(IX) it. PRAIN. REVISION OF THE GENUS CHELIDONIUM. 587 



lobed, termina] lobe 3-fid; stems many leafless below copiously fasti 

 tel y liraiidini above; apex of stem and ofeach branch Bupportinga ter- 

 mina] flower; branches in the axilsofsmall 3-5-partite floral leaves 

 with acuminate sparingly-toothed segments; sisals smal] ovate acute 

 glabrous or puberulous; flowers smal] yellow, pedicels bractless; ovarj 

 cylindric tuberculate ; style short, stigmatic lobes smal] erect; capsule 

 oarrowly cylindric slightly tapering at hoth extremities, glabrous; 

 seeds small oumerous ovoid-apiculate pitted but not scrobiculate and 

 not crested. 



Glaucium leptopodum Maxim, liull. Ac. Imp. Petersh. XXIII. 310; Mel. 

 Biol. IX. 711(1876). 



China; Kansu ; Pn tanin ! 



Rootstock 4 in. long, apex 1/2 in. diam., stems 4-8 in. longbefore branching; 

 radical leaves 5-6 in. long, 1 in. broad, pétioles 1 */« in., segments i-6-jugate; 

 floral leaves 1/2 in. long, 1/6 wide or less, segments 1-2-jugate; sepals i/4 in. 

 long, buds I/o in. diam.; flowers 1/2-3/4 in. across, pedicels 1 in. long; capsule 

 (including style 1/8 in.) 1 7a-2 in. long, 1/6 in. wide. 



This has no trace of the pseudo-replum of a Glaucium; its stigma 

 moreover isexactly that of Chélidonium; through the intermediation of 

 C. Franchetianv/m it is clearly a Dicranostigma, while the structure of 

 its fruit shows that Dicranostigma as a whole is not generically separ- 

 able from Chélidonium. 



