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Annual or perennial herbs ; juice watery. Leaves usually divided, seg- 

 ments not jointed. Flowers small, racemed, irregular, hermaphrodite. Se^s 

 2, small, scale-like, deciduous. Fetcds 4, in usually very dissimilar pairs; 

 2 outer larger, one or both gibbous or spurred ; 2 inner smaller, erect, tips 

 often colierent. Staniem 6, in 2 bundles (4, free in Hypecoum)^ opposite 

 the outer petals ; anther of central stamen in each bundle 2-celled, of |^J^^^| 

 1-celled. Ovary 1-celled; style long or short, stigma obtuse or l^*^^^i 

 ovules 2 or more, amphitropous, parietal. Fruit a 2-valved, many-seeded 

 capsule, or an indehiscent 1-seeded nut. Seeds albuminous, raphe some- 

 times appendaged; embryo minute.— Distrtb. Genera 7; species about 

 100, natives of the temp, and warm regions of the N. hemisphere. 



Stamens 4, free 1, Hypecocm. 



Stamens 6, diadelphous. 



Outer petals both spurred ; capsule many-seeded 2. Djce>tiU» 



One outer petal spurred ; capsule many-seeded 3. CorydaUS- 



One outer petal spurred j fruit indehiscent, nut 1-seeded ... 4, FumarU. ' 



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Low annual glaucous herbs. Leaves pinnatisect. Flmvers yellow vrnite 

 or purplish. Sepals 2, sinalL Petals 4, spreading, 2 outer flat or sligW^y 

 concave, obovate, obtuse or obtusely 3-toothed ; 2 inner 3-lobed, ^^^^^ 

 concave. Stamens 4, free, opposite the petals, with sometimes a stalkea 

 gland at the base of each ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-celled, septate within j 

 style short, stigmas 2, glandular at the tips ; ovules many, on 2 panetal 

 placentas. Capsule slender, transversely septate within, breaking up into 

 joints or longitudinally 2-valved. >5^^d5 compressed. —Disteib. Species 4-5; 

 natives of the Mediterranean region and temperate Asia. ; -; 



L K. procumben3, Linn.; leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, flowers Yf^^'ni 

 outer petals 3-lobed, midlobe of inner toothed or fimbriate. U./'^i' 



FL Lid. 275. 



Drier parts of the Punjaub; Peshawur, Vicary, Mooltan, Fdyeworth, Salt K^^Si 

 Fleming^ &c. — Distrib. W. Asia, Mediterranean region. ,, ^ 



Stems many, procumbent, 3-12 in., slender. Leaves 2-4 in., segments linear or y^^^^^ 

 cat; upper sessile, whorled. Flowers fesf, ^ in. diam., pedicelled. -^^'^^^J?^ . -f^oi 

 the lateral segments linear-oblong, obtuse, midlobe entire retuse or 2-fid. Fruit Ir* 3 

 in., i in. broad, curved, subcompressed, at length breaking up into 1-seeded joints. 



2. B. leptocarpum, H. /. <b T. FL Ind. 276 ; leaves 2-pxnnatisect, 

 flowers pale purple, outer petals obtuse, midlobe of inner oblong cucuilate* 



Sandy soil in WEhx. Tjbet, alt. 9-12,000 ft., T. T, ; interior of the SiKKIM HiJt^* 

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4 in., distant; pinnules oblong, sharply cut; uppermost 



I-Jin, diam. ; pedicels slender. Inner petals lobed almost to the middle. Fruit i 

 very slender, breaking up into 1-seeded joints. ^^-.^^ 



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■ Glabrous, perennial rooted, climbing, slender lierbs.'Zeaves Secbmpo^^ j 

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