(Mi) lt. PRAIN. REVISION OF THE GENUS CHELIDONIUM. 588 



Tho habit ofthis speciea often so much resembles that of Stylopho- 

 rum that it lias beeil by raost authors included in thaï genus. In reality 

 however its inflorescence isa genuine cymeandthis coupled with the 

 absence of specialised bracts at the base of the pedicels serves to indi- 



cate that it stands almost midway bctween Dicranostigma as a whole 

 and Stylophorum as a whole, thus serving to show that these latter are 

 congeneric. At the sanie tirnc it has secds very like those of C. majiis 

 and a fruit similar to that of C. majus and of the Dicranostigma^ except 

 C. Dicrayiostigma itself. It thus serves to conncct on the one hand Dicra- 

 nostigma and Euchelidonium and on the other Euchelidonium and 

 Stylophorum. 



§ IV. DICRANOSTIGMA Prain. 



6. Ghelidonium Dicranostigma Prain: glaucous puberulous; 

 rootstock stout fusiforni descending apex enlarged; radical leaves many 

 petioled pinnatifid to partite, segments usually distant rhornboid acu- 

 tely inciscd-lobed, terminal lobe 3-fid; stems several leafless below 

 sparingly fastigiately branched above, apex of stem and of each branch 

 supporting a terminal flower; branches, occasionally with 1-2 sterile 

 floral leaflets, or rarely a second flower, near the middle, in the axils of 

 floral leaves conformable with the radical but sessile and smaller; 

 sepals large ovate acute puberulous; flowers medium orange, pedicels 

 bractless; ovary narrowly ovate acute, puberulous with soft weak hairs, 

 style long Stigmas mitra(?form lobes large erect acute : capsule cylindric 

 tapering softly puberulous, seeds small numcrous ovate pitted but not 

 scrobiculate and not crested. 



Dicranostigma laciucoides Hook. f. and Thoms. Flor. Ind. 255 (1855); Walp. 

 Ann. IV. 272 (1857). 



Stylophorum laciucoides Baill. Hist. den Plantes, III, 114 (1871); Hook, f. and 

 Thoms. Flor. Brit. Ind. I. 119 (1872). 



Himalaya: Kamaori; Strachey and Winterbottoni n. 3! Duthie nn. 2699! 

 38191 5326! Phari ; King's Collectorl 



Rootstock 4-6 in. long, apex 1/2 in. diam.; stems 4-10 in. before branching; 

 radical leaves 5-9 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, pétioles 1 l /r-î l /a in., segments Mi- 

 jngate; tloral leaves 2-3 in. long, 1-1 l /i in. broad, segments 2-4-jugate; 

 sepals 3,-4 in. long, buds 1/3 in. diam., Qowers 2 in. across, pedicels 2-3 in. 

 long. ; capsules (inclnding style 1/5 in. long) 2 */s in. long, 1 'i in. wiile or less. 



