Fruit with many seeds and a sword-shaped beak. Leaves lyrate or undivided. (See 74.) =Eruca= Lam. 87. (82.) Fruit 1-seeded. 88 Fruit 2-or more-seeded. 91 88. Fruit slightly or not compressed, ovoid, with a crusty rind. Seed globular. Cotyledons folded; radicle incumbent. Petals white. Filaments without an appendage. Glands confluent. Radical leaves pinnately divided. Fruit-stalks spreading-erect.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Calepina= Adans. Fruit much compressed. Leaves undivided. 89 89. Sepals petal-like. Petals rose-coloured. Filaments without an appendage. Glands wanting. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit elliptical. Radicle accumbent. Shrubs. Leaves entire. (See 20.) =Schlechteria= Bolus Sepals not petal-like. Glands present. Ovary 2-celled. Herbs or undershrubs. 90 90. Petals rose-coloured. Longer filaments with a tooth-like appendage. Median glands wanting. Apex of the style truncate beneath the stigma. Fruit discoid, winged.--Species 2. North-west Africa (Algeria). Used as ornamental plants. =Aethionema= R. Br. Petals yellow. Filaments without an appendage. Median and lateral glands confluent into a ring. Apex of the style more or less 2-lobed beneath the stigma. Fruit with 6 longitudinal nerves. Fruit-stalks bent downwards. (See 59.) =Isatis= L. 91. (87.) Fruit 2-seeded. 92 Fruit 4-or more-seeded. 99 92. Fruit much compressed from the back, oblong, with a soon vanishing partition and flat, net-veined valves. Seeds horizontal, winged; radicle accumbent. Lateral sepals saccate. Petals pale-violet. Leaves pinnatisect.--Species 1. North-east Africa (Egypt). =Ricotia= L. Fruit compressed from the side, and then with a narrow partition, or not compressed; partition well developed. 93 93. Fruit distinctly compressed laterally. 94 Fruit not distinctly compressed. 97 94. Fruit moderately compressed, with a lanceolate or elliptical partition, opening by 2 valves. Seeds pendulous; radicle incumbent, rarely obliquely accumbent; cotyledons inserted behind the bend of the embryo. Petals white, more rarely yellowish or wanting.--Species 20. Some of them (especially _L. sativum_ L., garden-cress) yield salad, oil, and medicaments. =Lepidium= L. Fruit strongly compressed, with a linear partition. 95 95. Seeds horizontal, inserted in the middle of the cell. Radicle short, accumbent; cotyledons inserted behind the bend of the embryo. Petals yellow. Median and lateral glands present.--Species 6. North Africa. Some are used medicinally. =Biscutella= L. Seeds pendulous from the top of the cell. Petals, when present, white, red or violet. 96 96. Radicle incumbent; cotyledons inserted behind the bend of the embryo. Style very short. Fruit reniform, wrinkled, indehiscent.--Species 7. Some of them are used medicinally. (_Senebiera_ Poir.) =Coronopus= Gaertn.