FuMAEiA.] CBUCIFEB^. 37 



A robust hert 1-2 ft. high; stem often almost woody below, simple or 

 sparingly branched. Leaves 3-7 in. long, sessile, | amplexicaul, sinuate- 

 pinnatifid, glaucous, white-spotted, prickly. Flowers 1-3 in. in diam., 

 sessile or subsessile, yellow or rarely white. Sepals horned at the top 

 and bristle-pointed. Ga'psule |-li in. long, elliptic or oblong, bristly. 



A common weed on waste ground. Distrib. : Throughout India. 

 Introduced from America within historic times. It flowers during the 

 cold season. The juice and the oil yielded by the seeds are used medici- 

 nally ; the oil is also valued for painting purposes, 



3. FUMARIA. Linn. ; Fl. Brit, Ind, i. 127. 



Herbs, mostly annual, usually branched, often scandent. Leaves 

 finely divided ; segments narrow. Flowers small, in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes. Sepals 2, small. Petals erect or conniving, 2 

 outer dissimilar ; anterior flat or concave ; posterior gibbous or spurred 

 at the base ; 2 inner narrow, cohering by their tips, winged or keeled 

 at the back. Stamens 6, in two bundles opposite the outer petal, one 

 filament usually spurred ; central anther of each bundle 2-celled, 

 lateral l-celled. Ovary 1-celled ; style slender ; stigma entire or 

 shortly lobed ; ovules 2, on 2 placentas. Fruit indehiscent, globose. 



F. parviflora, Lamh. Encycl. ii, 567, sub.-sp. Vaillantii, Lois 

 (sp.); F.B.I, i, 128. F, parviflora, Eoarb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 217; W. ,^ A. 

 Prod. 18 ; Boyle III. 16 ; D. Sf G. Bomb. Fl. 7 ; Watt E. D. (Fumitory). 



A pale-green diffuse much-branched herb. Leaf-segments flat. Racemes 

 1-2 in., lax-flowered. Flowers 5-^ in.; pedicels exceeding the bracts. 

 /SepaZs lanceolate, much smaller than the! corolla- tube. Petals whitish 

 or rose-coloured with purple tips. Fruit globose, rugose when dry, 

 rounded at the top and with 2 pits. 



Common throughout the area as a weed of cultivation, flowering and 

 fruiting during the cold season. Distbib. : Over the greater part of 

 India, ascending to 8,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in temp, regions of 

 the Old World, The plant is used as a remedy for fever and ague. 



IX-CRUCIFERJE. 



Hebbs, rarely undershrubs, with watery and often pungent sap. 

 Leaves cauline and radical, the latter generally forming a rosette ; 

 cauline alternate, exstipulate. Flowers usually in corymbs or 

 racemes. Sepals 4, free, imbricate, deciduous, the 2 lateral often 

 saccate at the base. Petals 4i, free, hypogynous, placed crosswise, 

 imbricate, sometimes absent. Stamens usually 6, the 2 outer opposite 

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



