266 flora indica. [Fumariacea. 



duge, Sir. et WintJ Kunawar, Jacquemont! Ladak ! Zanskar! — (Fl. 

 Jul.) (v. v.) 



Ilerba parvula, sicca flaccida, spithamsea. Radix crassa, elongata, bitriceps, su- 

 pcrne vaginis angustis foliorum delapsorum longe vaginata. Folia lineari-oblonga, 

 lamina 1^-3-pollicari, petiolo elongato, vaginis elongatis sulcatis nitidis pallidis. Pin- 

 na v. pinnule breviter petiolatee, magnitudine varise, -J— f poll, longee, varie lobatae 

 v. sectas. Eacemus brevis ; pedicellis breviusculis. Sepala squamseformia, lacera. 

 Flores f -pollicares, sulphurei, petalis dorso fusco-brunneo viridique variegatis. Calcar 

 apice paullo dilatatum v. subacutum. Petala exteriora earinata v. ala lata membra- 

 nacea cristata. Ovarium immaturum lineari-ellipticum, stylo aequilongum, pendulum, 

 glaucum, ^ poll, longum. Semina pauca, testa leevi, arillo parvo. 



* 



foil 







Moorcroftiana (W 



radicalib 



tripinnatisectis, pinnis pinnatifidis, pinnulis varie incisis, racemo inter- 



dum basi diviso densifloro, bracteis lanceolatis integerrimis lobatisve, 



petalis exterioribus obtusis apice late alatis. — C. Griffithsii, Bom. Biag. 

 ser. ii. 14? 



Hab. In Himalaya et Tibetia occidental^ alt. 10-17,000 ped.: 

 Guge, Str. et Wint. ! Kunawar, Munro ! Piti ! Ladak, Moorcroft f Nubra ! 

 Pangong, H. Strachey ! Afghanistan, Griffith !— (FL Aug.) (v. v.) 



^ Serba plerumque elata, variabilis, plus minusve minute glanduloso-puberula ; va- 

 rietates parvse scaposse, scapo aphyllo, ad sectionem posteriorem pertinent. Radix 

 crassa, fusiformis, bi-multiceps, crassitie pollicis et ultra, vaginis nitidis sulcatis sub- 

 membranaceis petiolorum vetustorum ssepe coronata. Folia radicalia perplurima, 

 carnosa, spithamsea v. pedalia, pinnatisecta, pinnis primariis distantibus approxima- 

 tisve, petiolulatis, late ovatis, profunde pinnatifidis bipinnatisectisve, folia caulina 

 minora sparsa. Racemus simplex v. plerumque basi divisus, densus, multiflorus. 

 Bractea (superiores saltern) lineares, integerrinise, acutae, glandulosse, inferiores v. 

 omnes pinnatifido-lobatse. Flores speciosi, sulphurei, f poll, longi. Sepala mi- 

 nima, lacera. Petala exteriora apice late alata, ala autice SEepius producta. Siliqua 

 lineari-ellipticse, i-pollicares. Semina reniformia, aterrima, testa nitida Crustacea, mi- 

 nutissime punctulata, arillo parvo bilobo. 



A very handsome species, peculiar to the dry climates of the Western Himalaya, 

 Tibet, and Afghanistan. The whole plant is covered with a minute glandular pubes- 

 cence ; but this is only visible with a lens in Strachey and Winterbottom's Guge 

 specimens, which have more glaucous racemes. Small states have simple, scape-like, 

 leafless stems, a span high, whilst typical ones have tall branching stems. It is very 

 nearly allied to C. Gort&chakovii, of which it may be a form, but in that plant the 

 bracts are pinnatisect, and it is never glandular. 



Boissier's C. Griffithsii we have referred to this, though it is not the n. 1419 of 

 Griffith in Leman's Herbarium ; the name would claim priority (that si Moorcroftiana 

 not being published) were we certain of the identity, but no allusion is made by Bois- 

 sier to the glandular pubescence, which is evident in Griffith's specimens, and the 

 name should further have been Griffithii. 



14. C. Gortschakovii (Schrenk. En. Plant. Nov. 100); erecta, 

 robusta, ramosa (rarius simplex), foliosa, glauca, radice crassa, foliis 

 radicalibus amplis pinnatisectis bi-tri-pinnatisectisve, pinnis primariis 

 petiolulatis, segmentis ovatis varie sectis lobulis acutis, racemis densifloris, 





