IV. NYMPH^ACEiE. 



and flowers. Leaves on long, terete petioles, cordate. Flowers on simple 

 peduncles. — 1 South African species, N. stellata, with blue or rarely white, 

 sweet-scented flowers, standing out of the water. It is found in rivers and 

 ponds throughout South Africa. 



Order V. PAPAVERACE^. 



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 placentae ; ovules many. Capsule many-seeded. 

 — The Poppy family. Herbs, with coloured, narcotic juices. 



1. PAP AVER, Linn. 



Ovary globose or obovoid, crowned with 4-20 radiating, li- 

 near, sessile stigmas. Capsule oblong, dry, opening by small 

 pores under the stigmas ; placentae projecting into the cavity, 

 and dividing it into several incomplete chambers. Seeds very 

 numerous. — Fl. Cap. i.p. 15. 



1 South African species, P. aciileaticm, Th. ; the Wild Poppy. Eadical 

 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. 



Order YI. FUMARIACE^. 



Flowers bisexual. Sepals 2, minute, scale-like. Petals 4, 

 unequal, connivent in pairs, one or both of the outer pair 

 spurred or saccate at base. Stamens 6, diadelphous, 3 in each 

 parcel. — Grlabrous, often glaucous, twining herbs, with much- 

 di\'ided leaves, and small, purple white or yellow, racemose 

 flowers. 



Fruit many-seeded, capsular. 



Capsule bladder-like, subglobose 1. Ctsticapnos. 



Capsule lanceolate, compressed 2. Corydalis. 



Fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent. 



Fruit flattened, orbicular 3. Discocapxos. 



Fruit subglobose, not flattened 4. Fumakia. 



1. CYSTICAPNOS, Boerh. 



Capsule 2-valved, bladdery ; epicarp inflated, spongy within ; 

 endocarp delicately membranous, supported by slender fila- 

 ments in the centre of the cavity, and bearing at the margins 

 of the valves many-seeded placenta). Seeds compressed, 

 beaked. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 16. 



