Cortusa.'] lxxxtii. PKiMULACEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 501 



3. CORTVSA, Linn. 



Scapiger»us perennial pubescent herbs. Leaves long-petioled, rounded- 

 cordate, 7-9-lobed. Scape slender. Flowers umbelled, purple. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 6-lobed. Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, tube short ; throat 

 naked ; lobes 6, oblong, obtuse. Anthers. 5, subaessile at the base of the corolla, 

 sagittate, connivent, acute. Style filiform, exserted. Capsule ovoid, 6-valved, 

 many-seeded.— DisTEiB. Species 1 or 2 : natives of Mid-Europe, N. Asia and 

 the N.W. Himalaya. 



C. mattliloll, Linn. ; DC. Frodr. viii. 56 ; ReicKb. le. Fl. Germ. 1. 1081 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 987. 



Kashmik and Lahui,, alt. 7-90OO ft., Jacquemont, Falconer, &c. — Distrib. Aff- 

 ghanistan, Alps of Europe, N. Asia. 



Leaves membranous, 1-4: in. diatn. ; lobes shallow, crenate-tootfaed ; petiole 4-6 in. 

 Scapes much taller than the petioles. Umbels 6-10-fld. ; pedicels slender, very 

 unequal ; invol. bracts i- J in., lanceolate. Calyx small, lobes ovate. Corolla ^-f in, 

 diam,, cleft to the middle. 



4. BRirOCARPUnX, Hook.f. 8f Thoirn. 



A scapigerous glabrous herb. Leaves ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse, sub- 

 Crenate, with scattered orbicular scales beneath ; petiole winged. Scapes 

 slender, 1-fld. Flower nodding, yellow. Calyx of 7 subulate-lanceolate divi- 

 sions. CoroUa between funnel- and bell-shaped, 7-lobed to the middle, throat 

 naked, lobes 2-fid. Stamens 7, filaments short; anthers oblong, acuminate. 

 Ovary narrowly oblong, scaly ; style slender ; placenta columnar. Capsule 

 elongate-cylindric, many-seeded, the top with the style falling away. 



B. ttintalalcum, Hook.f. 8^ Thorns, in Kew Jaum. Bot. ix. 199, t. 5. 



SiKKrsc Himalaya; in pine woods at Lachen, alt. 8-10,000, J. D. H. 



Bootstock stout. Leaves i-3 in. long, coriaceous ; petiole about as long. Scapes 

 1-3, much longer than the leaves, very slender. Corolla f in. long, twice as long as 

 the calyx. Capsule 2-2^ in. long, erect, very membranous. Seeds (young) orbicular. 



5. I.VSXIM:ACKXA, LAnn. 



Erect procumbent or creeping herbs. Leaves quite entire, opposite alternate 

 or whorled. Flowers solitary racemed or spi'jate. Calyx 6-6-partite. Corolla 

 rotate or funnel-shaped, S-S-partite. Stamens inserted on the base of the 

 corolla-lobes. Ovary subglobose ; style filiform, persistent, ovules many. 

 Capsule globose or subglobose, 5-valved or bursting irregularly, many-seeded. 

 Seeds trigonous or plano-convex. — Species about 60 ; chiefly N. temperate. 



A. Flowers white or pale pink. Corolla funnel-shaped •, segments obovate- 

 spathulate. Filaments quite free from one another at the base. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite. 



* Fhiiers in elongate terminal racemes; pedicels longer than the linear or 

 subulate bracts. 



t Stamens longer than the corolla. 



1. J,. 3[iesclxenaultll, Buby in DC. Prodr. viii. 61 ; Mem. Prim. t. 4 j. 



