18 : FUMARIACE (Harv.) [ Discocapnos. 
iL DISCOCAPNOS, Ch. & Schl. 
Petals 4, the posterior one spurred at base. Mruit (a utricle) orbicular, 
flattened, membranous, with a marginal wing and central nerve, 
indehiscent, one-seeded, tipped with the base of the style. Seed lenti- 
cular, beaked, shining. Ch. & Sch. Linn. vol. 1. p. 569. Endl. Gen. No. 
4840. 
A fibrous rooted annual, climbing by the branched tendrils of its decompound 
leaves. Flowers in racemes, flesh-coloured, with dark tips. Name from di0Kos, 
a dise (whence dish) and xamvos. 
1. D. Mundtii (Cham. & Schl. in Linn. r. p. 569): HE. & Z. No. 24. 
Var. « Mundtii ; racemes few-flowered ; ovary elliptical, acute ; 
fruits orbicular, scaberulous, with a broad, membranous, transversely 
costate wing. Harv. Thes. t. 10. 
Var. 8. Dregei ; racemes many flowered ; ovary ovate-acuminate ; 
fruits sub-elliptical, somewhat acute at each end, scabrous, with 4 
nalrow, even wing. : sf is 
Has. In shrubby places. Hills round Capetown, Mundt. and Maire. Near. 
Waterfall, Devil’s Mt, E.& Z.! Camps Bay, W.H.H. 8. at the Bosch River, 
George, Drege ! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Root annual. Stems weak and straggling, succulent. Leaves on | 
bi-tri-pinnately decompound ; the pinne alternate, tripartite or pinnate, with 
broadly cuneate, or obovate, incised, obtusely cut leaflets. Racemes op ite the 
leaves, at first very short, lengthening as the fruit ripens. Bractew scarcely as long 
as the pedicels. Flowers small. Petals all conniving at the point ; the posterior with _ 
a short hooded point and an oblong, blunt, suberect spur of equal length. Appendix 
to the synema adhering to the spur. Ovary elliptical ; styl , cugved. Var. 
8. has smaller and more oblong fruits, with a narrower wink. Jf may possibly be 
specifically distinct. The general aspect is that &f Corydalis Cracca™} but the spur of 
the flower is longer and the fruits very different. 
IV. FUMARIA, L. 
Petals 4, the posterior one saccate at base. Frait subgloboge, at first 
fleshy, then dry, indehiscent, one-seeded. DC. Prod. 1. p. 129. 
Annuals, of European Origin, common in cultivated ground and now naturalized 
throughout the temperate zones. The species have been’ needlessly multiplied, by 
the hair-splitting of novelty-secking botanists, and\I quite agree with Bentham 10 
referring the majority of the so-called species to the old F. officinalis, which varies 
petioles, 
Bom in the colour of the flower, in the form of the fruit, the broader or narrower 
segments, and the relative proportions of the sep@ls‘and petals. The generic 
_ mame is derived from fumus, smoke ; but why! Is it because most of the book: 
Yay Oe Ya 
Syn. Fl. Germ. 11. p. 1017 4 
‘species are “all smoke” ¢ 
1. F. officinalis (Linn.) DC.Prod.1.p.130. #. & Z. En. No. 25. 
_Var. capensis ; stems diffuse, straggling ; leaves on long petioles, 
bipinnate, the pinne petiolate, tripartite, with cuneate, sharply incised, 
mucronulate segments ; racemes lax, few-flowered, petals thrice as long as 
the toothed sepals ; fruit stalks patent ; fruits globose, smooth and even. 
F. capreolata 8. Burchellit. DC. Prod. 1. p.130. FP. Lichtensteinit, Schl. 
Linn. 1. p. 568, F. Eckloniana, Sond. in litt. ; F. muralis, Sond. in Koo 
Han. Common in cultivated ground throtghout the Colony, and assuredly intro 
