426 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANT'S. 
anthers, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, or partly sterile; all 
are provided with a filament tapering at the apex and dilated at the 
Peganum Harmala. 

Via. 506. Fie. 507. Fie. 508. 
Long. sect, of flower (2). Diagram. Dehiscent fruit (3). 
base. Within their insertion, a slight glandular disk is seen sur- 
rounding the short foot of the two- or three-celled ovary, surmounted 
by an erect, twisted style, with two or 
Peganum Harmata. three prominent stigmatiferous awns. In 
the internal angle of each cell a placenta 
is seen supporting an indefinite number 
of oblique anatropous ovules.’ The fruit, 
accompanied by the persistent calyx, is a 
Ny! loculicidal capsule, with two or three 
Fie. 509. 16,510. valves, and contains angular seeds whose 
Seed (5). Long. sect. of seed. coats cover a fleshy albumen, surrounding 
in its turn a curved embryo. In P. crith- 
mifolium, generically separated under the name of MJalacocarpus, 
the two-celled fruit is baccate. The other characters are, however, 
those of three other species of the genus which are ramified, glabrous, 
pubescent herbs, inodorous and not punctuate, with alternate leaves, 
entire or irregularly pinnatifid, with two lateral, slender, unequal 
stipules,’ and solitary, leaf-opposed,® pedunculate flowers. They are 


1 They have a double coat. 4 These are perhaps the inferior lobes of the 
? Rerz, Obs., ii. 34 (nee GEORG.). — P. leaf, but little developed. 
Harmala, B crithmifolium DC.— Bizz, Fl. 5 The flowers have doubtless here, as in 
Taur-cauc., i. 364. other species of Zygophyllum, been drawn upon 
3 Lrscx. & Mny., Ind. Sem. Hort, Petrop., the axis above their axile leaf. 
ix. 78.—Watp., Rep., v. 394. 
