32 D. Plain — Some additional Famariacese. [No. 1, 



n. 22517! Kashmir; at Gund in Sind Valley Gammie! near Shishna 

 Nag, at 12,000 feet, in Liddar Vallej^ ButUe n. 14131 ! Nowbeg, at 

 6,500 feet, Clarice n. 31249 (issued as C. sibirica) ! 



VAR. vaginalis R. f. 8f T. Flor. Ind. i. 267 ; stems weaker procum- 

 bent ; habit and foliage of 0. sibirica VAU. intermedia Kegel. C vagi- 

 nans Royle, III. Him. 68. C. ramosa VAR. vaginans H. f. ^ T. Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. i. 125. 



North-West Himalaya: Kunawar, at Kanum, Boyle! Labnl, 

 Jaeschke n. 255 ! Thomson! Pangi ; Stoliczka ! Bashahr ; Lace n. 408! 

 Garhwal; Duthie n. 946! n. 5320! Simla; Gamble n. 1402! Kashmir; 

 near Sonanmrg, Falconer ! Clarke n. 30879 ! Duthie, n. 13593 ! Kumaon ; 

 Blinkworth in Herb. Wall. (n. 1434 partly) ! 



A good deal of confusion has taken place regarding this species, probably owing 

 to the fact that the Wallichian types were collected by Blinkworth and, not 

 being numerous, are therefore not well represented in Herbaria. In the type 

 Herbarium at the Linnean Society, however, both the erect and the lax plants, which 

 do not differ except in habit, are represented. The species happens to be a 

 very easily recognised and distinct one ; the only Indian species that can be con- 

 founded with it is C. cornuta and a diagnosis is at once effected by the seeds. 

 To help in removing the confusion, all the localities and all the numbered sheets 

 present in Herb. Calcutta and in Herb. Saharanpur are cited *for the convenience 

 of students elsewhere. 



The plant described as C. vaginans by Royle is the one of lax habit; the 

 original specimens described in III. Him. (from Kanum in Kanawar) are at Saharan- 

 pur and have been examined by the writer. Both in Herb. Saharanpur and in his 

 distributed herbarium Dr. Royle consistently named the erect one C. chaeropJiylla, he 

 having mittaken it for Dr. Wallich's plant of that name ; Dr. Falconer having 

 discovered Dr. Royle's mistake, but not having ascertained that the erect plant was 

 included in Dr. Wallich's C. ramosa named it at Saharanpur C. erecta, but has noted 

 his doubt as to its being different specifically from Dr. Royle's C. vaginans. In the 

 Flora Indica and the Flora of British India, C. ramosa var. vaginans ia exactly 

 equivalent to 0. ramosa Wall. {Cat. 1434), i.e., it includes both 0. vaginans Royle and 

 G. erecta Falc. The species does not occur in Sikkim or in Nepal. The Sikkim 

 plant included in C. ramosa in the Flora of British India, as var. 1. glancn, and 

 which forms VAR. a of 0. ramosa in the Flora Indica, has pinnate-leaves and is 

 C. Strncheyi, a form very considerably removed from the present species. The small 

 species included as var. nana is C, nana Royle ; it also has pinnate leaves and is 

 equally far removed. 



C. ramosa is much more nearly related to C. sibirica Pers. than is the 

 C. sibirica of Indian authors. It has exactly its habit and foliage (even imitating 

 C. sibirica in its variations), has the same inflorescence and the same fruits and seeds. 

 The solitary difference is in the flower ; in C. sibirica the spur is slightly recurved, 

 in this species it is distinctly incurved and longer. 



27. (18.) CORYDALIS CHAEROPHYLLA, DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Naga Hills : Japvo, Watt! Puli- 

 nabadza, Prain ! 



