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10,000 ft, Gamllen. 221 Jongri, An<lerson 366 \ 369! Gammie ! King's 

 Collectors ! Lachung, Hooker (the Sikkim '"'' sihirica'^ of Serb. Ind. Oi'.) t 

 Gammie n. 372 ! Kapoop and Cho-le-la, King's Collectors ! Clmmbi ; very 

 comnioD, King's Cqllectors ! Phari ; Dunghoo n. 4544< ! DisxRiB. S. Tibet 

 {Lama Ujyen Gyatsko n. 344). 



Stems weak, much branched, leafy. Leaves membranous. Flowers yellow ^ in. 

 long ; posticous petal shorter than the slender spur. Capsule varying from \ in. 

 in Chumbi, Sikkim and Nepal specimens to \ in. in Kashmir and Kamaon ones ; the 

 style 2-lobed. 



This and the next species, taken together, constitute tlie Corydalis sihirica of 

 Indian authors. The only character which this plant has in comtnon with C. sihirica 

 is its 2-lobed stigma ; it differs in habit, foliage, floral structure and fruit. The seeds 

 though similar are a little smaller. In habit it almost exactly repeats the 

 characters of the next species (G. longipes) which has flowers extremely like those 

 of G. sihirica; the double confusion resulting from the union first of G. Gasimiriana 

 and C. longipes because they are identical in habit though totally different in 

 flower and fruit, and again of G. longipes and C sihirica because, while of different 

 habit, their flowers and fruits are identical, has led to the belief that C. sihirica is a 

 very variable species. The examination of specimens of G. sihirica collected by 

 Turczaninow near Lake Baikal and elsewhere, and at the river Kolyma by Augus- 

 tinowicz, leads me to doubt whether the genuine C. sihirica is a variable species. 

 And the careful analysis of flowers and examination of fruits from 2& di:fferent 

 gatherings of G. Gasimiriana and from 31 different gatherings of G. longipes shows 

 that neither of these is in the least degree variable, at all events in the direction of 

 passing into each other. An apparent exception to this is a solitary gathering from 

 Chumbi which, with flowers exceedingly like these of G. Casimii-imta, has unripe 

 capsules like these of G. longipes. But the evidence that we have in this plant an 

 intermediate between G. Gasimiriana and G. longipes is far from complete. Its 

 flowers instead of being intermediate in form between those of the other two have a 

 spur with an exaggerated curvature. The stigma too differs from that in either C. 

 Gasimiriana or G. lo7igipes and resembles that of G. tongolensis Franchet from 

 Szechuen, another nearly related but nevertheless quite distinct species. 



21. {s7ih 16.) CoRrDALis LONGIPES DO. ProcZ?-. i. 128; snb-glaucons, 

 much branched, slender, leaves loiig-petioled equally twice ternate, 

 segments 3-5, ovate deeply cut, racemes lax few-fld. terminating long 

 slender branches, bracts small all cut into narrow lobes ; onter petals 

 crested, the lower pouched at base, the upper with stout or slender 

 straight or slightly recurved spur ; capsule oval, seeds 2-seriate. WalL 

 Tent. Flo7\ Nep. 53 in part and excluding fig. ; Cat. n. 1433 in part. 

 C. sihirica Maxim. Flor. Tavgut. 51 as to spp. from Kamaon and Khasia. 

 C. filiformis Boyle, III. 68. 



Himalaya : Garhwal, near Mussoorie, Boyle ! King ! Kamaon, 

 Ralam, StracTiey and Winterhottom ! N^epal : Wallich (mixed with preced- 

 ing and with C. dipliijlki) ! Sikkim : Tongloo, Thomson! Anderson n. 364 f 

 365 ! King ! Gamble n. 8426 ! Sandakpbo, Gamble n. 3903 ! King's 

 Collectors ! Jongri, common, King's Collectors ! Singalelah, Kurz ! 



