40 D. Prain — Some additional Fumariacese. [No. 1, 



[PL David, i. 30 t. 8] is, Mr. Maximowicz thinks, only a variety of this species ; 



the two plants certainly are very closely allied. 



Mr. Maximowiez has also reduced to his G. adunca the form named C. Scheles- 

 noiviana by Dr. Regel. So far as the rather meagre examples in London and Paris 



went, the writer was prepared to accept the reduction. But Dr. Batalin having kindly 

 lent him for stady many excellent specimens of Dr. Hegel's species, the writer h;is 

 been able to ascertain that Mr. Maximowicz's redaction cannot be sustained and has 

 found on the contrary that the true C. Schelesnowiana is identical with a plant 

 collected in Gilgit by Dr. Giles that has been issued, erroneously, from Herb. Cal- 

 cutta, as C. adiantifolia. 



49. (22.) CORYDALIS FLABELLATA Edgeworth. 



The true C. flabellnfa, i.e., the species of this group with flabellate leaves and 

 very minute bracts, extends to Kashgar, where it was collected by Bellew. The 

 only recent gathering the writer has seen is one made by Heyde in Pangi in 1879. 



50. (23.) Corydalis adiantifolia H. f. 8f T. C. flabellata 

 Maxim. Flor. Tangut. 47, via Edgeiv. 



It is now considered doubtful whether this form, which resembles in foliage 

 the preceding and only differs in having subulate bracts exceeding the bnds, can be 

 separated as a species from C. flabellata. Mr. Clarke has collected in the Karakoram 

 (Clarke n. 30115 !) specimens that are exactly identical with the Zanskar speci- 

 mens of Dr. Thomson on which 0. adiantifolia was founded ; these specimens 

 have been issued by Mr. Clarke as G. flabellata and Mr. Maximowicz (loc. cit.) has 

 expressed his agreement with Mr. Clarke's identification. In Herb. Calcutta, too, 

 Mr. Kurz, Mr. Brace and others have always identified C. adiantifolia with C. flabel- 

 lata with the result that when G. Schelesnowiana was first reported it was assumed to 

 be G. adiantifolin and issued under that name. Eecently Capt. Hunter- Weston, R. E., 

 has again obtained the long-bracted plant of Zanskar and the Karakoram at 

 Chorbat in Baltistan and there is, in Herb., Saharanpur, a note by Dr. Stapf on one. 

 These Baltistan sheets indicating the very close affinity of the plant to C. flabellata. 



"Near as the two species are, however, and advisable as their reduction may be 

 from a monographer's point of view, the writer cannot agree with Mr. Clarke, Mr. 

 Maximowicz and Dr. Stapf. The two plants differ very markedly in the points 

 indicated by Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Thomson ; if intermediates exist they have 

 not yet been reported, and till they come to hand he prefers to regard C. adiantifolia 

 H. f . & T. as a distinct species. 



51. ( — .) Corydalis Schelesnowiana Regel §* Selimalh., PL 

 Fedtsch. 4 ; glabrous, very glaucous, stems stoutish erect rigid much 

 branched; radical and lower cauline leaves very long petioled 2-pinnati- 

 sect lobes 3-4- jugate, ultimate segments 2-3-fid cuneate at base, lobules 

 obovate-obtuse ; racemes simple, or slightly branched near base, terminat- 

 ing stem and branches, laxly many-fid. ; bracts subulate rather shorter 

 than the rigid pedicels ; capsules linear, seeds 1-seriate. 



North-West Himalaya : Gilgit; Mastuj, 8,000 feet, in damp soil, 

 Giles n. 99 ! Distfib. Turkestan. 



Eootstock stout ; stems 18-24 in. ; leaves thick, lower petioles 4-6 in. segments 

 1 in. long. | in. across ; central raceme 6-8 in. lateral 3-6 in. ; bracts flaccid, pedicels 



