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[ Cofydalis, 



form, stigmas 2 minute or dilated ; ovules 2 or more, on 2 parietal placentas, 

 Caj:>sule ovoid oblong elliptic or linear, valves 2 membranous leaving tne 

 seed-bearing placentas attached to the style. Seeds small, beaked, arU 

 fleshy or 0.— Distkib. Species about 70, temp. European and Asiatic, witn 

 a few N. American and Cape species. 



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Sect. I. Erect leafy branched fibrous-rooted herbs. Capsule narrow linear.- 



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1. C. ophlocarpa, ff. /. & T. Fl Ind. 259 ; leaves 2-pinnati3ect, 

 racemes lax many-flowered terminal and leaf-opposed, posticous petal equal- 

 ling or exceeding the broad obtuse spur tip flat obcordate, anticous Imear 

 concave, capsule tortuous. . -^ ^ 



Moist valleys of the Sikkim-Himalaya, alt. 9000 ft., M.f. ^ t 



Stem 2-3 It., slender, branched. Leaves 4-8 in., glaucous beneath, pinnse 1~2 in., 

 pinnules obovate-obiong, segments obtuse, mucronate, glaucous beneath. Flowers jellow, 

 bracts minute, subulate, entire. Sepals orbicular, fimbriate. Fosticous petal cnrv^y 

 lateral united below the tip. Style slender, equalling the raany-ovuled ovary. C(t£sule 

 1 in. Seeds small, blacky shining, punctate ; funicle thickened. 



2. C. flaccida, H.f. d: T, Fl. Ind. 260; tall, leaves 3-4-pinnatisect, 

 racemes terminal and axillary many-flowered, posticous petal twice a? long 

 as the curved conical spur, tip spathulate 2-lobed, pod straight. 



Moist valleys of the Sikkim-Himalaya, alt. 11-12,000 ft., ff. f. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout, erect, branched. Leaves 6-12 in., membranous; pinnae 2 m- 1 

 pinnules subsei-sile, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, not glaucous beneath ; looes roundea, 

 apicnlate. Flowers ^-J in. long, brown-purple; racemes 2-6 in. ; lower bracts leatyt 

 median cut or lobed, upper narrow. Sepals ovate, acute, toothed. Posticous p^ta 

 pluno^ionvex, tip rounded winged. Style slender, twice as long as the hnear ovarj. 

 Capsule 1-1 1 in., linear. * '; 



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^ 3, C. leptocarpa, H. / <t T. FL Ind. 260 ; diff'use, leaves 2-ternateiy 

 pinnatisect, racemes long-peduncled 2-7 flowered leaf-opposed, posticons 

 petal concave acuminate much shorter than the slender curved spur, po^ 

 erect straight torulose. 



Eastern Himalaya, in Bhotan, Griffith; Sikkim, alt. 8000 ft., -ff.^. , 



Stem 6-12 in., weak, branched, decumbent. Leaves 3-6 in., long-petioled, na^m- 



branous, segments broadly obovate, deeply cut, lobes rounded, glaucous or not ^^^f^^/' 



Flowers 1-1 J in. bmg, dull purple; bracts obovate or oblong-cuneate, cut. ^W^. 



minute, oblong, fimbriate. Posticous petal concave, narrow oblong, tip 



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ani icons spathulate, acuminate. Style slender, half as long as the linear ovary. ^"K 

 sule 1-1 4 in., narrow linear. Setd$ 1 -seriate, black, shining, smooth; aril broaa, 

 2-lobed. 



Sect. II. Root fibrous. Pod short, elliptic obovate lanceolate or subglO- 

 bose. Seeds 2-seriate. 



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*Root bulbous, or rootstock elongate, stem simple. Radical leaves feW 

 or 0; cauline opposite alternate or w^horled. Racemes undivided 



4. C. rutaefolia, Sibth. Flor. Grcec. t. 667 ; leaves opposite or ^^-^'^^^.j 

 2-3-ternately cut, raceme erect 6-12-flowered, bracts entire, outer pet^s^^ 

 keeled equalling or shorter than the inflated obtuse spur. H.f. dc T. -^J-/'*^' 

 262. C. diphylla, WaU. Cat. 1430; Tent. Fl Nep. 54; C. pauciflora, -F^^^- 

 %n Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 30. C. longipes, Dm Prodr. 198 {not of -^^•'* 





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