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elongata. Folia longiuscule petiolata, cum petiolo pollicaria, 
crassiuscula, ita ut bractea papillosa, semel trisecta et pinnati- 
secta, lobis oblongo-spathulatis apice seta longiuscula instructis. 
Racemi congesti, pauciflori, bracteis flabellato-multifidis cilio- 
latis flores fere aquantibus, lobis apice longe 1-setosis. Flores 
flavi, breviter pedicellati, circiter 5 lineas longi; sepala minuta, 
auriculiformia, paucilobulata; petalum inferius anguste coch- 
leariforme, petala lateralia spathulata, cum superiore alte con- 
nata; calcar latum, obtusum, quam lamina longius ; adelphiw 
staminum infra medium subite dilatate, ovarium amplectentes ; 
ovarium glabrum, oblongum, 4-ovulatum, stylo stamina quanti, 
stigmate trilobato. Capsula ellipsoidea, seminibus rotundato- 
reniformibus nigris nitidis. 
Flowers yellow. Water-logged soil in valley at. 15,500 ft. 
In spite of the differences indicated, further specimens may 
prove this to be a form of C. mucronifera, Maxim. 
12. Corydalis Hendersonii, Hems/. 
Ad C. tibeticam, Hook. f. et Thoms. accedit, differt habitu foliis 
trisectis, bracteis amplis flabellatis, calcari deorsum attenuato. 
Herba perennis, robusta, 2-3 poll. alta, glabra, radice crassa 
fusiformi, caule simplici vel pauciramoso densissime foliifero basi 
sepe foliis vetustis vestito. Folia crassiuscula, bipinnatisecta, vel 
semel trisecta simul bipinnatisecta, 1-14 poll. longa, segmentis 
brevissimis obtusis vel minute mucroniferis ; petiolus tenuis, 
dilatatus, laminam g#quans vel superans. Racemi valde abbre- 
viati, pauciflori, bracteis amplis flabellato-multifidis ciliolatis 
flores fere equantibus. Flores flavi, breviter pedicellati, circiter 
9 lineas longi; sepala minutissima, paucidenticulata, diu persis- 
tentia ; petalum inferius cochleariforme, petalum superius 
naviculare, petala lateralia spatulata, cum superiore breviter 
connata, dorso longitudinaliter alata; calcar fere rectum, lami- 
nam equans ; adelphie staminum deorsum vix dilatatw, basi 
ecaudate, ovarium glabrum, oblongum, circiter 10-ovulatum, 
stylo elongato stamina wquanti. Capsula ignota. 
Flowers yellow. Sandy gravelly svil in valleys at 17,600 ft. 
This species was also collected in Yarkand by Dr. G. 
Henderson, after whom I have named it, in 1870. In the list of 
plants published in his book ‘Lahore to Yarkand,’ it is named 
C. tibetica, Hook. f. et Thoms., though the specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium is queried. It was only met with just beyond the 
