pedicels patent or slightly decurved, rather longer than the pods. 
Pods ovate, not winged, shortly notched above; style short, slightly 
exceeding the notch.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 36; Cheesem. Man, N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 41. 
SourtH Istanp: Otago—Alexandra South, Gimmerburn, Petrie / November-— 
December. 
Best recognized by the strict habit, scabrid and coriaceous leaves, short dense 
racemes, and apetalous dioecious flowers. 
9. L. sisymbrioides Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 14.—Diocecious, 
pubescent or almost glabrous, suberect, 2-5in. high. Root stout and 
woody, often as thick as the finger, very long and tapering, much divided 
at the top. Leaves nearly all radical, numerous, crowded, spreading, 1-2 in. 
Jong, linear or linear-oblong in outline, deeply pinnatifid ; segments many, 
small, short, entire or lobulate on the upper edge ; petioles flat, often dilated 
at the base. Flowering stems numerous, slender, branched, spreading or 
suberect, usually with a few small entire cauline leaves below, sometimes 
naked. Flowers small, in terminal racemes; males with 4 narrow petals 
or apetalous; females always apetalous. Stamens 4. Pod about 4 as 
long as the slender spreading pedicels, ovate-rhomboid, acute at both ends, 
shehtly winged above, minutely notched; style exceeding the notch.— 
P. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 37; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 42; JIL. 
N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 11. L. Solandri 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 
380. L. sisymbrioides subs. Solandri Thellung Monog. Lepidiwm (1906) 
5213. Nasturtium sisymbrioides O. Knutz Revis. i (1891) 937. . 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Broken River district, Haast, J. D. Enys! T. Kirk! 
7. F. O., Cockayne ; Mackenzie Plains, J. F. Armstrong; Lakes Tekapo and Pukaki, 
7’. F.C. ; Lake Ohau, Haast. Otago—Waitaki Valley and Lake Wanaka, Buchanan / 
Kurow, Petrie / Altitudinal range 500-3000 ft. December—January. 
I regard this as a distinct species, at once separated from the two preceding by the 
more depressed. habit, lax racemes, and ovate-rhomboid pods; and I cannot at all agree 
with Dr. Thellung in combining the three into one species. 
it should be mentioned that the stout cylindric root often descends for distances 
altogether out of proportion to the short stems. On one occasion Mr. Enys showed me 
specimens nearly 4 ft. in length. 
7. NOTOTHLASPI Hook. f. t*¥612, 
Small fleshy simple or branched alpine herbs, glabrous or slightly hairy. 
Leaves all radical, or radical and cauline, spathulate, petiolate. Flowers 
rather large, white, densely crowded in a terminal raceme, or corymbose 
at the tips of the branches. Sepals erect, equal at the base. Petals 
spathulate. Pods rather large, obovate or oblong, much compressed, valves 
very broadly winged. Seeds numerous in each cell, reniform, attached by 
slender long funicles. Cotyledons incumbent; radicle often very long. 
_ A genus of two species, both confined to the mountains of the South Island. It 
is remarkable for its very numerous seeds, and long capillary funicles. 
Stem simple. Flowers densely crowded on a stout terminal peduncle 
_ or scape. Style very short . ae ns Ae hy 
Stem usually much branched. Flowers corymbose at the ends of 
the branches. Style long 
1. N. rosulatum. 
-- 2. N. australe. 
