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ORDER IX. FUMARIACE^E. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; juice watery. Leaves usually divided, seg- 

 ments not jointed. Flowers small, racemed, irregular, hermaphrodite. ^ 

 2, small, scale-like, deciduous. Petals 4, in usually very dissimilar pairs ; 

 2 outer larger, one or both gibbous or spurred ; 2 inner smaller, erect, tips 

 often coherent. Stamens 6, in 2 bundles (4, free in Hypecoum\ opposite 

 the outer petals ; anther of central stamen in each bundle 2-celled, of lateral 

 1 -celled. Ovary 1 -celled ; style long or short, stigma obtuse or lobed ; 

 ovules 2 or more, amphitropous, parietal. Fruit a 2-valved, many-seeded 

 capsule, or an indehiscent 1- seeded nut. Seeds albuminous, raphe some- 

 times appendaged ; embryo minute. DISTRLB. Genera 7; species about 

 100, natives of the temp, and warm regions of the N. hemisphere. 



Stamens 4, free 1. HYPECOUM. 



Stamens 6, diadelphous. 



Outer petals both spurred ; capsule many-seeded 2. DICENTRA. 



One outer petal spurred ; capsule many-seeded 3. CORYDALIS. 



One outer petal spurred; fruit iudehisceut, nut 1-seeded ... 4. FUMAIUA. 



1. HYPECOUM, Tournefort. 



Low annual glaucous herbs. Leaves pinnatisect. Flowers yellow white 

 or purplish. Sepals 2, small. Petal* 1, spreading, 2 outer flat or slightly 

 concave, obovate, obtuse or obtusely 3-toothed ; -2 inner 3-lobed, midlobe 

 concave. /6'/v////r//.s 4, tree, opposite the petals, with sometimes a stalked 

 gland at the base of each ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-celled, septate within ; 

 style short, stigmas 2, glandular at the tips; ovules many, on 2 parietal 

 placentas, ('<<i>*nli slender, transversely septate within, breaking up into 

 joints or longitudinally 2-valved. tab compressed* DISTRLB. {Species 4-5 ; 

 natives of the Mediterranean region and temperate Asia. 



1. K. procumbens, Linn.; leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, flowers yellow, 

 outer petals 3-lobed, midlobe of inner toothed or hmbriate. 21. /. 

 Fl. Ind. 275. 



Drier parts of the PUNJAUB, Feshawur, Vicary ; Mobltan, Edgeworth; Salt Kange, 

 Flfinhnj, >S;c. DISTRIB. W. Asia, Mediterranean region. 



Stems many, procumbent, 3-V2 in., slender. Leaves 2-4 in., segments linear or oblong, 

 cut; upper sessile, whorled. Flowers few, in. diam., pedicelk'd. Inner petal* with 

 the lateral srirmrnts linear-oblong, obtuse, midlobe entire ivtuse or 2-fid. Fruit l^-2 

 in., & in. broad, curved, subcompressed, at length breaking up into 1-seeded joints. 



2. H. leptocarpum, II. / & T. Fl. Ind. 270 ; leaves 2-pinnatisect, 

 flowers pale purple, outer petals obtuse, midlobe of inner oblong cucullate. 



Sandy soil in Wiisi TIBET, alt. 9-12,000 ft., T. T.; interior of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA, 

 alt. 12-14,000 ft., H.f. 



Stems many, procumbent, 6-12 in., much branched. Leaves many, 2-4 in., pinnse 

 4 in., distant ; pinnules oblong, sharply cut ; uppermost linear, whorled. Flowers ^-^ in. 

 diam., pedicels slender. Inner petals lobed almost to the middle. Fruit \ in., very 

 slender, breaking up into 1-seeded joints. 



2. DICENTRA, Borkhaus. 



Glabrous, perennial rooted, climbing, slender herbs. Leaves decompound, 

 petiole ending in a branched tendril. Flowers yellow or purple, in leaf-opposed 



