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and flowers. Leaves on long, terete petioles, cordate. Flowers on simple 
peduncles.—1 South African species, VV. stellata, with blue or rarely white, 
sweet-scented flowers, standing out of the water. It is found in rivers and 
ponds throughout South Africa. 
Orper V. PAPAVERACESA. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 2-3, deciduous. Petals 4-6, 
equal, spreading, crumpled in the bud. Stamens many ; fila- 
ments slender; anthers adnate. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 or se- 
veral parietal placente ; ovulesmany. Capsule many-seeded. 
—The Poppy family. Herbs, with coloured, narcotic juices. 
1. PAPAVER, Linn. 
Ovary globose or obovoid, crowned with 4-20 radiating, li- 
near, sessile stigmas. Capsule oblong, dry, opening by small 
pores under the stigmas ; placentz projecting into the cavity, 
and dividing it into several incomplete chambers. Seeds very 
numerous.—F7. Cap. i. p. 15. 
1 South African species, P. aculeatum, Th.; the Wild Poppy. Radical 
leaves many, sinuous or pinnatifid, setose and bristly; stem-leaves sessile, 
very hispid. Flowers scarlet-orange, on long peduncles.— Native of the Nor- 
thern and Eastern districts. P. horridum, DC., from Australia, is a syno- 
nym of this species. 
Orpver VI. FUMARIACES. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 2, minute, scale-like. Petals. 4, 
unequal, connivent im pairs, one or both of the outer pair 
spurred or saccate at base. Stamens 6, diadelphous, 3 in each 
parcel.—Glabrous, often glaucous, twining herbs, with much- 
divided leaves, and small, purple white or yellow, racemose 
flowers. 
Fruit many-seeded, capsular. 
Capsule bladder-like, subglobose . . . . . . . 1. CysTIcapnos. 
Capsule lanceolate, compressed. . . . . . . . 2. CORYDALIS. 
Fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent. 
Fruit flattened, orbicular. . . . . . . . . . 8. Discocapnos. 
Fruit subglobose, not flattened. . . . . . . . 4 FuMmartia. 
1. CYSTICAPNOS, Boerh. 
Capsule 2-valved, bladdery ; epicarp inflated, spongy within ; 
endocarp delicately membranous, supported by slender fila- 
_ inents in the centre of the cavity, and bearing at the margins 
of the valves many-seeded placentw. Seeds compressed, 
beaked.—Ll. Cap. 1. p. 16. 
