Tas. 7939. 
CORYDALIS Witsont. 
Native of Central China. 
Nat. Ord. Fumartacea.—Tribe Fumarrex. 
Genus Corypatis, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 55.) 
Corypauis Wilsoni; acaulis, glaberrima, foliis 3-5-pollicaribus patentibus 
flaccidis pinnatis petiolo breviusculo rhacheque gracilibus, pinnis utrinque 
4-6 $-1-pollicaribus sessilibus petiolulatisve ovato-oblongis pinnatifido- 
lobatis lobis apice obtusis v. rotundatis enerviis glauco-viridibus, pedun- 
culo brevi robusto, racemo 4-5-pollicari laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis 
pedicellis 3-4 poll. longis brevioribus, floribus pollicaribus aureis, sepalis 
4 poll. longis ovatis caudato-acuminatis brunneis, petalis exterioribus 
acuminatis superiore kasi in calear 3 poll. longum incurvum apice 
rotundatum leviter compressum producto inferioris disco excavato 
marginibus recurvis, interioribus stipitatis obovato-spathulatis costa 
crassa exserta, ovario lineari stigmate 2-cruri cruribus incurvis apice 
2-lobis, capsula lineari arcuata.—/. D. H. : 
C. Wilsoni, V.2. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. ii. p. 123. 
Corydalis Wilsont was raised by Messrs. James Veitch 
& Sons from seed sent home by their very successful 
collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, after whom it is named. 
They at first cultivated it in a greenhouse, where it 
flowered in March of last year, and one of the plants so 
raised is represented in our plate. The plant in question 
was presented to Kew, and in May it was turned out in 
the Rock Garden, where it has flourished and flowered 
throughout the summer and autumn, and in the middle of 
December, as Mr. Watson pointed out to us, it was still 
flowering under the shelter of an overhanging rock. ‘he 
dimensions of the plant were considerably beyond its 
condition when Miss Smith made the drawing. Although 
the plant was past flowering, the leaves were still green 
at the end of the first week in January. 
In reply to inquiries, Messrs. Veitch state that the 
habitat of Corydalis Wilsoni is given in Wilson’s. notes 
as: “dry rocks at 10,000 ft., Fang”; which is in the 
Province of Hupeh. Its hardiness, in so far as temperature 
is concerned, is therefore unquestionable. Whether it will 
bear our often mild, humid winters, time will prove. 
Frpruary Ist, 1904, 
