Hutera Porta Hutera Hutera, Porta

94. Hutera Porta 2

Biennial or perennial herbs. Flowers in corymbose racemes. Petals clawed, yellow, with violet veins. Fruit a transversely articulate siliqua; the lower segment dehiscent, bilocular, with 1-8 seeds; the upper segment indéhiscent, bilocular or ± unilocular, with 1-6 seeds, ventricose-obovate or ± moniliform, terminating in an ensiform or attenuate beak. ( Coincya Rouy. ) Literature: J. Gonzalez-Albo, Cavanillesia 6: 175-7 (1934). Upper segment of the fruit 12-20 mm, 5-6 mm in diameter,

ventricose; the lower segment 2-5 mm long 1. rupestris Upper segment of the fruit 16-28 mm, 2-4 mm in diameter,

±moniliform; the lower segment 4-15 mm long 2. leptocarpa

1. H. rupestris Porta , Atti Accad. Agiati 9: 6 (1891)

( Coincya rupestris Rouy ).

Biennial; stems erect, branched, pubescent with recurved hairs. Leaves 10-20 cm, lyrate-pinnatipartite, the lobes sinuate-dentate, the terminal lobe larger than the laterals. Fruit glabrous, the lower segment stalk-like, dehiscent, with 1-4 seeds in 2 rows; the upper segment obovate, inflated, longitudinally striate, with 1-3 seeds; beak ensiform. Limestone rocks. • S.E. Spain (Sierra de Alcaraz). Hs.