ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 29 
consumed of either one or the other so much the better for the consumer, but, judging from the 
accounts of travellers, who have visited countries inhabited principally by Musselmen, nearly 
as the former would have us believe ; and as the sources of their (spirits) supply are so much 
more numerous, and the facility of production so much greater, perhaps upon the whole, could the 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE Il. 
I. Flowering branch of Argemone mexicana--natu- ing the filiform placenta still attached to the stigma— 
ral size.. naiural size. 
2. Stamens and ovary, the sepals and petals remov- . Fruit eut transversely, showing the 5 placenta 
ed. 3,4. Stamens ret pollen. with their attached ovules-—all more or less magnified. 
5. Petal. detached. 6. Ovary eut vertically, show- . A deta seed. 10, The same cut longitudi. 
ing the numerous ovules attached to the parietal pla- nally, showing the embryo. at the base of a large albu- 
cente, the whole length of the ovary—magnijied. men, 
7. Ripe fruit, with valves of the capsule open, leav- it. Embryo separated. 
FUMARIACE. 
_ _ These viewed in their Botanical relations simply, form a curious and interesting order ; but’ 
in Indian Botany, one of very minor importance, only one species being found in the southern 
