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128 * IX. FUMARIACE^. [Fumria. 



ovxdes 2, on 2 placentas. FTniit indehiscent, globose, 1-seeded.— Distbib. 

 Species about 8 ; usually agrarian weeds of the temperate regions of the 

 Old World, ' .; ^V 



1. P. parviflora, Lamh sub-sp. Vaullantii, Loisel (sp.) ; diffuse, leaf- 

 segments flat, racemes lax-flowered, sepals lanceolate much smaller than tne 

 corolla-tube, pedicels exceeding the bracts, fruit globose rugose when dry 

 rounded at the top with 2 pits. - ■ 



Indogangetic plain, Lower Himalaya and Nilghiri Mts., a weed of cultivation. 



— DiSTRiB. : of the genus. • • t. ^ 



Pale green, much branched. Bacemes 1-2 in. Flowers J-^ in., whitish or r^* 



coloured, tips puiple. 



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Order X. CRUCIFERffi. (By HooTcer f. & T. Anderson.) 



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Herbs, rarely undershrubs ; juice watery, often pungent. Leaves caiihne 

 and radical, the latter in a rosette, cauline alternate, exstipulate. Flojen 

 racemed, rarely solitary on scapes, or axillary. Sepals 4, free, 2 lateral (op- 

 posite the placentas) often large and saccate at the base, imbricate, x^^^* 

 4, free, hypogynous, placed crosswise, imbricate. Stameiis 6 (rarely 1, 2, or 

 many) ; 2 outer opposite the lateral sepals ; 4 inner longer, in opposite pairs. 

 Z)zsA' with usually 4 glands opposite the sepals. Ovary 2-celled ^y.^ P ' 

 cental membrane, or 1-celled, or with superimposed cellules ; style short or 

 ; stigma simple or with 2 lobes opposite the placentas ; ovules 1-2 or ^> 

 2-seriate on two parietal placentas, rarely solitary and erect. JVwz^^eitner 

 a 2-celled 2-valved pod, the valves deciduous and leaving the seeds on the 

 persistent placentas {replum), or indehiscent, or transversely jointed w^^*^^ 

 small, albumen ; cotyledons large, plano-convex or longitudinally concave 

 or folded, foliaceous in germination; radicle turned up on the back Qi o^ 

 cotyledon {incumbent), or facing the edges of both {accumhmt),-;-'^^^^^ 

 Genera 172 ; species about 1200 : natives chiefly of temperate regions.px tne 



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Pods long or short, dehiscing throughout their length, terete 4-angle(ior 

 compressed dorsally (parallel to the septum). ^ '^^ f'^ . 



Tribe I. ArabidesB. Fods narrow, long. Seeds usually l-se^jrj 

 Cotyledons accumbent. (Pods sometimes short in 2, Parry a, 5, Nasiuw 

 and 10, Notoceras ; seeds 2-seriate in Arahk qlahra, and in some species 

 , Fairya,) 



Sepals narroWy erect. Valves without Jiarns or ajypendages. StigT^^^^ ^^ 

 connate or decurrent on the style (2-lobed in some species of 2. Parrya). -J, 



Erect branched hoary herbs 1. MatthioU* 



Low alpine tuft«d scapigerouB herbs 2. PabrX-** : > 



*♦ Sepals Iroad or narrow. Stigma undivided or shortly Z-lobed. (See also 

 2, Parrya.) . - ; - 



Sepals erect, lateral saccate.— Hoaiy leafy erect herbs ' , . . 3, CnEiKAirrBC*- 

 Anthers of long stamens 1-celled.— A minute herb ..... 4. AtelanthE?*' 

 Sepals spreading, not saccate; pods tumid^ seeds minute 2-- ' ^ __, 



seriate. Flowers usually jellow . ... . . . , , ^ . . 5. Nastl'BTIC»» 



^epals not saccate; pods 4 angled;* see^s l-seriate/ Flowers 

 yellow . 







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