Corydalis.] ix. FUMARIACE^E. 125 



* Root fusiform. Stem branched (simple in 13, Moorcroftiana and 14, 

 Gortschakovii). Racemes often divided. Spur equalling or exceeding the 

 petals. (See also 24, crassifolia.) 



13. C. IVIoorcroftiana, Wall. Oat. 1432; stout, erect, glaucous, more 

 or less glandular, leaves 2-3-pin natisect, racemes many-flowered simple or 

 branched, bracts linear or lanceolate entire or lobed. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind 

 266. . 



WESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-17,000 ft., from Gugi, Strach. & Wint., to Balti, Moor- 

 croft. DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



Rootstoclc stout, woody, densely clothed with withered sheaths. Stem 6-18 in., 

 naked or leafy, simple or divided. Leaves 3-8 in., oblong, pinnnae ovate or orbicular, 

 variously cut and lobed. Flowers f in. long, yellow, tips purple. Posticous petal 

 obtuse, back broadly keeled, equalling the straight obtuse spur. Capsule 4 in., narrow 

 elliptic, acute at both ends ; style persistent, half as long. /Seeds black, shining. 



14. C. Gortschakovii, Schrenk. Enum. Plant. Soon-gar. 100; stem 

 erect quite glabrous leafy, radical leaves decompound glaucous, pinnules 

 petioled, racemes dense many-flowered terminal and axillary, bracts leafy 

 incised. Ledeb. Fl Alt. i. 746 ',H.f.& T. FL Ind. 267. 



TIBETAN HIMALAYA, from Gugi, Strach. & Wint., to Kashmir, T. T., and Hasora, 

 Jacquemont, &c. DISTRIB. Soongaria. 



Hootstoclt woody. Stem 1-2 ft., simple or branched. Radical leaves 6-12 in., leaves 

 long-petioled, ovate, pinnae and pinnules petioled, segments incised. Flowers -1 in. 

 long, yellow, tips purple. Posticous petal equalling the straight obtuse spur, dorsal 

 wing broad or narrow. Capsule and seeds of C. Moorcroftiana. We have fragments 

 of a plant from Tibet, N. of Nipal, apparently intermediate between this and the last 

 species. The Soongarian specimens of this have simple stems and larger flowers than 

 the Himalayan. 



15. C. ramosa, Wall. Cat. 1434 ; stem procumbent weak branched, 

 leaves decompound segments linear, racemes terminal many lax many- 

 flowered, bracts cut into linear lobes. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 267. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA,. alt. 12-15,000 ft., from Sikkim, H.f., to Kashmir, T. T. 



Glaucous. Stem 1-2 ft. (dwarf at high elevations), often leafy, flexuous. Radical 

 leaves few or many, long-petioled, 2-3 times divided, ultimate segments small narrow- 

 oblong or linear. Flowers 4 in. long, yellow; racemes 1-5 in. Posticous petal dorsally 

 winged, hooded, equalling or shorter than the obtuse spur. Capsules obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse ; style persistent, pedicels deflexed. Seeds shining. 



VAR. 1. 'glauca; leaves very glaucous, segments very narrow, wing of posticous petal 

 broad subentire. 



VAR. 2. vaginans ; leaves membranous less glaucous, segments broader, wing of 

 posticous petal lacerate. 



VAR. 3. nana; dwarf, alpine, leaves subsessile, wing of posticous petal very 

 narrow. 



16. C. sibirica, Pers. Synops. ii. 70 ; subglaucous, branched, prostrate, 

 leaves 2-3-pinnate, segments 3-5 broad-ovate deeply cut, racemes lax few- 

 flowered terminating long slender branches, bracts small cut into narrow 

 lobes, spur recurved, seeds shining. //. /. & T. FL Lid. 268. C. Impatiens, 

 Fisch. in DC. Prodr. i. 128. C. longipes, DC.; Wall. Cat. 1433; Tent. FL 

 Nip. t. 42 (bad, not of Don Prodr.}. C. filitbrmis, Royle III. 65. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 7-14,000 ft., from Sikkim to Garwhal; KHASIA HILLS, alt. 6000ft. 

 DISTRIB. Eastern Siberia. 



Stem 12 ft., weak, much branched, leafy. Leaves membranous. Flowers yellow, 

 \ in. long. Posticous petal hooded, acute, equalling or exceeding the very broad conic 



