1896.] D. Prain — Some additional FvLmsiri&cess. 85 



natisect, segments narrowly ovate 2-3-fid, cauline leaves alternate 3-5- 

 jugate ; racemes numerous terminal and iti axils of the upper stem- 

 leaves, many-fid. ; bracts all narrow the lowest incised the rest all 

 linear longer than the pedicels ; petals without crests, spur of upper 

 rather shorter than the lip ; ovary ovate obtuse. 



Nepalese Tibet; Hooker! S.-E. Tibkt; Tsang, Lama Ujyen 

 Gyatsho, n. 162 ! 



Stems 3-8 in. rather slender, flexuous ; radical leaves 3^4 in. long, including 

 petiole l|^-2 in. narrowly vaginate, cauline 3-5 short-petioled 1^-2^ in., segments 

 I in. by ^ in., lobules | in. ; pedicels short, flowers yellow f in. Spur slender conical 

 very slightly incurved; capsules j in. long, ^ in. diam. 



This is the plant from Nepalese Tibet referred to under C. Gortschahovii in Flor. 

 Ind, 267 and Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 123. The inflorescences and bracts do mucli resemble 

 those of 0. thyrsijlora, to which the descriptions of C, Gortschahovii cited apply. 

 But the outer petals are entirely without crests and in this respect resemble those 

 of G. Franchetiana. A fi.ne suite of specimens of the same plant from South-Easfc 

 Tibet shows however that this plant is quite distinct from any other Indian species 

 and that it approaches most nearly to C. straminea Maxim., from which it differs 

 in having a longer more slender spur ; it has been named in honour of its distin* 

 guished discoverer. 



36. (13.) CoRYDALis MoORCROFTiANA Wall. ; H. f. ^ T., Flor, Ind. 

 and Flor. Brit. Lid. 



37. ( — .) CoRYDALis GoRTscHAKOVii Schrenh. 



An examination of the many Yarkand, Hindu Khush and Kashmir specimens in 

 Herb. Calcutta, and of over two hundred specimens from Turkestan, Soongaria and 

 Altai, kindly lent to the writer for study from Herb. St. Petersburg by Dr. Batalin, 

 shows that this is undoubtedly the plant described as C. Moorcroftiana by Boissier 

 [_Flor. Orient, i. 131] and indicates that probably this is the original C. Moorcroftiana 

 of Wallich. Should this prove to be the case, Schrenk's name must give place 

 to Wallich's. Whether a new name must be given to designate the species with 

 entire bracts — the C. Moorcroftiana of the Flora of British India — is somewhat doubt- 

 ful ; its flowers are exactly those of C. Gortschahovii and, in the writer's opinion, the 

 differences between the two plants are hardly specific. C. Gortschahovii H. f. & T., 

 as described, is not Schrenk's plant but the next species. 



38. (14.) CoRYDALis THYRSiFLORA Prain. C. Q-ortschakovii H, 

 f. Sf T. Flor. Lid. 266. ; Flor. Brit. Lid. i, 125, not of Sohrenk. 



Distinguished from the preceding by its tliyrsoid [)auicles, its bracts 

 all linear except the lowest, not progiessively diminishing in size 

 upwards, its smaller flowers and its smaller obtuse, not acute, capsules. 



North-West Himalaya : Laka, Edgeioorth n. 5.5 ! Clarke n. 24635 ! 

 Kamaon, k^itrachey and Winterhottom n. 12 ! Duthieu. 3826! Ladak, Hay! 

 Stoliczka ! Kashmir: Zircotal, ^aZconer (Kew *D is t. n. 126)! Souamurg 

 Gammie ! Levinge {Clarke n. 27217)! Kamri valley, Duthie n. 12532 ! 

 Giles n. 659 ! Llddar Valley Duthie n. 13347 ! 13421 ! Baltistan ; Duthie 

 n. 13856 ! 



