Perennial with woody base, 30-75 cm tall, glabrous, glaucous. Lower leaves 5-15 cm long, 2-6 cm broad, elliptic-oblong, shortly stalked, usually acute, entire fleshy, glabrous; upper leaves small, narrowly oblong, 2-5 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm broad, sessile or subsessile; upper most linear, semiamplexicaul. Racemes 10-20-flowered, lax, up to 30 cm long in fruit. Flowers 10-15 mm across, pinkish or lilac. Pedicel 2-4 mm long, slightly increasing and thickened in fruit; Sepals 7-9 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad. Petals 12-14 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad. Stamens c. 7:9 mm long; anthers c. 3.5 mm long, acute. Siliquae linear-terete, 20-70 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad; beak usually about 5 mm long and 1 mm thick, conical, sterile; septum membranous with uniseriate depressions formed by seeds; seeds 10-15 in each locule, uniseriate, large, c. 2 mm long, oblong-ellipsoid, brown

F1. Per.: July-October.

Type: W. Pakistan: Punjab, Pind Dadan Khan (Salt range), Jacquemont (K).

Distribution: Endemic.