6 VI. FUMARIACE. 
Endemic. C. Africana, the only species, is frequent near Capetown; 
also at Stellenbosch and Swellendam. Its bladdery capsules are 1 inch 
in diameter, pointed, and splitting into two boat-like valves. 
2. CORYDALIS, DC. 
Capsule pod-shaped, compressed, 1-celled, 2-valved; valves 
separating from a persistent, placentiferous replum (or frame). 
Seeds lenticular, beaked—l. Cap. 1. p. 16. 
3 South African species, all annuals, with climbing stems and multifid 
leaves. 
3. DISCOCAPNOS, Ch. and Schl. 
Fruit (a utricle) orbicular, flattened, membranous, with a 
marginal wing, indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seed lenticular, beaked. 
— Fl. Cap.i. p. 18; Thes. Cap. t. 10. 
Endemic. D. Mundtii, the. only species, is found near Capetown, ete. 
It is like the common “ Fumitory,” but differs in its flattened fruit. 
4. FUMARTIA, Linn. 
Fruit subglobose (not flattened), dry, indehiscent, 1-seeded. 
F.. officinalis, L., the common “ Fumitory,” is a weed of cultivation, in- 
troduced from Europe. Grows in waste places and old gardens. 
Orper VII. CRUCIFERA. 
Flowers bisexual. Sepals 4, deciduous. Petals 4, clawed, 
mostly equal, spreading in the form of a cross. Stamens 6, 4 
long and 2 short; anthers versatile. Ovary 2-celled, with pa- 
rietal placente. Fruit a long pod (siligu) or a short one 
(stlieula). Seeds without albumen.—Herbs or shrublets, with 
alternate leaves and no stipules. Flowers in racemes, white 
yellow purple or sky-blue.—Many garden vegetables, such as 
Cabbage, Turnips, Mustard, Cress, Radishes, Horseradish ete. i3 
and oarden flowers, such as Stocks, Wallflowers, etc., belong 
to this Order. 
A. Srziquosm. Fruit-pod several times as long as 
broad. 
* Pod with flat or flattish valves. 
Calyx equal at base (not spurred). 
Seeds with flat, accumbent cotyledons (0= 
Pod linear-elongate, narrow; valves not 
elastic . . . . 4 ARABIS, 
Pod acute at each end ; “valves bursting with 
elasticity . 5. CARDAMINE. 
Seeds with long, twice- folded cotyledons 0 | I ). 
Pod linear or beaded . 13. HELIOPHILA. 
Calyx 2-spurred at base . . . . 12. CHAMTRaA. 
** Pod 2-edged or 4-angled, with keeled valves. . 3.' BARBAREA, 
