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2. (f^lh 4.) CoRYDALis PERSICA Cham. 8f Schhcht., Linnsea i. 567 ; 

 leaves opposite sessile or short petioled twice ternately cnt ; spur 

 not infundibuliform, obtuse recurved and slightly incurved at tip. 

 Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 127. C. Griffithsii Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2. i. 15. C. 

 Griffithii Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 127 ; Aitchison, Journ, Linn. Soc. xix. 

 151. Corydalis sp. Griff. Ic. PL As. t. 658, f. 2. 



North-West Himalaya : Ziarat Valley, 7,000 feet, Gatacre ! Kurrara 

 Vally, Aitchison! Duthie's Collectors! Distrib. Afghanistan; Northern 

 Persia. 



Near the preceding species, but hardly, as Aitchison suggests, the same. Here 

 the leaves as in C. rutaefolia may either be sessile or shortly petioled but even if 

 petioled they are easily distingaished from the leaves of C. diphylla by having the 

 primary petiolules longer than the petioles. The flowers too are quite different, the 

 differences being not at all badly shown even in the indifferent reproductions of 

 Griffith's drawing. 



Mr, Boissier has himself expressed the belief that his own G. Griffithii does 

 not differ sufficiently from G. persica. Dr. Kegel has gone further and has identified 

 G. persica with G. verticillnris DC; had this been justifiable then M. de Candolle's, 

 as being the older name, is the one that siiould have been used. But it seems 

 better in the mean time to keep C verticillaris, which has flowers with straight 

 spurs, moi-e like those of G. rutaefolia proper, apart from G. persica. The specimens 

 from Turkestan refei'red to G. persica by Dr. Regel (Act. Hort Petrop. viii. 694 t. 16) 

 have flowers with broad, explanate lips to the outer petals, in this way differing 

 rather markedly from all tlie remaining opposite-leaved members of this section. 

 Among the material of the genus kindly lent the writer for study by Dr. Batalion 

 from the Imperial Herbarium, St. Petersburg, is one specimen which shows that 

 originally Dr. Regel had thought of separating the broad-lipped plant under the 

 name G. darwasica Regel ; this tiame the writer proposes to sustain. The figure 

 given by Dr. Regel does not show clearly the character of the lips. 



3. ( — .) CoRYDALLS cyktocentra Frain; leaves opposite, sessile, 

 twice ternately cut, petiolules very long ; spur very long, not infundibuli- 

 form much recurved throughout, erect from the base and overarching 

 the lamina of its lip ; inner petals projeciing beyond outer. 



North- We ST Himalaya : Chitral, Younghushand ! 



Habit of C. Ledehouriana and the other seasile-leaved members of this group. 

 Flowers 1 in. long, twice as large as in the two preceding species, spur not incurved 

 at tip. Bracts large ovate entire, longer than the pedicels. 



This very closely approaches C tnacrocentra Regel, from which however it differs 

 in having smaller leaves, entire bracts, shorter pedicels, purple or pink, not yellow 

 flowers, and ovules more numerous and in 2-rows. The spur of G. macrocentra is 

 moreover at first straight and horizontal as in G. Sewerzovii, not erect from the base 

 as in this species. As regards leaves and bracts it more resembles C . Sewerzovii ; 

 more closely still does it approach C. Ledehouriana, of which it may ultimately prove 

 to be an extreme large-flowered form. The spur in G. Ledehouriana is however in 

 most cases very different, having usually an incurved tip, and being generally some- 

 what inflated ; there are how^ever some specimens of G. Ledehouriana from Tur- 



