216 BENGAL PLANTS. 
2-seriate, caducous. Stamens numerous. Carpels united 3 
1-celled ovary with 3-6 parietal placentas; style distinct, 
connate, lobes subradiating alternate with placentas, 
line of union of adjacent stigmas suberect. Fruit a lor 
- pointed capsule, opening about one-fourth of its lent 
angular valves alternate with the placentas and 7 ” 
sa lobes. 
. ARGEMONE MEXICANA Linn.; F. I. ii. 571; F. B. Li 
E. D. M. 1351. 
Everywhers:i in waste places. 
A prickly annual with yellow juice, shee flowers @ 
prickly leaves with white veins. Beng. Bara shil-k 
Santal. Gokhula janum 
Order IX. FUMARIACEZ. 
Herbs, annual or perennial ; juice watery. Leaves alte 
opposite, usually much divided ; iligales 0. ogi pak 
i k 
or both gibbous or spurred, inner always like each 
usually very unlike outer, narrower, erect with often cohering 
tamens rarely 4, free, opposite the petals, usually diadelp 
2 phalanges opposite the outer r petals, each phalanx with a¢ 
2- aehed 
ovul * amphitropous, 1-2-seria 
very rarely solitary on each or on only one 2 
Fruit a 2-valved many- or few-seeded capsule, or ind 
l-seeded, rarely 2-seeded, and nut-like. Seed. small, 
siphictetas albumen fleshy ; embryo minute 
38. Fumaria Linn. 
Annual, rarely perennial, usually branched, often sc” 
herbs ; leaves much divided, wi w segments. 
small in ‘iain or leaf-oppohba racemes, irregular, 
i » small, scale-like, caducous. Petals 4 
2-seriate, the 2 outer dissimilar, anterior concave posterior 
