b TI. FUMAKIACE^. 



Endemic. C. Africana, the only species, is frequent near Capetown; 

 also at Stellenbosch and Swellendara. 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. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 16. 



3 South African species, all annuals, with climbing stems and multifid 

 leaves. 



3. DISCOCAPNOS, Ch. and Sclil. 



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, etc. 

 It is like the common " Fumitoi^y," but differs in its flattened fruit. 



4. FUMARIA, 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. 



Order VII. CEUCIFER^. 



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 placentae. Fruit a long pod (siliqua) or a short one 

 (silicula). 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, Kadishes, Horseradish etc., 

 and garden flowers, such as Stocks, AVallflowers, etc., belong 

 to this Order. 



A. SiLiQUOS.E. Fruit-pod several times as long as 

 broad. 

 * Pod with flat or flatfish valves. 

 Calyx equal at base (not spurred). 



Seeds with flat, accumbent cotyledons (0 = ). 

 Pod linear-elongate, narrow ; valves not 



elastic 4. Akabis. 



Pod acute at each end ; valves bursting with 



elasticity 5. Cardamine. 



Seeds with long, twice-folded cotyledons (0 |j |1 ||). 



Pod Hnear or beaded 13. Heliophila. 



Calyx 2-spun'ed at base 12. Chamira. 



** Pod 2-edged or 4-angled, with keeled valves . . 3. Barbakea. 



