the next by a slender thread. These differences are so 
great that it is to be regretted that Siebold and Zuccarini’s 
name of heterocarpa has not priority. The seeds present 
most puzzling variations; they are usually opaque, and 
clothed with minute asperities, but in some specimens their 
faces are smooth and polished, and in others the asperities 
are replaced by impressed dots on the side and back, exactly 
as in some specimens of the North American CV. aurea, 
Willd., with which Regel has united the East Asiatic forms 
as varieties. There is asecond Japanese Corydalis of which 
very little is known, and which may prove to be another 
form of this, the C. racemosa, Pers. (Fumaria racemosa, 
Thunb.), which is figured as having a much smaller flower 
and small bag-like spur. There are in the Kew Herbarium 
specimens conforming to this character in which the pod is 
narrow and sword-shaped, and the seeds not half the size 
and having a few impressed dots only. It may be alluded 
to as a singular fact that the widely-spread genus Fumaria 
has not hitherto been found in Japan. 
C. pallida was raised from seeds collected in the Kow-lun 
Peninsula of China, north of the Canton River, and nearly 
opposite to Hong Kong, by Mr. Ford, Superintendent of 
the Botanical Gardens of the latter Island; these were 
received in September, 1884, and flowered in the herbaceous 
department in March of the present year. 
Descr. A succulent perennial (Maxim.) herb, twelve to 
eighteen inches high, with leafy terete pale reddish-brown 
stem and tripinnatisect leaves rather glaucous beneath. 
Leaflets very variable, oblong obovate or cuneate, variously 
cut into broad or narrow obtuse lobes. Racemes one to five 
inches long, many-fid.; bracts longer than the pedicel, 
green, subulate or lanceolate, or the lower broader and 
toothed. Sepals very small, triangular-ovate. Corolla one 
inch long, golden yellow, with a pale brown patch towards 
the obtuse tip of the dorsal petal, which is oblong, obtuse, 
and produced behind into an obtuse stout spur half its own 
length. Pod curved, torulose, with a long filiform style 
and stigma of two divaricating lobulate arms. Seeds more 
or less clothed with asperities or punctate, smaller than the 
dimidiate aril.—J. D. H,. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, sepal; 3, pistil ; 4, capsule ; 5, seeds:—all but fig. 4 enlarged. 
