14 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



outer, one flat or concave, the other spurred at the base, the 

 two inner clawed and keeled, fruit round, one-seeded. 



F. parviflora. A small smooth branched plant with angular 

 stem, leaves pinnatifid, segments flat, flowers in racemes 

 whitish or rose-coloured, tips of petals cohering, fruit smooth. 

 Pitpdtra. 



Deccan and Khandeish. " A weed of cultivation." H. 



This species is rare in England, but differs very little from the 

 common English fumitory (F. officinalis) except by its smaller size. 

 Lear when mad went 



" Crowned with rank fumitor, and furrow weeds." 

 Corydalis has flowers of the same peculiar form. 



ORDER 9. CEUCIFER^. Cressworts. 



Herbs with radical and alternate leaves, without stipules ; 

 sepals 4, often enlarged at the base, petals 4, arranged cross- 

 wise ; stamens 6, of which two pairs are longer and one pair 

 shorter (this arrangement is called tetradynamous) ; disc with 

 4 glands opposite the sepals ; fruit a silique, or in some genera 

 indehiscent. 



This is a large and very well-defined order, having its name from 

 the appearance of a cross in the petals and stamens. The tetrady- 

 namous stamens and the peculiar fruit together distinguish it from 

 any other order. It mainly belongs to the temperate parts of the 

 world, and in England numbers of common weeds, and many common 

 culinary vegetables, belong to the order. But only one inconspicuous 

 species is found wild in W. India. 



CARDAMINB. Sepals equal at the base, petals entire, clawed, 

 silique linear. 



C. hirsuta. A small plant, slightly hairy; leaves pinnate 

 or pinnatifid, leaflets roundish ovate coarsely toothed, flowers 

 small, white or yellow, silique smooth, erect, tapering. 



This is the "hairy bitter cress" of England. H. has for it "all 

 temperate regions of India," and it is found at Bombay, Poona, 

 Mahableshwar and other places; but D. gave only "hills about 

 Belgaum," and G. has not got it, so it may perhaps have spread of 

 late years. 



" In the common small form the stamens are usually reduced to 

 4." Xentham. 



Dr. Cooke has C. subnmbellata at Mahableshwar, very like this. 



The following are the best-known species of this order 

 which are cultivated in W. India ; 

 Cheiranthus Gheiri. Wallflower. 



