30 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
provinces, and that a very doubtful native ; as there appears to be no Tamul or Telogoo name 
or it. I have however thought it right to introduce it here, as forming a link in the chain of 
affinities, which it is desirable should remain as much unbroken as the Flora will permit. The 
only species yet known, in this part of India, is found in corn fields on the Neilgherries, where 
it was probably brought, with corn seed, either from Bengal or Europe. 
umariacee are glabrous, herbacious, tender plants ; with watery juice; either annual 
or perennial ; occasionally with tuberous roots, and alternate, generally, much divided, ex-sti- 
pulate leaves ; often furnished with tendrils; and irregular, hermaphrodite, spiked, bractiolate 
flowers. 
hiscent, either a one or two-seeded nut, or a succulent, many-seeded, pod. Seeds horizontal 
shining, cristed. Albumen fleshy. Embryo, nearly straight, out of the axis. 
Arrinitizs. Most Botanists consider Fumariacee as very nearly allied to Papaveracee 
on account of their two-leaved deciduous calyx, the structure of the fruit of the dehiscent 
species, and their fleshy albumen; but differing in their watery juice, their irregular petals, and 
their diadelphous stamens, with indifferently one or two-celled anthers. Dr. Lindley however 
proposes a different and very ingenious exposition of their structure, which I shall quote in his 
evid ie st ose organs are combined in two 
parcels, one of which is opposite each of the divisions of the outer series, and consists of one 
perfect two-celled anther in the middle, and two lateral one-celled ones : now, supposing the lateral 
ng to a common stamen, the filament of which is split by 
Lindley’s work, exhibiting a beautiful instance of 
en properly studied, is too interesting to be passed 
that spot, where it is required to perform the office of feiondaia* cant ee pollen x. fs 
