273 FLORA INDICA. [Fumariacea. 



Folia circumseriptione lineari-oblonga. Pinmila 2-5-jug8e, sparsfE, f-f poll, latse, 

 varie crenato-lobatse, rarias iotegerrimBe, basi sa^pius cordatte. Uacemi breves, den- 

 siflori. Pedicelli brevissimi. Bractem floribus J breviores, patentes, membranaceae, 

 angaste subulatae. Mores fere recti v. calcare et apicibus petalorum sensim ascenden- 

 tibus, \ poll, longi, rosei. Sspala elougato-subulata, membranacea. Pefala exte- 

 riora apice concava, abrupte acuminata, iaterioribus apice emarginatis ; calcare brevi 

 inflato apice obtuso incurTO. Siliquis immaturse f poll, longae, stylo recto valido 

 termiuatse. — C. JlabellatcB affinis, differt prsecipue statura humiliore, foliorum pinnis 

 paucijugis, floribus majoribus roseis minus curvis, et bracteis elougatis subulatis. 



3. DICENTRA, Bork. 



Diclytra, JDC, Dactylicapnos, IFalL, Macrocapnos, Boyle. 



Sepala 3, deciilua. Petala 4, libera, anticum et posticum basi saocata 

 V. ealcarata. Stamina 6 ; filamenta libera v. basi distincta, superne co- 

 alita, iatermedio cujusvis synematis basi prooessu calcariformi aucto. 

 Ovula juxta placentas intervalvulares pluvima. Stigma bilobum. Cap- 

 sula siJiquosa v. baccata, valvis linearibus membranaceis v. ovatis car- 

 nosisque ; placentis seminibusque ut in Corydali. — Herbse glaberrima, 

 Indices, plerumque scandentes, radicibus perennantibus, caule tereti ramoso 

 gracili carnosulo, foliis oppositis decompositis, petiolis cirrhosis, pinnvdis 

 S-nerviis ovatis membranaceis, racemis oppositifoliis nutantibus. 



AH the Indian species of this pretty genus are scandent, whereas moSt of the 

 American and Siberian ones have bulbous roots, radical leaves, and the flowers on erect 

 scapes. There appears to us to be no grounds for dividing the genus, either on this 

 account or on the form and structure of the pods, as the same diiferences of habit 

 occur in Conjdalis, and there is a transition in the structure of the pod from the 

 membranous linear valves of the first section, to the more or less fleshy, broad, and 

 almost indehiscent ones of ■!). thalictrifolia. 



Sect. 1. — Siliqua linearis ; valvis membranaceis. 



1. D. tortilosa (H.f. et T.) ; corymbis 6-8-floris, siliquis anguste 

 linearibus torulosis, seminibus uniseriatis opacis granulatis basi stro- 

 phiolo cinctis. 



Hab. In montibus Khasia, graminosis alt. B-6000 ped., Griffith! — 

 (PI. Aug.) {v. V.) 



Rerba tenella, glaberrima, glauca, S-lO-pedahs. Caules scandentes, debiles, an- 

 gulati. Folia 3-4 poU. longa, e basi bi-tri-pinnatisecta, pinnis primariis longissime 

 petiolulatis, divaricatis ; pinnulis panels, remotis, -I— |- poU. longis, eUipticis, acutis 

 acuminatisve, membranaceis. Petiolus basi simplex, apice ssepius in ramos capillares 

 cirrhosos dichotome divisus. Pedimculi oppositifolii, i-3 poll, longi, graciles, apice 

 subumbellatim corymbosi. BractetB membranacese, lineares, pediceUos subaequantes, 

 raarginibus laceris. Pedicelli 6-10, ^— f poll, longi, graciles, stricti, superne subin- 

 crassati. Flores penduli, i poll, longi, aurei. Sepala liueari-snbulata, flore ^-^ 

 breviora, membranacea, margiue plus minusve lacera, basi dUatata fimbriata. Pe- 

 tala exteriora apice brcviter cucullata, abrupte acuminata, basi saccata, interiora in- 

 fra apicem iu rostrum breve bicuspidatum ultra petala exteriora breviter porrectum 

 coalita, lamina cujusvis brevi panduriformi, ungue capillari elongato libero. Sijne- 

 mata basi calcare brevi incurvo iustructa. Ovarium lineare, ovulis plurimis ; stylo 

 graciU ; stigmate subqnadrato, bilobo, basi utrinque in comu producto. Siliqua 

 li-2 poU. longa, cm-va, torulosa, in stylum vaUdum angustata. Semina 15-20, al- 

 terna, majuscula, basi strophiolo bilamellato iuclusa. 



