68 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF __ [Fumariacea. 
about fifteen species of Corydalis have been found, as well as Dr. Wallich’s new genus 
Dactylicapnos, distinguished by having indehiscent fruit, or fleshy, oblong, subcylindric 
berries. There is another bicalcarate plant of this family in the Himalayas, which: being 
cirrhose and scandent, resembles the last, as well as Ad/umia, in habit ; from the latter, 
it differs in not having its four petals united into one, and from the former in having a dry 
oblong-acuminate, siliquose fruit, which is many-seeded, and, when ripe, opens with 
an elastic spring. With Dielytra it agrees in the parts of fructification, but differs 
entirely in its cirrhose scandent habit. With Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia it may be easily 
confounded, as in describing it is difficult to avoid using the very terms which have been 
employed by Dr.Wallich, Tent. Fl. Nep. p. 51. t. 39, in describing this plant. Hence 
specimens of both plants have been mixed together in the East-Indian Herbarium, 
N. 1426. It may be distinguished by its stem being five-angled, with the angles 
expanded, the racemes generally 2, or 3-flowered, and the siliquose dehiscent fruit. 
Some of the species of Corydalis from Kunawur are more closely allied to the species 
which are indigenous to Siberia, as C. crassifolia to C. Marschalliana and parviflora. In 
the plains only a single species of this family is found, and that belonging to the genus 
Fumaria, and this, like all other plants belonging to families of the temperate zone, 
flowering only in the cold weather months. This referred by Drs. Roxburgh and 
Wallich to F. parviflora, but agreeing very closely with the character and specimens of 
F. Vaillantii, may have been originally introduced into India from the S. of Europe, 
either with the corn in fields, of which it is common, or from its use in medicine, | 
being considered the xazvog of the Greeks. Its numerous Asiatic synonimes, how- 
ever, prove that it has long been acclimated in the East; and in India it is at the 
present day considered, in conjunction with black pepper, an efficacious remedy in 
common agues. 
Besides the species described and figured by Dr.Wallich, the following are some of 
the more remarkable Himalayan species : 
1. Corydalis crassifolia ; caule simplici esquamato, foliis crassis caulinis 2 v. 3 supra medium bi- 
pinnatisectis, segmentis latis cuneatis 3-lobatis, terminali sub-reniformi, lobis inciso-crenatis v. emar- 
ginatis, bracteis tripartitis, summis integris, racemo conferto 15-floro.—Calcar apice incurvatus, 
obtusissimus, pedicello fere aqualis.—Siliqua ovalis, pedicello duplo brevior.—C. parviflore et Mar- 
schalliane affinis—Hab. Chango in Kunawur ; flowering in J uly. Rarung, R. Inglis, Esq. 
2. C. crithmifolia ; foliis radicalibus 2-4 longe petiolatis pinnatisectis, segmentis seepe dichotome 
partitis, laciniis uti bracteis longissimis lineari-lanceolatis, racemo patulo 20-floro.—Scapus unus vel 
duo foliis equalis.—Calcar pedicello duplo brevior rectiusculus sub-acutus.—Hab. Leeo in Kunawur. 
3. C. nana; caule erecto folioso, foliis ternatim supradecompositis, segmentis cuneatis lobatis, 
lobis linearibus acutis, racemo coarctato paucifloro, calcare brevi incurve obtuso pedicello 4-duplo 
breviore-—Herba spithamea.—Hab. Soongnum in Kunawur. 
4. C. vaginans; caule ramoso diffuso, foliis membranaceis longe petiolatis biternatim sectis, segmentis 
_ oblongis cuneatis 3-4-lobatis, lobis oblongis angulis obtusis, petiolis basi membranaceis vaginantibus 
racemis laxis paucifloris—Hab. Kanum in Kunawur. 
* C. filiformis ; caule ramoso, foliis triternatim sectis, segmentis cuneatis bi vel trilobatis, omnibus 
apice rotundatis, racemo laxo paucifloro, bracteis lobatis, summis integris, pedicellis longis fructificatione. 
elongatis, caleare acuto pedicello duplo breviore transversim equitante.— Planta pedalis bipedalisve 
debilis filiformis—Hab. Surkunda to Mussooree ; flowering in June. 
6. C. 
