1896.] D. Prain — So7ne additional Fvim^riacosd. 13 



geuus. Indeed Walpcrs deliberately identifies the present plant, which is Eoylo'a 

 Miicrocaj)no!f, with Dactylicapnos of Wallich, althongh Royle is careful to point out 

 that Wallich's plant is quite different from his. Sir J. D, Hooker and Dr. Thomson, 

 nnwilling to invent a new name for the Kamaon species, use Walpers' name for it, 

 retaining Wallich's for the Nepal species seeing that it was the plant which Wallich 

 originally described. Unfortunately, however, the use of Walper's name did not 

 originate with himself but with Don, who employed it, without any of the 

 blunders of Wallich or of Walpers, for the Nepal plant. This original description 

 {Prodr. Flor. Nep. 198) is indeed so meagre that it might apply to either species but 

 the fact remains that it can only apply to the Nepal one, since the Kamaon plant, 

 named D. scandens in the Flora of British India, had not then been collected, 

 and has not even yet been obtained in Nepal. And, as if this were not 

 enough, we find that in the account of the Nepal plant in Sweet's Brit. Fl. 

 Garden, Don's name Diclytra scandens of the Prodr. Flor. Nep. is expressly 

 stated to be the same as Wallich's Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia of the Tent. 

 Flor, Nep. ; this account is written by Don himself. This being the case 

 Walper's name must go to designate, as he intended that it should, the plant 

 already named by Don Diclytra scandens. The best distinctive name for the 

 Kamaon plant seems then to be that which Royle had proposed to use generically ; it 

 has accordingly been here adopted. 



4. DiCENTRA SCANDENS Walp. Eep. i. 118 (1842) — syn. Macro- 

 capnos Boyle exclus. Dicljfcra scandens D. Don, Prodr, Fl. Nep. 198 

 (1825). Corydalis scandens Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. Cur. post. 265 (J827). 

 Diclytra scandens G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 140 (1831). Dactylicapnos 

 thalictrifolia Wall Tent Fl. Nep. 51. t. 39 (1826); Gat. n. 1426/1 

 tantum (1829); G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 141 (1831); D. Don in Sweet, 

 Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. ii. t. 127 (1832). Dicentra thalictrifolia H. f. Sf T, 

 Flor. Ind. 273 (1855) ; Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 121 (1872). 



Nepal : Noakote, Wallich n. 1426/1 ! Sikkim ; very common. 

 BOOTAN ; Gri-ffith ! Khasia ; very common. Mishmi : Yen, in woods, 

 Griffith ! 



There is little doubt that this species is quite distinct from the preceding in spite 

 of their having been considered identical by Wallich. The bibliographical con- 

 fusion that has prevailed as the result of this identification has been discussed 

 above under the Kamaon species. 



