2. Ovary with 3 or more ovules. Fruits, at least some of them, dehiscent, 3-or more-seeded.--Species 9. South and North Africa and high mountains of Central Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including _Cysticapnos_ Adans.) =Corydalis= DC. Ovary with 1-2 ovules. Fruit indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. Seeds not appendaged. 3 3. Ovary with 2 ovules. Fruit 2-seeded, compressed, with 3 nerves on each side. Leaves fleshy.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Sarcocapnos= DC. Ovary with 1 ovule. Fruit 1-seeded, compressed but 1-nerved on each side, or triquetrous, or globular. 4 4. Fruit triquetrous, pendulous. Superior petal helmet-shaped, inferior spoon-shaped, lateral ones clawed. Stem climbing.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Plate 52.) =Trigonocapnos= Schlecht. Fruit globular or compressed, erect.--Species 15. North, South, and East Africa; also naturalized in West Africa and the Mascarene Islands. “Fumitory.” (Including _Discocapnos_ Cham. & Schlechtend. and _Platycapnos_ Bernh.) =Fumaria= L. 5. Stamens 4. Petals 3-cleft. Placentas and styles 2. Juice not milky.--Species 7. North Africa. Some are used as ornamental plants. [Subfamily =HYPECOIDEAE=.] =Hypecoum= L. Stamens numerous. [Subfamily =PAPAVEROIDEAE=.] 6 6. Juice not milky. Flowers solitary. Petals yellow. Placentas 2. Stigma subsessile, with 4 spreading lobes. Fruit linear, 10-ribbed, 1-celled, 2-valved to the base. Seeds unappendaged.--Species 1. Naturalized in the Canary Islands. Fodder-plant. [Tribe ESCHSCHOLTZIEAE.] =Hunnemannia= Sweet Juice milky. Placentas 4 or more, more rarely 2, but then stigmas or stigma-lobes only 2, or at least partly erect. 7 7. Stigmas (or style-branches) 2, alternating with the 2 placentas and borne upon a short, but distinct style. Ovary and fruit linear. Seeds appendaged. Flowers in umbels, yellow. Juice reddish-yellow.--Species 1. North-west Africa. Poisonous and used medicinally. “Celandine.” [Tribe CHELIDONIEAE.] =Chelidonium= L. Stigmas (or style-branches) 3 or more, rarely 2, as many as and opposite to the placentas or more numerous, sessile or nearly so. [Tribe PAPAVEREAE.] 8 8. Fruit linear, dehiscing to the base. Placentas, stigmas, and fruit-valves 2-4. Juice yellow. 9 Fruit oblong, ovoid, or globular, dehiscing near the top only or indehiscent. Placentas, stigmas, and fruit-valves 4-16. 10 9. Petals yellow or reddish-yellow, twisted in the bud. Style ending in 2 erect and 2 spreading lobes. Fruit with a false partition.--Species 2. North Africa and Cape Verde Islands. Used as ornamental or medicinal plants; the seeds yield oil. =Glaucium= Juss. Petals violet or red, crumpled in the bud. Style ending in 2-4 connivent lobes. Fruit 1-celled.--Species 4. North Africa. Used as ornamental plants. =Roemeria= Medik.