18 - FUMARIACE/E. FUMARIA. 
repand-sinuated, with thorny teeth. Peduncles erect both before and after 
flowering. Flowers yellow or white. 
. 59. (1) A. Mexicana (Linn. :) leaves deeply repand-sinuate, blotched with 
white: flowers solitary: calyx glabrous, prickly: petals 4-6: stigmas 4-5: 
capsules prickly, 4-5-valved.—DC. prod. 1. p. 120 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 604; 
Wight ! cat. n. 59. Š 
ORDER IX.—FUMARIACEX. DC. 
Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals hypogynous, 4, cruciate; one or both 
of the two outer saccate at the base; the two inner callous at the 
apex, where they cohere and inclose the anthers and stigma. Stamens 
hypogynous, 6, diadelphous, opposite the outer petals: anthers of the 
middle stamens of each parcel 2-celled, of the outer ones l-celled. 
Ovary 1-celled: style filiform, stigma with 2 or more points. Fruit a 
1-seeded utricle; or a 2-valved, 2-seeded, indehiscent capsule; or a 2- 
valved, polyspermous siliqua. Seeds with an arillus, attached to nar- 
row parietal placente. Albumen fleshy. Embryo nearly straight, 
minute, eccentric.—Herbaceous plants, with a watery juice. Leaves 
alternate, multifid. 
I. FUMARIA. Linn.; Gertn. fr. t. 115. 
Petals 4; the lower one distinct, linear ; the three upper united, the middle 
one spurred downwards. Stamens diadelphous. Fruit ovate or globose, 
indehiscent, l-seeded. Style deciduous after flowering —Annual smooth, 
branched herbs. Leaves many times divided. Flowers racemose, whitish — — 
or purplish. Peduncles terminal or opposite to the leaves. 
60. (1) F. parvifi (Lam.:) leaves linear, channelled : bracteas at first as 
long as the flower, afterwards about as short as the fructiferous pedicel: se- 
pals minute: fruit globose, slightly pointed —DC. prod, 1. p. 130 ; Spr. syst. 
3. p. 159 ; Wall.! L. n. 1436; Wight! cat. n. 61. Neelgherries. 
In the Indian plant the flowers are rose-coloured, and approach closely to 
F. Vaillantii. 
* 61. (2) F. officinalis (Linn.:) bracteas two or three times shorter than 
the fruit-bearing pedicel: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply toothed, ——— 
scarcely so long as thé plóbose very abrupt ór'óbcordate frait—DC.! prod. 1- —— 
p. 180 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 159; Wall. L. n. 1497. 
- ORDER X.—CRUCIFERZ. | | Juss. 
Sepals 4; two, corresponding to the two stigmas, are anterior and 
posterior, and narrower than the others; two are lateral, or corres- 
ponding to the valves, broader, concave at the base, gibbous or spurred. 
Corolla hypogynous, cruciform: petals 4, alternate with the sepals, 
nearly equal, deciduous. Stamens hypogynous, 6; the two opposite —— 
the lateral sepals are solitary, shorter, and occasionally toothed ; four 
in pairs opposite the anterior and posterior sepals, longer, generally — 
free, sometimes connate, or furnished with a tooth on the inside: an- — 
thers bilocular, introrse. Torus with several glands between the petals — 
