HYPECOUM. 723 
nulosis. Potius, pedicelli partis antheriformis, alato 
lobat. lobis postea evolutis,) antheriformem brevi pedicellat. 
concava lamina pulehra fimbriata, demum recurva, carina 
obsoleta in centro lutea maculis parvis atro-purpur. 
Bractez or sepals of terminal or central flower anticous 
and posticous of the lateral ones, right and left only. 
Stam 4 anisomera, his petalis oppositis compositis, illis 
sepalis oppositis simplicibus. Filamenta carnosa complanata, 
rugosula, his (sepalinis) paullo brevioribus et 1 angustiori- 
bus vasc. centrali unico illis petalis amplexis latioribus et lon- 
gioribus (bis) vasibus binis, quorum quoque ad marginem 
interna loculi cujusque currit. 
Anthere adnate oblongz loculis lateralibus omnes bilo- 
culares, et statura excepta nulli modo different. the septa 
of larger ones are more complete. 
Pollen ovatum medio plicatum glabrum. Ovarium 
4 gonum, oblongum sursum in stylum curvatum centro 
Sulcatum attenuat. Stigma bilobum et secus sulcum stylo 
decurrens, fol. carpellam bina (right and left,) uniloculare, 
placentis binis anticis posticisque indistinctis ovulis biseria- 
tis alternant pendulis, structure ordinarie, foram. subcons- 
picua ad apicem ovuli deorsumque spectantes. Fructus si- 
liquiformis, deorsum curvatis, vel nutant subteres utrinque 
attenuat. 
This is a singular plant evidently belonging to Fumaria- 
cem. 
The outer scales or sepals of.some authors are perhaps 
better viewed as bractee, to which in some plants of the 
order, they are extremely akin in structure and form. They 
may perhaps be considered as bractez from viewing the 
strictly dichotomous nature of the inflorescence in some, 
_ and in this case Famariacez may be expected with ternarily 
Subageregate flowers, and without these outer scales. 
The sepals have a curious estivation, incurvato-valvato, 
itis only at an advanced stage of development, that they 
puton the petaloid appearance, The petals presents the 
