Tab. 694(5. 

 CORYDALIS Ledebouriana. 



Native of Central Asia. 



Nat. Old. Papaverace^e. — Tribe Fumarie.£:. 

 Genus Corydalis, DC; (Bentk. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 55) 



Corydalis (Bulbocapnos) Ledebouriana ; glaberrinia, glauca, radice tnberosa, 

 caule simplici medio 2-3-ibliato, foliia irregulariter ternatira v. biternatiui 

 sectis se^mentis obovatis obovato-oblongisve apice rotundatis v. mucronnlatis 

 in petiolum brevem angustatis nervis obscuris, racemo multifloro, bracteia 

 magnis ellipticis flores srepe sequantibus, sepalis minimis lobatis, petalia 

 brunmo-purpureis superiore vix carinato, inf'eriore concavo decurvo, calcare 

 magno flore multo longiore robusto recto v. recurvo obtuso, capsula elliptica 

 acuta. 



C. Ledebouriana, Ear. and Kiril. Enum. Plant. Alt. No. 64, and En. Plant. 

 Songar. No. 56; Ledeb. El. Ross. vol. i. p. 715 ; Regel Oartenfl. vol. xxviii. 

 (1879), p. 225, t. 981. 



The exploring expeditions sent by the Russian Govern- 

 ment into Central Asia have richly endowed the gardens of 

 Europe with many new and rare hardy plants ; and no 

 individual explorer has done so much in this respect as 

 Dr. Albert von Regel, the distinguished son of a dis- 

 tinguished father, whose name has long been an honoured 

 one in Horticultural circles. From the Himalaya to 

 Central Siberia the genus Corydalis is at home ; upwards 

 of twenty-five species are known to inhabit the higher 

 regions of the Indian Alps, and but one, C. sibirica, crosses 

 that range to the southward, occurring on the Khasia 

 Mountains in Bast Bengal. As many species, almost all 

 except the above-mentioned G. sibirica, different from the 

 Himalayan, are described in Ledebour's " Flora Rossica," 

 published in 1842, and many must have been discovered 

 since in the same regions; so that, including the European 

 and American species, the genus Corydalis probably numbers 

 nearly one hundred species. 



C. Ledebouriana was discovered by Karelin and Kiriloff 

 in Soongaria, an elevated district of North- Eastern 



jui.y 1st, 1887. 



