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PLATE 9. 
9. CHELIDONIUM Dicranosticma Prain in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 585 (1895), 
Natural order P&paveraces. 
A glaucous, glabrous or puberulous herb with a stout, fusiform, descending root- 
stock 10—15 cm. long, enlarged at the apex to 1:5 cm. diam. and there densely 
covered with old sheaths; radical leaves many, petioled, 4—6-jugately pinnatifid to 
-partite, 12—25 сш. long. 3—5 cm. wide, segments usually distant, rhomboid, acutely 
incised-lobed, terminal lobe 3-64; petioles 4—5 cm. long; stems several, leafless 
below, 10—25 сш. long before branching, apex of stem and of each branch 
supporting a terminal flower, branches few, subfastigiate, 6—8 cm. long, in the 
axils of floral leaves conformable with the radical but sessile and smaller only 3—8 cm. 
long by 2:5—4 сш. wide, segments 2—4-jugate, and with occasionally 1—9 sterile 
bracts or, less often, 1—2 flowers near the middle; flowers 3—5 em. across, pedicels 
ebracteolate, 5—8 сш. long; sepals ovate-acute, puberulous, 2 сш. long; petals orange ; 
stamens about 80; ovary narrowly ovate-acute, puberulous with soft weak hairs, style 
distinct, stigmas mitraeform, lobes large erect acute; capsule cylindric 5—6 cm. long, 
(including style 5 mm, long) tapering, softly puberulous ; seeds small, numerous, ovate, 
not scrobiculate and not crested. Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng, lxiv. 2. 327 (1894). Dicranostigma 
lactucoides Hook. f. $ Thoms. Flor, Ind. 255 (1855); Walp. Ann. iv. 272 (1857). 
Stylophorum lactucoides Вай. Hist. des Plantes iii, 114 (1871); Hook. f. б Thoms. 
Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 119 (1872). 
Himataya: Kamaon; Strachey and Winterbottom n. 3! Duthie nn. 2699! 8819! 
5826! Phari; King’s Collectors ! 
Nearly allied to Chelidonium Franchetianum Prain and ОС. leptopodum Prain (Glau- 
cium leptopodum Maxim.) but differing from both in having large stigmatic lobes, 
softly hairy capsules, and simple or subsimple cymes. The plant from Phari which is 
figured on PLATE 9 as fig. 1, almost always has one or two flowers on the branches, 
whereas none of our specimens of the Kamaon plant have other than simple cymes 
though some of them have a barren bract near the middle; the Phari plant has 
moreover the angles of the leaf-segments more acute, and is glabrous and smaller 
in all its parts; to illustrate these features an outline of a leaf of the Kamaon plant 
and a figure of a capsule with its pedicel, from the Western Himalayan form, are 
given as figs. 4 and 5 respectively. 1 do not feel able at present to consider these 
differences specific; should they prove constant, however, it may ultimately be 
necessary to recognise the two as distinct, in which case the name C. Dicranostigma 
may be restricted to the Eastern form and the Western may be known 
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as 
Puare 9.—Chelidonium Dicranostigma Риби. 1, plaut from Phari,—of natural size ; 2. stimmen 
x 2; 3, seed x 5,—both from the plant shown in fig. 1; 4, leaf; 9, capsule,—doth of natural size; 
6, seed x 5; figs. 4,5 and 6 are from a Kamaon plant. Е 
D. P. 
