28 VIII. FUMABIACEJK. 



or an indehiscent, 1-seeded nut. Seeds albuminous ; raphe sometimes 

 appendaged ; embryo minute. — DisxniB. Widely diffused throughout 

 the temperate and warm regions of the N. hemisphere and extratropical 

 Africa ; genera 7 ; species 130. 



1. FUMARIA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually annual, often diffuse or scandent. Leaves multisect ; 

 segments usually narrow. Elowers small, white, rosy, or purplish, 

 in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Sepals 2, small. Petals 4, 

 erect or counivent ; the 2 outer dissimilar, the lower flat or concave, 

 the upper gibbous oi- spurred at the base ; the 2 inner clawed, 

 keeled, tips free or coherent. Stamens 6, diadelphous, with a basal 

 spur enclosed in the spur of the petal. Ovary 1-celled; style fili- 

 form; stigma entire or shortly 2-lobed. Fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent, 

 subglobose. — Disthib. Europe, Central Asia and extratropical Africa ; 

 species 8. 



1. Fumaria parviflora. Lam. Encyc. v. 2 (1786) p. 567, var. Vail- 

 laniii, Loiscl (sp.) //*. Bi'sv. Joarn. Bot. v. 2 (1809) p. 358. Diffuse, 6 in.- 

 2 ft. high ; stem and branches glabrous or faintly puberulous. Leaves 

 multifid, glaucous ; segments flat, narrow-linear, acute, mucronate. 

 Eacemes lax, 1-2| in. long ; flowers |-g in. long, white or pale I'ose 

 with purple tips ; fruiting pedicels g in. long ; bracts membranous, 

 lanceolate, shorter than or equalling the fruiting pedicels. Sepals minute, 

 caducous. Capsule globose, not pointed, slightly verrucose, polished. 

 El. B. T. V. 1, p. 128; Grab. Cat. p. 6; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 7; DC. 

 Prodr. v. 1, p. 130 ; W. & A. Prodr. p. 18 ; Syme, Eng. Bot. v. 1, 

 ed. 3, p. 113, t. 77 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 121 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 454. — Flowers : Jan. Veen. 

 Pitpdpda. 



A weed found usually iu cultivated fields in tbe Deccan and Sind. Deccan: Dalsell 

 ^- Gibson, Woodrow; Sirur, Graham; Khandesb, Woodrowl, DaLell S^- Gibson. Sind: 

 Stocks, 687 .' ; Cooke I 



Okdee IX. CRUCIFER^. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with watery, often acrid 

 juice. Leaves radical or alternate, exstipulate. Flowers usually racemose. 

 Sepals 4, free, the 2 lateral often large and saccate at the base, imbricate. 

 Petals 4 (rarely 0), placed crosswise, imbricate. Stamens 6, 2-seriate, 

 hypogynous ; the 2 outer opposite the lateral sepals ; the 4 inner larger, 

 iu pairs, opposite the other sepals ; filaments subulate. Disk with 

 usually 4 glands opposite the sepals. Ovary 2-celled, by a septum joining 

 the placentas, or 1-celled or with superimposed cellules ; ovules many 

 (rarely 1-2), 1-2-seriate, on 2 parietal placentas ; style short or ; stigma 

 simi)le, or with 2 lobes opposite the placentas. Fruit a long or short, 

 2-celled and 2-valved pod, the valves deciduous and leaving the seeds 

 on the persistent placentas {rephun), or indehiscent, or of superposed 

 l-seeded joints. Seeds small; alhumen 0; cotyledons large, plano- 

 convex or longitudinally concave or folded, foliaceous in germination ; 

 radicle turned up on the back of one cotyledon {incumbent) or facing 



