36 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Fumaria, 



parietal, 2 or more, amphitropous. Fruit an indehiscent 1-seeded 

 nut, or a 2-valved many-seeded capsule. Seeds albuminous, with 

 a minute embryo. 



Fumaria, Linn. 



Annual branched sarmentose herbs. Leaves finely divided. 

 Flowers small, white or pink, with purple tips to the petals, in 

 terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Outer anterior petal flat, 

 posterior gibbous at the base. Stamens diadelphous, the posterior 

 bundle with a spur inside the base of the posterior petal. Ovary 

 1-celled ; style filiform ; ovules 2 on 2 placentas. Fruit indehis- 

 cent, globose, 1-seeded. 



FUMARIA PARVIFLORA, Lam. ; W. & A. 18. 



A diffuse pale green herb; leaf-segments very narrow; flowers 



15-'3 in. long ; fruit slightly pointed even when ripe. 



A weed of cultivation, chiefly at somewhat high elevations, as 



on the Mysore plateau and in the E. Nilgiris. 



Family X. CRUCIFERAE. 



Herbs, rarely a little woody at the base, with watery some- 

 times pungent juice. Leaves alternate or radical, exstipulate. 

 Flowers usually racemed rarely solitary, terminal or axillary. 

 Sepals 4, 2 often larger and saccate at the base, imbricate. Petals 

 4, hypogynous, imbricate. Stamens 6, rarely fewer or many, 

 4 inner longer, in opposite pairs. Disk with 4 glands opposite the 

 sepals. Ovary 2- celled, the division formed by a membrane con- 

 necting the placentas, or 1-celled, or with many superposed cells ; 

 style short or ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Ovules many, 2-seriate 

 on the 2 parietal placentas, or rarely 1 or 2 erect. Fruit either 

 2-celled, the 2 valves deciduous and leaving the seeds on the per- 

 sistent dissepiment or indehiscent or transversely jointed. Seeds 

 small ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex or longitudinally bent 

 or folded ; radicle turned over the back of the cotyledon (incum- 

 bent) or along its side (accumbent). 



Pods linear and dehiscent : 



Pods dehiscing and bearing seeds throughout their whole length ; 

 sepals not pouched ; cotyledons accumbent : 



Pods cylindric seeds globose, 2-seriate or irregularly 1-seriate 



1. Nasturtium. 



