28 D. Prain — Some additional Fumariacese. [No. 1 T 



10,000 ft. Gamble n. 22 ! Jongri, Anderson 366 ! 369 ! Gammie ! King's 

 Collectors! Lachung, Hooker (the Sikkim "sibirica" of Herb. Ind. Or.) ! 

 Gammie n. 372 ! Kapoop and Cho-le-la, King's Collectors ! Cliumbi; very 

 common, King's Collectors ! Phari ; Bungboo n. 4544? ! Distrib. S. Tibet 

 (Lama Ujyen Gyatsko n. 344). 



Stems weak, much branched, leafy. Leaves membranous. Flowers yellow £ in. 

 long ; posticous petal shorter than the slender spur. Capsule varying from \ in- 

 iu Chumbi, Sikkim and Nepal specimens to \ in. in Kashmirand^'Kamaon ones ; the 

 style 2-lobed. 



This and the next species, taken together, constitute- the Corydalis sibirica of 

 Indian authors. The only character which this plant has in common with C. sibirica- 

 is its 2-lobed stigma; it differs in habit, foliage, floral structure and fruit. The seeds 

 though similar are a little smaller. In habit it almost exactly repeats the 

 characters of the next species (G. longipes) which has flowers extremely like those 

 of G. sibirica; the double confusion resulting from the union first of C. Casimiriana 

 and 0. longipes because they are identical in habit though totally different iu 

 flower and fruit, and again of C. longipes and C. sibirica because, while of different 

 habit, their flowers and fruits are identical, has led to the belief that G. sibirica is a 

 very variable species. The examination of specimens of C. sibirica collected by 

 Turczaninow near Lake Baikal and elsewhere, and at the river Kolyma by Aucms- 

 tinowicz, leads me to doubt whether the genuine- C. sibirica is a variable species. 

 And the careful analysis of flowers and examination of fruits from 28 different 

 gatherings of G. Casimiriana and from 31 different gatherings of G. longipes shows- 

 that neither of these is in the least degree variable, at all events in tie direction of 

 passing into each other. An apparent exception to this is a solitary gathering from 

 Chumbi which, with flowers exceedingly like these of G. Casimiriana, has unripe 

 capsules like these of C. longipes. But the evidence that we have in this plant an 

 intermediate between C. Casimiria.na and G. longipes is far from complete. Its- 

 flowers instead of being intermediate in form between those of the other two have a 

 spur with an exaggerated curvature. The stigma too differs from that in either G. 

 Casimiriana or C. longipes and resembles that of C. tongolensis Franchet from 

 Szechuen, another nearly related bat nevertheless quite distinct species. 



21. (sub 16.) Corydalis longipesDO. Prodr. i. 128; sub-glaucous, 

 much branched, slender, leaves long-petioled equally twice ternate, 

 segments 3-5, ovate deeply cut, racemes las few-fid. terminating long 

 slender branches, bracts small all cut into narrow lobes ; outer petals 

 crested, the lower pouched at base, the upper with stout or sleuder 

 straight or slightly recurved spur ; capsule oval, seeds 2-seriate. Wall. 

 Tent. Flor. Nep. 53 in part and excluding fig. ; Cat. n. 1433 in part. 

 C. sibirica Maxim. Flor. Tan gut. 51 as to spp. from Kamaon and Khasia. 

 C. filiformis Boyle, III. 68. 



Himalaya : Garhwal, near Mussoorie, Royle ! King ! Kamaon, 

 Ralam, Strachey and Winterbottom ! Nepal : Wallich (mixed with preced- 

 ing and with C. diphylla) ! Sikkim : Tongloo, Thomson! Anderson m. 364 I 

 365 ! King ! Gamble n. 8426 ! Saudakpho, Gamble n. 3903 ! King's 

 Collectors ! Jongri, common, King's Collectors ! Singalelah, Kurz F 



