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FUMARIA eximia. 
Lyon's new Fumitory. 
DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 
FUMARIA. Cal. minimus. Pet. inequalia & irregularia, quo- 
rum 1 vel 2 basi calcaratum. Fil. 2, basi latiora & approximata, singula 
triantherifera, anthera media biloculari, lateralibus forsan unilocularibus. — 
Stylus brevissimus ; stigma orbiculatum bisulcum. Siliqua monosperma 
_ brevis non dehiscens, aut polysperma longior bivalvis, aut capsularis 
globosa inflata polysperma trivalvis. Folia multipartita, interdim bi- 
pinnata aut’ biternata, racheos apice nonnunquam cirrhoso ; flores spi- 
cati terminales. Jussieu. gen. 237. 
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i Div. Corollis bicalcaratis. 
F. eximia, foliis decompositis; racemo composito, racemulis bracteatis, | 
pendulo-cymosis; corolla infra cordata, lobis posticis brevissimis ex- _ 
trorstim. lato-rotundatis, introrsim conniventibus ; fatice bilobo-apicu- 
lata; stigmate in laminam cruciato-quadratam bimucronatam com- 
presso. i 
Folia levia, bipinnata foliolis oblongis pinnatifidis, laciniis acutulis. Caulis 
haud rar ramosus. Racemus multiflorus, compositus; racemuli plurimi, 
cymost, sparst, sepé tteriim divisi ; pedicelli filjformes, laxi, flore pendulo 
triplo breviores, bast bibracteati. Corolla rosea, subuncialis, bilabiata ; labia - 
exacté equalia, divaricata, ovali-lanceolata, in concavo disco atropurpurea ; 
faux clausa, atropurpurea, terminata lobulo bifido, lateribus alatis. Stylus 
directus: stigma lamina peripherice cartilaginea, erecta, quadricornis vel 
quadrata et utringue exteriis levitér indentata. f 
A species of which we have not been able to trace any 
account. It comes very close to the siberian spectabilis, 
especially in regard to the corolla; but there the raceme is 
simple and the pedicles are without bractes. Perhaps other 
differences may exist; for the latter has not yet reached 
our gardens, and is only known to us by a slight descrip- 
tion and the figure in Ameenitates academice ; unless in- 
deed a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium from Nootka 
Sound should prove to be the same, which we suspect is 
the fact. 
Formosa is the nearest to evimia of any species cultivated 
in this country ; but in that the lobes at the base of the 
corolla are longer and narrower, and not, as here, rounded — 
and prominent at the edge; neither is the apex of the faux 
two-lobed, nor the stigma four-cornered, but has only two 
