Tab. 7830. 

 corydalis thalicteifolia. 



Native of China. 



Nat. Ord. Fumariceje. — Tribe FuMAaiUiK. 

 Genus CoHYDALis, DC; {BentJi. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 65.) 



CoRTDAlis thalietrifolia ; herba perennis, flaccida, glaberrima, pallide viridis, 

 rhizomate lignoso, ramis suberectis pedalibus, foliis alternis longe petio- 

 latis pinnatisectis, pinnnlis 5-7 amplis oppositis paribus distautibus 

 petiolulatis cuneato-obovatis rarius oblongia eaepissime insequaliter 2-3- 

 aectie, eegmentis obtuse crenato-lobulatis, petiolo 2-4 poll, longo, racemis 

 oppositifoliis et terminalibus longe crassiuscule pedunculatis 3-6 poll, 

 longis laxe mnltifloris, bracteis ellipticis lanceolatisve acumiaatiB pedi- 

 cellis mnltoties longioribua herbaceis peraistentibus inferioribus fere 

 pollicaribus, floribus breviter pedicellatis 1 poll, longis pallide aureis, 

 sepalis minutis deltoideis, calcare limbo breviore leviter recurvo apice 

 rotundato, petalia eiterioribus subaequalibua ovato-lanceolatis subacutis 

 dorso medio breviter alatis, interioribns multo minoribus spathulatis 

 coBta marginibnsqne incrassatis, stigmate bicruri cruribus divaricatis 

 apice capitellatis, capsulis ad J poll, longis gracilibus falcatis teretibus 

 polyspermis, seminum strophiolo cupulari. 



C. thalietrifolia, Franch. in Journ. de Botanique^ vol. viii. (1894) p. 291 (non 

 Jameson). 



The mountain region of China promises to be even more 

 prolific in species of Corydalis than is the Himalaya, whence 

 fifty have been described. In Hemsley's enumeration of 

 Chinese plants, published in 1886, twenty species are in- 

 cluded, and others have since been published, or deposited 

 in the Kew Herbarium, bringing the number up to sixty. 



Another and very different G. thalietrifolia was published 

 as long ago as 1861. It is G. thalietrifolia, Jameson ex Kegel 

 in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv. II. 148, a Himalayan 

 plant, erroneously entered as Chinese in the Kew Index, 

 and it is a synonym of G. cornuta, Royle. It was over- 

 looked when the genus was described in the "Flora of 

 British India," and is not mentioned by Prain, in his 

 "Novitiae Indicss" (Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Ixv. II. 31), where some additional synonyms of 

 0. cornuta are given. 



Corydalis thalietrifolia is one of the largest Chinese species 

 of the genus, though far from rivalling some of its great 

 congeners in the Rocky Mts., which have no known allies 



April Ist, 1902. 



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