586 BULLETIN DE L'HERBIER BOISSIER. (17) 



This very interesting species, which like the two that follow it, has 

 the habit of a Glauchau, is distinguished from all the other species by 

 the large size of its Stigmas. In other respects its fruits closely resemble 

 those of the true Stylophora with which it has by Bâillon, by Bentham 

 and Hooker, and by its original authors, been associated. As to inflores- 

 cence — a simple cyme with bractless pedicels — it serves to connect 

 C. FranclieManvm and C. leptopodum with C. japonkum which in turn 

 eonnects Dkranostigma as a whole on the one band with C. satclmense 

 (as to habit) and the other with C. majus (as to fruit and seeds). 



7. Chelidonium Franchetianum Prain; glaucous, puberul- 

 ous: rootstock stout fusiform descending apex enlarged; radical leaves 

 many petioled pinnatipartite, segments distant rhomboicl acutely incised- 

 lobed, terminal lobe 3-fid; stems many leafless below, sparingly branched 

 above ; apex of stem supporting a terminal flower, each branch again 

 cymosely dividing and with a sessile semi-amplexicaul 5-7-lobed leaf 

 with acute segments at its base ; sepals large ovate acuminate spathulate 

 at the tip, glabrous or puberulous ; flowers medium orange pedicels 

 bractless; ovary linear glabrous, style short, stigmatic lobes small 

 erect; capsule linear, subequal throughout, glabrous with a line of 

 small prickles along each placental rib. 



China: Szechuen; Tachienlu. Pratt n. 217! Bonvalot n. 142! Kia-la, Soulié ! 



Rootstock 1/2 in. diam., stems 4/8 in. long before branching; radical leaves 

 8 in. long 1 72 in- broad, pétioles 2 in., segments 4-6-jugate; floral leaves 

 1-1 l /s in. long, 3/4-1 in. wide; sepals 5-8 in. long, buds 1-3 in. diam. ; flowers 

 1 in. across, pedicels 1 in. long; capsules 2 72-3 in. long, 1/8 in. wide, seeds 

 (immature) not crested. 



Almost exactly intermediate between C. Dkranostigma and C. lepto- 

 podum, repeating exactly the habit of the first and closely following the 

 structure of fruit of the last. Its style of inflorescence stands midway 

 betwoen that of the other two Dicranostigmas. 



The species is named in honour of the illustrious M. Adrien Fran- 

 chet, who has done so much to increase our knowledge of the Flora of 

 Soutli-westoi'ii China. 



8. Chelidonium leptopodum Prain; glaucous puberulous; 

 rootstock stout fusiform descending, apex enlarged; radical leaves 

 many petioled pinnatisect, segments distant rhomboid acutely incised- 



