12 D. Prain — Some add{t{o7ial¥ am?iriQ,cese. [No. 1, 



In habit, the Himalayan Diccntras differ widely from all the North Asian and 

 North American forms ; in this respect they agree with the American plant known 

 as Adlumia cirrhosa, which, differing as it does from Dicenfra only in having its 4 

 petals united, scarcely deserves generic rank. 



1. DiCENTRA TORULOSA H. f. Sf T., Flor. Ind. 272 (1855) ; Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. i. 121 (1872). Khasia ; Griffith! Mann! Collett ! Burma; 

 ISiynelB,, Ariderson ! Distrib. Yunnan (Delavay !) 



M. Franchet has shown the writer Chinese specimens of this species recently 

 received at Herb. Paris. 



2. DiCENTRA RoYLEi H. f. Sf T., Flor. Ind. 273 (1855) ; Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. i. 121 (1872). Corydalis scandens Frmich. Bull, Soc. Bot. Fr, 

 xxxiii. 391 (1886) ; PI. Delavay. U (1889) nee Spreng. 



Kamaon : Simla, Lady Balhoiisie ! Mussoorie Boyle ! Falconer ! 

 Dippi, 8,000 ft. Brandis 3272! Bootan : Griffith! Khasia : Griffith! 

 Robertson! Distrib. Yunnan {Delavay !) 



This is the second of the scandent gronp of Dicentras characteristic of the 

 Himalayan region that extends to Soutb-west China. M. Franchet in referring 

 the whole genus Dicentra to Corydalis adopts a coui-se with which the writer is 

 much inclined to agree, but which in a paper like the present it is not advisable to 

 follow. The step is only a reversion to the view advocated by Sprengel. By a 

 lapsus calami the specific name of another North-west Himalayan plant has been 

 given in the Plantae Delavayauae ; Delavay's specimens show that the Yunnan plant 

 is D. Moylei. 



3. DiCENTRA Macrocapnos Prain. Dicentra scandens H. f. 8f T. 

 Flor. Ind. 273 (1855); Gen. PI. i. 55 (1862); Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 121 

 (J872) nee Walp. Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia Wall. Cat. n. J 426/2 

 tantum (1829) 7ieqiiaquam Tent. Flor. Nepal. Macrocapnos Boyle ex 

 Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. ii. 439 (1836) ; Boyle III. 68 (1839). 



GrARHWAL : Edgeworth ! above Kinoli, Buthie n. 3820 ! above Grliat, 

 7-8,000 ft. Diti/w'e n. 3821 ! Kamaon : Dwaraliat and Sobah, Saharan- 

 pur Collectors ! near Kaladoongi, etc., Davidson ! Blinkiuorth (Wall. Cat. 

 n. 1426/2)! Boyle! 



Nepal is also given as a locality for this species both in Flor. Ind. and Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. This is the result of Dr. Wallich having, in the distribution of the E. i. C. Her- 

 barium, mixed specimens of this species sent him by Blinkworth, with his own 

 Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia from Nepal. But though Wallich erred in his identifi- 

 cation he did not issue Blinkworth's plant as a Nepalese one, the original tickets 

 as well as the lithographed catalogne alike indicate carefully that Blinkworth's 

 plant (which is Wallich's n. 1426/2) came from Kamaon. Wallich's n. 1426/1, which 

 he himself collected in Nepal, is not a mixture of two species ; it is his own Dacty- 

 licapnos thalictrifolia and is the only Dicentra that he obtained in Nepal. The 

 Wallichian error was pointed out by Eoyle (III. 68) in 1839, but his remarks were 

 unfortunately ignored by Walpers [Repert. i. 118) when in 1842 he revised the 



