GENERA FUMARIA AND RUPICAPNOS. 309 
The range of F. abyssinica is now known to extend from Abyssinia to the 
Italian coast colony of Eritrea and across the Red Sea to Arabia Felix. 
There is also an immature specimen from Uganda in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
(Bagshawe, Ruchiga, No. 396 !) which seems referable here. It appears to 
occur only at a considerable altitude. F. abyssinica is further recorded on 
Haussknecht’s authority for Gabes in Murbeck's ‘Contributions Fl. du Nord- 
Ouest de Afrique,’ p. 5 (1897). 
The material collected in the Kilimandjaro district of East Africa as 
F. abyssinica is referred to a distinct species F. australis. 
38. FUMARIA AUSTRALIS, sp. nov. (Pl. 13.) 
Exsice. Volkens, Fl. des Kilimandscharo, 1893, Nos. 953 & 1333, Marangu 
(2800 m.) et Fuss des Kifinnka (2700 m.), ut F. abyssinica! Whyte, 
Nandi District, Tropical E. Africa (2000 m.), 1898, in Hb. Kew! 
Fumaria verisimiliter annua, habitu satis robusto, internodis longis 
elongata, petiolis cirrhosis scandens. Folia glauca, foliolis in lacinias planas 
lineari-lanceolatas vel lanceolatas, acutas, longe mucronatas vel aristatas 
fissis 2-3-pinnatisecta, Racemi 12-20-flori, floriferi conspicue densi, etiam 
fructiferi pedunculis mediocribus paulo breviores, rarius eos subsequantes. 
Bractee magne et conspicue late, oblongs, cuspidate, sparsim serrulatw, 
pedicellis fructiferis brevissimis (circa 1:5 mm. longis), crassis, erecto-patentibus 
subduplo longiores. Sepala circa 2 mm. longa, 1 mm. lata, oblongo-ovata, 
acuta, irregulariter dentata, rosea. Corolla 5—7 mm. longa, rosea ; petalo supe- 
riore alis roseis angustissimis fere obsoletis sepissime deflexis apicem haud 
attingentibus acuto, calcare brevi parum curvato ; petalo inferiore marginibus 
patentibus apicem vix attingentibus subacuto subspathulato ; petalis interiori- 
bus apice atropurpureis. Fructûs modici, circa 2:25 mm. longi ac lati, 
subrotundi, superne cum apiculo brevissimo persistente obtusiusculi, inferne 
in stipitem latum parum angustati, paululum compressi sed plane carinati, in 
sicco apicis foveolis obscurissimis dense rugosi. 
Hee Fumaria, que ad F. abyssinicam relata est, habitu laxiore scandente, 
foliorum laciniis fere aristatis nonnunquam latioribus, racemis densis longius 
pedunculatis, bracteis majoribus, et preesertim corollis acutis petalique 
superioris alis angustissimis deflexis nec sursum reflexis satis differt. 
Ab hujus subsectionis speciebus aliis per corolle formam subexalatam 
F. australis :equaliter distat. Petali superioris ale fere obsolete eis 
F. coccinec similes sed specierum duarum characteres reliqui omnino diversi 
sunt. 
F. australis in regionibus Kilimandjaro et Nandi Africe orientalis crescit, 
The exsiceata collected by Volkens, though elongate, show highly coloured 
and what seem to be normally developed flowers, and appear to be the usual 
form of a southern endemic species. 
