1896.] D. Prain — Some additional Fumariaceaa. 37 



numerous longer than stems, cauliue lowest pair opposite, upper scattered 

 passing into bracts ; flowers few racemose, bracts leafy incised ; outer 

 petals without crests, the upper with a loug incurved spur two-thirds the 

 length of lamina. 



Eastern Himalaya : Phari ; Tern-la, Dungboo ! South Tibet, King's 

 Collector ! 



Rootstock very slender, 8 in. long, scaly ; stem 4-6 in., radical leaves 8 in. (petioles 

 5 in. long) ; pinuas imbricately overlapping ultimate pinnules oblong or linear very 

 small numerous ; flowers whitish-yellow, 1 in. long. 



The rootstock is like that of G. latiflora which it also resembles in having its 

 lowest pair of stem leaves opposite. But its leaf -segments are many times more 

 numerous and smaller, its stems are stouter and, instead of giving off two leafless 

 lateral branches in the axils of a solitary pair of opposite cauline leaves each stem is 

 prolonged beyond the pair as a leafy sometimes branching stem with alternate leaves j 

 it has, too, incised in place of linear bracts and racemose in place of subumbellate 

 flowers ; these yellow, not blue, are without crests and have a long spur. 



41. (19.) CORTDALIS LATIFLORA H f. 8f T. 



42. ( — .) Corydalis pulchella Aitch. Sf Hemsl. Journ. Linn, 

 Soc. xix. 151, t. 4. ; stems rather short, erect, branching only at the base, 

 leaves glaucous, 4-6-jugately 3-pinnatisect, ultimate lobules narrowly 

 lanceolate, radical numerous almost as long as stems, cauline few scat- 

 tered ; flowers in lax racemes, pedicels shorter than the ovate large 

 pinnatisect bracts ; outer petals without crests, tbe upper with a slender 

 slightly incurved spur rather longer than the lip ; capsules linear-oblong, 

 fruiting pedicels sharply decurved, seeds 2-seriate, black, shining. C. 

 meifolia Aitch. Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 32 not of Wall. 



Afghanistan : Safed Koh range, 9-11,000 feet, Aitchison n. 201 !' 

 289 ! 789 ! Buthie's Collector ! 



Rootstock of several pliant fibrous bundles ; st ems 10 in. rather slender ; leaves- 

 6-9 in. long (petioles 4-5 in.); segments \ in. across, ultimate lobules very narrow; 

 hracts \-% in., pedicels % in. ; flowers yellow, narrow, § in. long ; capsule § in. long. 



A very distinct species, hitherto only obtained in the Kurram Valley. 



It may be noted that the name of this species dates from 1882 and is therefore- 

 much anterior to the name G. pulchella Franch. [PL Delavay. 45. t. 13 b (1889)] 

 applied to a species from Yunnan with leaves and flowers resembling those of" 

 C. nana Hoyle but with a leafless stem and a very different rootstock. A new 

 name has therefore to be provided for the Yunnan plant ; as there is already a 

 C. Franchetiana, it might be known as C. Adrieni. 



43. (35/1.) Corydalis Stracheyi D'ufhie ,- glaucous, stems pro* 

 cumbent weak branched, leaves 5-6-jugately pinnatisect, segments 

 2-4-jugately pinnatipartite, lobes 3-5-fid ultimate lobules linear to nar- 

 rowly ovate ; racemes terminal lax many-fld., lowest bracts large incised,, 

 the rest 3-fid or entire, small. C. rainosa H. f. $r T. Flor. lad. 267 j 

 Flor. Brit. hid. i. 125 not of Wall. 



