- Tan. 6826. 
CORYDALIS PALLIDA. 
- Native of China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Paraveracex.—Sub-order FUMARIER. 
Genus Corypatts, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 55.) 
CoRYDALIS (capnoides) racemosa; perennis, caule erecto v. rarius decumbente 
folioso, foliis deltoideo-ovatis tripinnatisectis segmentis polymorphis obcuneatis 
oblongis linearibusve lobatis dentatisve, racemis multifloris, bracteis pedicellis 
longioribus subulato-lanceolatis v. infimis dilatatis et serratis dentatisve, floribus 
flavis 4-1 poll. longis, sepalis minutis deltoideo-ovatis, petalo postico lineari- 
oblongo obtuso, calcare petalis multo breviore crasso obtuso, capsula polymorpha, 
stylo filiformi, seminibus scaberulis v. impresso-punctatis. 
C, pallida, Pers. l.c.; DC. Prodr. l.c.; Miquel l.c. 201; Maximov. in Bull. 
Acad. Imp. Sc. Nat. vol. x. p. 49 in adnot.; Franch et Sav. l.ec. vol. i. 
p- 31, ii. p. 27 
C. heterocarpa, Sieh. et Zuce. in Koen. Ba‘er. Akad. Wissensch. Klass. Math. 
Phys, vol. iv. 2, p. 173. 
C. speciosa, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 39. 
C. Wilfordii, Regel in Bot, Reis. Radde, vol. i. p. 148; Miguel l.c.; Franch. et 
Sav, l. ¢. vol. i. p. 30, ii. p. 275. 
—C. aurea, Willd., var. 8. speciosa, Regel Fi. Ussuri, p. 20; Bot. Reis. Radde, 
p- 145; Gartenfi. 1861, p. 373, t. 343; Franch. et Sav. l.c. p. 201 and 275, 
C. aurea, Willd., var. y. pallida, Regel Ul.c. 
Sopnorocapnos pallida, Turcz. in Flora (Bot. Zeit.), vol. xxx. p. 707. 
Foumarta pallida, Thunb, in Nov. Act. Petrop. vol. xii. p. 133, t. C. 
A widely diffused and very variable native of subtropical 
and temperate Hastern China and Japan, extending from 
the Canton River to the Amur on the mainland, and also 
inhabiting Formosa, Bonin, and the Japan Islands. Besides 
varying greatly, as so many of its congeners do, in size and 
number of flowers (one-third to two-thirds of an inch long), 
the capsules present extraordinary differences in length, 
from one-half to one and a half inches in breadth, from 
narrowly to broadly lanceolate (one-eighth to one third of 
an inch broad), straight or falcate, twisted or straight, and 
with one or two rows of seeds; and a more curious form 
than any other is one (of which the genus Sophorocapnos 
was constituted) in which the pods are like a string of 
beads, each bead containing a single seed, and attached to 
Juuy Ist, 1885. 
