Fumaria.) CRUCIFERZ. 217 
or spurred at the base, the two inner lateral similar, long-clawed, 
keeled, with usually cohering tips. Stamens diadelphous in antero- 
posterior bundles, each with a central 2-celled and two lateral 
1-celled anthers. Carpels 2, connate in a 1-celled ovary with usually 
only 1 parietal fertile placenta; style filiform, stigma entire or 
slightly lobed; ovules normally 1 near base of fertile placenta. 
Frwit a small globose indehiscent 1-seeded nutlet. 
61, Fumarra parvirtora Lamk.; F. I. iii. 217; F. B. 1. i. 128; 
E. D. F..728. 
In fields and gardens, not uncommon. 
A small branched annual weed with much-divided glaucous 
leaves. Hind. Pit-papra; Beng. Ban-salpha. 
Order X. CRUCIFERZ. 
Herbs, annual or perennial, rarely undershrubs; juice often 
pungent. Leaves radical in a rosette and cauline alternate ; 
stipules 0. Flowers in racemes, rarely solitary axillary or on 
scapes. Disk with 4 glands opposite the sepals, or 0. Sepals 4, 
free, imbricate, hypogynous, the lateral pair opposite the placentas 
often the larger, saccate. Petals 4, free, hypogynous, set cross-wise. 
Stamens 6, rarely 2 or 1, or many ; 2-seriate, outer whorl of 2 oppo- 
amphitropous with raphe ventral. Fruit a 2-celled 2-valv 
capsule with deciduous valves and persistent replum and placentas, 
or transversely jointed or indehiscent. Seeds small, albumen 0;_ 
cotyledons. 
*Pods dehiscing :—[p. 218] 
tPods narrow, long :—[p. 218] 
Pods bearing seeds and dehiscing throughout their length ;. sepals 
not pouched at the base; cotyledons accumbent :—[p- 218) 
