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Spec. Crar. ‘Annual, 1-2 feat high : leaves much divided, 
linear, channelled: sepals minute: fruit. slightly pointed: flowers 
very small, pale rose-coloured, tipped with dark-purple. 
_ Neilgherries. Deccan. Flowering in the cold weather. 
GENUS I. CORYDALIS. 
Wiadelphia Hexandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Korydalos, a lark, because the spur of the flower 
resembles the spur of that bird. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 2, deciduous: petals 4, the front ones 
smooth or concave, posterior ones gibbous or spurred at the base, 
two lateral inner ones slightly agreeing with the front ones: the 
posterior staminal column. increased by a spur-shaped process: 
ovules many: stigma 2-lobed: capsules siliquose, 2-valved: seeds 
lenticular, rostellate, with fleshy aril or none: 
(1) C. Srprnica. (Pers.) 
Ident. Pers. I. p. 76.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 268. 
—Dec. prod. I. p. 128. 
Syn. C. impatiens, Dec. 1. ¢c.—-C. longipes, Dee. J. e.—C. fili« 
formis, Royle. Mil. 65. 
Engrav. Wall. tent. flor. Nep. t. 42. 
Spec. Cuan. Herbaceous, diffuse: stem divaricately btanched : 
leaves long-petioled, variously cut: segments broad-linear, or cune- 
ate-obovate, 3—5-cleft: lobes obtuse or apiculated, quite entire or 
2-3-crenated: bracts lobate or cut: spur slowly or abruptly ascend- 
ing, with a short or. elongated appendage: sili¢les natrow-linear, 
with shining seeds. 
Khasia hills, flowering in June and July. 
GENUS Ill. DICENTRA. 
Diadelphia Hexandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Dis, double, and Kentron, a spur. 
Gen. Guar. Sepals 2, deciduous: petals 4, free, saccate or 
spurred at the base: filaments free or distinct at the base, cohering 
above: the staminal column increased at the base by a spur-shaped 
process: ovules several: stigma 2-lobed : capsules siliquose or bace 
cate: valves linear, membranaceous, or ovate and fleshy, 
