i^'] IX. FUMARIACEiE. 127 



many-flowered dense, lower bracts leafy pectinate, capsules oblong. BG 

 Prodr. i. 128 i H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 271. C. Hoffmeisteri, Khtzsch in Pr. Wald 

 M&m, t. 35. 



Himalaya, .alt. 12-15,000 ft,, from Sikkim to Kunawiir. 



Bootstock stout, branched. Stems 6-18 in., simple or branched. Leaves very many 

 4-8 m., oblong, segments crowded acuminate. Flowers J-f in., yellow, tips purple ' 

 racemes 1-2 m. ; lower pedicels often elongate. Posticous petal obtuse, dorsal wing 

 broad, twice as long as the obtuse spur. Capsules J in., pedicel curved. Seeds 4-6 

 summg. 



tt Leaves simply pinnate or trisect. 



22. C.flabellata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. S'oc. xx. 30; glaucous, stem 

 erect rigid much-branched, leaves pinnate, pinnae 4-6 pair flabelliform, 

 racemes strict panicled dense-flowered, bracts very small, capsules linear. 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 271. 



. West Tibet and Tibetan Himalaya, alt. 9-12,000 ft., from Kumaon, Edgeworth, 

 to Gilgit, Winterhottom. 



Stem 2-3 ft., striate. Leaves &-% m,.; pinnse distant,-4-14in. diam. , crenate or lobed. 

 JPlowere 4-| in., yellow, curved, racemes 2-6 in. long; pedicels very short. Posticovs 

 petal obtuse, cnoullate, twice as long as the decurved inflated spur. Capsule 4-1 in., 

 spreading or deflexed ; style slender. Seeds 8-10, dotted, shining. 



• 23. C. adiantifolia, H.f. d; T. Fl. Ind. 271 ; glaufcous, stems many- 

 branched, leaves pinnate, pinnse 2-6 pair orbicular or reniform, racemes 

 terminal dense many-flowered, bracts subulate exceeding the buds, cap- 

 sules linear. 



Westekk Tibet; Zanskar (not Kishtwar as in Fl. Ind.), alt. 12-14,000 ft., T. T. 



Bootstock stout, woody, crowned with withered sheaths. Stems 6-18 in., branched 

 from the base. Leaves 3-6 in., linear-oblong ; pinnae remote, 4-| in. diam., entire cre- 

 nate or 3-5-lobed, base cuneate or cordate. Flowers |-1 in., yellow, tips brown : 

 racemes 1-8 in. ; pedicels very short. Sepals membranous, long-subulate, base lacerate! 

 Posticous petal nearly straight, slender, abruptly acuminate, much longer than the in- 

 flated obtuse incurved spur. Capsule i in., acuminate at both ends ; style straight. 



Very near C. flabellat-a, but smaller, pinnse often cordate, and bracts setaceous like soft 

 hairs. 



24. C. crassifolla, Royle III. 69 ; glaucous, stem simple, leaves thick 

 reniform 3-5-lobed or -partite, racemes terminal dense-flowered simple or 

 branched, bracts leafy obovate-lanceolate or spathulate entire, capsules 

 subglobose inflated. H.f. <& T. Fl. Ind. S61. C. crassissima, Gamhess. in 

 J acq. Voy. Bot. 12, t. 11 ; Thorns, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 17, 'and iv. t. 9. 

 C. pnysocarpa, Gamhess. I.e. t. 12. 



West Tibet and Tibetan Himalaya, alt. 14-17,000 ft, from Kunawur to Balti. 



Bootstock prostrate, woody. Stem 3-8 in. Radical leaves few, 2-5 in. diam,, early 

 withering, almost fleshy, long-petioled ; lobes crenate or again lobed, with petioled 

 lobulate or palmati-partite (rarely pinnate) segments ; cauliue 1-3, subsessile. Flowers 

 f-lj in., white or yellowish, variegated with piirple, racemes 1-3 in. long. Posticous 

 petal bjoad, obtuse, wingless, equalling the cyliudrio incurved spur. Capsule 1 in. diam. ; 

 style short, persistent. 



4. rVIKCARXA, Linn. 



Annual, rarely perennial, herbs, usually branched, often scandent. Leaves 

 much divided, segments very narrow. Flowers small, white, rose-coloured 

 or purplish, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Sepals, petals and stamens 

 ,Qf Corydalis. Ovary 1-celled.; style filiform, stigma entire or shortly lobed; 



