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Cardamine.] compressed, red-brown.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 28. Arabis fastigiata, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 324. Pachycladon elongata, Buch. in ''Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xix. (1887) 216. Notothlaspi Hookeri, ''Buch. l.c.'' xx. (1888) 255, t. 13.

6. C. latesiliqua, ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xv. (1883) 298.—Rootstock stout, spongy, as thick as the finger, often branched at the top, each division furnished with a rosette of densely crowded radical leaves. Flowering-stems few or many, erect or spreading, branched, leafy at the base, 6–24 in. high. Radical leaves 3–6 in. long, ⅓–⅔ in. broad, narrow linear-spathulate to obovate-spathulate, gradually narrowed to the base, coarsely serrate above, thick and coriaceous, more or less villous, especially on the margins. Upper cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate, nearly entire. Flowers rather large, white, very numerous. Petals nearly ½ in. long, spathulate, on long claws. Pods erect or suberect, usually curved, somewhat turgid, 1½–2½ in. long, $1⁄6$–$1⁄4$ in. broad. Seeds numerous, compressed, reddish-brown.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 28.

7. C. Enysii, Cheesem. MSS.—Short, stout, 2–4 in. high. Rootstock thick and fleshy, perpendicular, ½ in. diam., bearing at its summit numerous radical leaves, and a short flowering-stem which is much branched from the base, and forms a rounded or pyramidal head 2–5 in. diam. Leaves ½–1½ in. long, ⅓–½ in. broad, oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a broad flat petiole, rather thin, sharply serrate, sometimes almost pinnatifid, more or less densely clothed on both surfaces with stellate pubescence. Cauline leaves linear or linear-spathulate, toothed towards the tip. Flowers numerous, corymbose, white. Pedicels slender, spreading, ¼–⅓ in. long. Petals spathulate, with long claws. Pods (immature) narrow-linear, flat, about 1 in. long. Seeds numerous, in 2 series.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 28.