Corydalis.] IX. FUMARIACE.E. 127 



many-flowered dense, lower bracts leafy pectinate, capsules oblong. DC. 

 Prodr. i. 128 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 271. C. Hoffineisteri, Klotzsch in Pr. Wakl. 

 fieise, t. 35. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 12-15,000 ft., from Sikkim to Kunawur. 



Eootstock stout, branched. Stems 6-18 in., simple or branched. Leaves very many, 

 4-8 in., oblong, segments crowded acuminate. Flowers |-| in., yellow, tips purple ; 

 racemes 1-2 in. ; lower pedicels often elongate. Posticous petal obtuse, dorsal wing 

 broad, twice as long as the obtuse spur. Capsules % in., pedicel curved. /Seeds 4-6 

 shining. 



ft Leaves simply pinnate or trisect. 



22. C. flabellata, Edc/ew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 30 ; glaucous, stem 

 erect rigid much-branched, leaves pinnate, pinnse 4-6 -pair flabelliform, 

 racemes strict panicled dense-flowered, bracts very small, capsules linear. 

 H.f. & T.Fl. Ind. 271. 



WEST TIBET and TIBETAN HIMALAYA, alt. 9-12,000 ft., from Kumaon, Edgeworth, 

 to Gilgit, Winterbottom. 



Stem 2-3 ft., striate. Leaves 6-8 in.; pinnse distant, ^-1 4 in. diam., crenate or lobed. 

 Flowers 4~| if-, yellow, curved, racemes 2-6 in. long; pedicels very short. Posticous 

 petal obtuse, cucullate, twice as long as the decurved inflated spur. Capsule ^-\. in., 

 spreading or deflexed ; style slender. Seeds 8-10, dotted, shining. ^^ 



23. C. adiantifoiia, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 271 ; glaucous, stems many- 

 branched, leaves pinnate, pinnae 2-5 pair orbicular or reniform, racemes 

 terminal dense many-flowered, bracts subulate exceeding the buds, cap- 

 sules linear. 



WESTERN TIBET; Zanskar (not Kishtwar as in Fl. Ind.), alt. 12-14,000 ft., T. T. 



Rootstock stout, woody, crowned with withered sheaths. Stems 618 in., branched 

 from the base. Leaves 3-6 in., linear-oblong; pinnse remote, 4~| in. diam., entire cre- 

 nate or 3-5-lobed, base cuneate or cordate. Flowers f-1 in., yellow, tips brown : 

 racemes 1-3 in. ; pedicels very short. Sepals membranous, long-subulate, base lacerate. 

 Posticous petal nearly straight, slender, abruptly acuminate, much longer than the in- 

 flated obtuse incurved spur. Capsule 1 in., acuminate at both ends ; style straight. 

 Very near C.flabellata, but smaller, pinnae often cordate, and bracts setaceous like soft 

 bairs. 



24. C crassifolia, Royle III. 69 ; glaucous, stem simple, leaves thick 

 reniform 3-5-lobed or -partite, racemes terminal dense-flowered simple or 

 branched, bracts leafy obovate-lanceolate or spathulate entire, capsules 

 subglobose inflated. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 261. C. crassissima, Cambess. in 

 Jacq. Voy. Bot. 12, t. 11 ; Thorns, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 17, and iv. t. 9. 

 C. physocarpa, Cambess. I.e. t. 12. 



WEST TIBET and TIBETAN HIMALAYA, alt. 14-17,000 ft., from Kunawur to Balti. 



Eootstock prostrate, woody. Stem. 3-8 in. Radical leaves few, 2-5 in. diam., early 

 withering, almost fleshy, long-petioled ; lobes crenate or again lobed, with petioled 

 lobulate or palmati-partite (rarely pinnate) segments; cauline 1-3, subsessile. Flowers 

 f 1 in., white or yellowish, variegated with purple, racemes 13 in. long. Poaticous 

 petal broad, obtuse, wingless, equalling the cyliudric incurved spur. Capsule 1 in. diam. ; 

 style short, persistent. 



4. FTJIVIARIA, Linn. 



Annual, rarely perennial herbs, usually branched, often scandent. Leaves 

 much divided, segments very narrow. Flowers small, white, rose-coloured 



or purplish, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Sepals, peta/s and stamens 

 QiGorydalis. Ovary 1 -celled; style filiform, stig] 



stigma entire or shortly lobed ; 



