122 IX. FUMARIACE^. [Corydalis. 



form, stigmas 2 minute or dilated ; ovules 2 or more, on 2 parietal placentas. 

 Capsule ovoid oblong elliptic or linear, valves 2 membranous leaving the 

 seed-bearing placentas attached to the style. Seeds small, beaked, aril 

 fleshy or 0. DISTRIB. Species about 70, temp. European and Asiatic, with 

 a few N. American and Cape species. 



SECT. I. Erect leafy branched fibrous-rooted herbs. Capsule narrow 

 linear. Seeds 1 -seriate. 



1. C. ophiocarpa, II. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 259 ; leaves 2-pinnatisect, 

 racemes lax many-flowered terminal and leaf-opposed, posticous petal equal- 

 ling or exceeding the broad obtuse spur tip Hat obcordate, anticous linear 

 concave, capsule tortuous. 



Moist valleys of the SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, alt. 9000ft., H. f. 



Stem 2-3 ft., slender, branched. Leaves 4-8 in., glaucous beneath, pinnae 1-2 in., 

 pinnules obovate-oblong, segments obtuse, mucronate, glaucous beneath. / 

 yellow; bracts minute, subulate, entiiv. ti'/mls orbicular, timbriate. Po.sf // 

 curved ; lateral united below the tip. Style slender, equalling tin- many-ovulcd ovary. 

 Capsule 1 in. Seeds small, black, .shining, punctate ; tmiicle thickened. 



2. C. flaccida, II. f. & T. Fl Ind. 260 ; tall, leaves 3-4-pinnatisect, 

 racemes terminal and axillary many-flowered, posticous petal twice as long 

 as the curved conical spur, tip spathulate 2-lobed, pod straight. 



Moist valleys of the SIKKIM-HIMAI.AYA, alt. 11-12,000 ft., 11. f. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout, erect, branched. L, nves 6-12 in., membranous ; pinnae 2 in. ; 

 pinnules subsessile, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, in>t glaiicmis beneath ; ]<>l<es rounded, 

 apiculate. Flowers 4-f in. long, brown purple ; racemes 2-6 in. : lower bracts leafy, 

 median cut or lolied, upper narrow. fi . acute. ti>thi-d. PottioOVH petM 



plano-convex, lip rounded winged. Style slender, twice as long as the linear ovary. 

 Capsule 1-H in., linear. 



3. C. leptocarpa, //. /. <k T. Fl. Ind. 2HO ; diffuse, leaves 2-ternately 

 pinnatisect, racemes tfong-pediinoled 2-7-flowered leaf-opposed, posticous 

 petal concave acuminate much shorter than the slender curved spur, pod 

 erect straight torulosr. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, in Bliotan, (,'ntjlth : Sikkim, alt. 8000ft., H.f. 



Stem 6-12 in., weak, branched, decumbent. L> <ivt s 3-0 in., long-petioled, mem- 

 branous, segments broadly obovate, deeply cut, lobes rounded, glaucous or not beneath. 

 Flowers 1-1^ in. long, dull purple ; bracts obovate or oblong-cuncate, cut. Sepals 

 minute, oblong, fimbriate. Posticous petal concave, narrow oblong, tip winged; 

 anticous spathulate, acuminate. titi/I- sender, half as long us the linear ovary. 

 sule 1-14 i n -> narrow linear. Seeds i-seriate, black, shining, smooth; aril broad, 

 2-lobed. 



SECT. II. Root fibrous. Pod short, elliptic obovate lanceolate or subglo- 

 bose. Seeds 2-seriate. 



* Root bulbous, or rootstock elongate, stem simple. Radical leaves few 

 or ; cauline opposite alternate or whorled. Racemes undivided. 



4. C. rutaefolia, Sibth. Flor. Grcec. t. 667 ; leaves opposite or whorled 

 2-3-ternately cut, raceme erect 6-12-flowered, bracts entire, outer petals not 

 keeled equalling or shorter than the inflated obtuse spur. //. /. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 262. C. diphylla, Wall Cat. 1430 ; Ttni. Fl. Nep. 54. C. pauciflora, 



in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 30. C. longipes, Don Prodr. 198 (not of 



