(10) DAVID PRAIN. CORYDALIS PERSICA CHAM. ET SCHLECHT. 17t 



Greta : Mt. Lassili, Heldrichf Syria : Ml. Herraon, Low7iefY]os. 11- 

 23 mm. longus; calcar 9-10 mm. longum; petala laleralia 8-10 mm. 

 longa. 



Oiir Calcutta spécimens of Corydalis rutaefoUa are unfortiinately very 

 few in number; they comprise Ihree from Mt. Hermon wliich manifestly 

 belong t(» tlie form named Cryptoceras purpiirans by Schott, and four 

 from Crele which liave been nanied by M. Boissier C. rutaefoUa var. sub- 

 nnißora. I cannot bring myself to look upon the smaller number of flow- 

 ers as a serions characler and Ulis plant l cannot follow M. Boissier in 

 treating as a variely. far less can I see my way to accepting the view of 

 Sieber and of C. Koch that it is specifically separable. The coroUa of this 

 plant from Crete agrées wilh that of the two plants figured by Zuccarini 

 as C. Erdelii. Whul Cryptoceras pulchellum may be, as apart from genuine 

 C. rutaefoUa, I cannot suggest; the description is quile inadéquate. It 

 might be well to separate the plant wilh a straight spur, which forms 

 Scholl's Cryptoceras purpurans, as a distinct variely, but the material at 

 my disposai is insufficienl to warrant my formally doing so here. 



M. Boissier refers to two distinct plants named C. Ubanotica Höchst. ;one 

 of these he reduces to C. rutaefoUa, the other he refers to C. soUda. The 

 only descriptions of C. Ubanotica thal I have been able lo meet wilh are 

 lliese in Flora and in Walper's Hepertoriuni; these descriptions certainly 

 refer to a plant that is not C. rutaefoUa. yel strangely enough the Index 

 Kewensis only gives thatone of M. Boissier's réductions which llic des- 

 criptions menlioned do not warrant. The spécimens of C. rutaefoUa lent 

 me from the Boissier Herbarium belong to two diiïerent plants, neither 

 of which can possibly be considered conspecilic with the Grelan species. 

 One of the two agrées wilh the accounis that are available of C. opposili- 

 foUa, the other is the plant that 1 have tentalively idenlided with CV/y/j- 

 toceras modestum. Neilher identification is verifiable here but in any case 

 neither of the plants lias a ^Dod cl.iini to the désignation C. rutaefoUa. 



7. Corydalis verticillaris DC. Syst. Veg. 11, lii (18^21); foliis 

 sf;ssilibus ii-seclis, .segmentis longo pfdioliilatis laciniilis lineari-oblongis 

 :{-'t-pirinalis; floribus subreclis; calcare [letalis laleralihus triente loiigiore 

 bn>j reclo a rnedio parurn adsrenchînle afiice [larinn biilboso ibi(pio suh- 

 incurvo, labiis ecristalis postico niargine niinopero ampliato apico aciito. 



Corydalis rerticillaris DC. Prodr. I. hJf. f!S:i:i); Hoiss. Klor. ()i-. I. S'il 



riH<;7). 



(lorydaUf rnLrfolia v;ir. [i. Hook. f. cl TIkums. [''ior. Ind. I, 'H)'i 

 (Ih:,:,): \V;.I[i. Ami. IV. 1H7 fl8:;7j: Kl. 11-, Hill. Ind. I, 12;{, v.ir. ti(lS7^J. 



