172 BULLETIN DE l'hERBIER BOISSIER. (11) 



Cryploceras verticiUare Schott Oestr. Bot. Wochenbl. IV, 121 (1854). 



Persia : Kuh Mande, Stapf! Flos 16 mm. longus; calcar 9,5 mm. lon- 

 gum; petala lateralia 6,5 mm. longa. 



Of Lhis species Ihere are only 5 examples in the Calcutta herbarium ; 

 they were collected by Di' Stapf. They show that it serves no useful pur- 

 pose to reduce this plant to C. rutaefoUa; its foliage is very dissimilar 

 and its flowers too diflfer sufficiently to admit of its treatment as a dis- 

 tinct species. 



8. Corydalis oppositifolia DG. Syst. Veg. II, 114 (1821); foliis 

 subsessilibus 3-sectis^ segmentis lateralibus brève petiolulatis 3-partitis 

 mediano longiuscule petiolulato 3-secto, lobis la te ovatis; floribus falcatis 

 calcare recurvo parum adscendente petaUs laterahbus dimidio longiore, 

 labiis ecristatis postico margine parum ampliato apice rotundato mucro- 

 nulato. 



Corydalis oppositifolia DG. Prodr. 1, 126 (1825). 



Corydalis rutœfolia Hook. f. et Thoms. Flor. Ind. I, 262, var. a in parte 

 (1855); Walp. Ann. IV, 187, var. a in parte (1857); Boiss. Flor. Or. I, 

 126 in parte (1867); Hook. f. et Thoms. Flor. Brit. Ind. I, 123, var. 1 in 

 parte (1872). 



Cryptoceras oppositifolium Schott, Oest. Bot. Wochenbl. IV, 121 (1854). 



MESOPOTAiHA : Mt Tur Tschell supra Terek, 3000 p. s. m., Hauss- 

 knecht/ Flos 30-32 mm. longus; calcar 20-22 mm. longum; petala lateralia 

 10 mm. longa. 



Of this I have only seen one spécimen lent from the Boissier Herbarium 

 where it bears the name C. rutœfolia. I cannot see how it is to be included 

 in C. rutœfolia as represented by the Gretan plant, wilhout making it 

 necessary to include in that species the one that follows this, which was 

 considered by M. Boissier to be C. persica, but which, owing to its proving 

 to be distinct from true C. persica I have proposed to name C. Boissieri. 

 The foliage of C. oppositifolia is like that of C. rutœfolia and is very 

 différent from that of C. Boissieri, but the flowers of C. oppositifolia are 

 quite unlike those of C. rutœfolia and are very like those of C. Bois- 

 sieri and of C. macrocentra. 



9. Corydalis Boissieri Prain; foliis sessilibus 3-sectis segmentis 

 omnibus longe petiolulatis lateralibus 1-jugim 2-pinnatiseclis, mediano 

 2-jugim 2-pinnatisecto multo minoribus, lobis oblongis incisis; floribus 

 falcatis calcare valde recurvo adscendenti, petalis lateralibus plus quam 



