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Notothlaspi.] or cushion, spathulate, crenate or dentate, when young clothed with white cellular ribband-like hairs, glabrous or nearly so when old, narrowed into a petiole of variable length. Scape very stout, sometimes as thick as the finger, covered with densely crowded sweet-scented flowers, forming a conical or pyramidal raceme. Pods ½–1 in. long, obovate, very broadly winged, notched at the top; style very short; stigma 2-lobed. Seeds numerous, subreniform, pitted; radicle very long, twice folded, first upwards then downwards and backwards over the back of the cotyledons.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 38. N. notabile. ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 344, t. 25.

2. N. australe, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 15.—Small, densely tufted, usually much branched from the base; branches leafy, spreading, 1–4 in. long. Leaves radical and cauline, numerous, ½–1½ in. long, petiolate, linear- or oblong-spathulate, entire or crenate, glabrous or with a few cellular hairs, often recurved. Flowers very numerous, corymbose, about ¼ in. diam. Pod much smaller than in the preceding species, ⅓–½ in. long, broadly oblong or elliptic, winged, barely notched at the top; style long, almost ⅓ the length of the pod. Seeds numerous, pitted; radicle long, slender.—Kirk, Students Fl. 38. Thlaspi (?) australe, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 325.





Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves usually alternate, simple, entire lobed or cut, stipulate. Flowers regular or irregular, axillary, solitary or arranged in cymes or panicles, rarely racemose. Sepals 5, equal or unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or unequal, lower one sometimes spurred, usually imbricate. Stamens 5, hypogynous; filaments short, broad; anthers erect, free or connate round the pistil; connective broad, usually produced beyond the cells into an appendage. Ovary free, 1-celled, with