.€drdamine.] x. crucifkr^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 139 



9. C. Griffithll, ff. f. & T. Journ. Lmn. 8oc. v. 146 ; perennial, erect, 

 leaflets sessile entire or sinuate, lowest pair at the base of the petiole, 

 flowers large deep lilac. Griff. I tin. Notes, 188. n. 996. 



Wet places near Lamu in Bhotan, Griffith. 



Bootstock creeping ; stem 1 ft., angled and grooved. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, ovato 

 oblong or rounded. — The specimens have no flowers, but Griffitb has recorded their size 

 and colour. f 



10. C. ele^antula, H.f. & T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 146; very small, 

 annual, branched, leaflets linear-oblong in 5-7 remote pairs, flowers white 

 or rose, pods filiform. Hutchinsia sp., Qriff. It. Notes, 195, n. 1079. 



Wet rooks Chuka in Bhotan, alt. 6500 ft., Griffith. 



Pale green, tender. Stem 2-3 in., slender. Leaves glabrous, pinnate ; leaflets petio- 

 lulate, small, fleshy, linear-oblong, sublobed angled or quite entire. Racemes 

 lengthened, 2-9-flowered. Petals white or rose, broadly clawed, thrice as long as the 

 small glabrous sepals. Fods | in., narrow-linear, on very slender, filiform, spreading 

 or drooping pedicels ; style short, a little narrower than the pods. 



11. C. macropbylla, WiM. Sp- PI. iii. 484 ; stout, erect, perennial, 

 leaflets ovate or lanceolate crenate-lobed or pinnatifid, flowers large white 

 or deep violet, pods with very thick margins. DC. Prodr i. 152 ; H.f. •& T. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. y. 145. C. polyphylla, Bon Prodr. Fl. Nep. 201. Dentaria 

 dasyloba, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. xxx. n. 103. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from Sikeim to Kashmik. — Disteib. N. Asia, 

 Japan. 



Leafy, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; rootstock creeping ; stem simple, herbaceous, 

 1-24 f'-i smooth, striated. Leaves all pinnate ; leaflets 4-3 in., 3-6 pairs, acuminate 

 or obtuse. Racemes erect, many-flowered. Fods \-^\ in., erect, tapering at both ends ; 

 Talves smooth, flat ; style J in., rigid. 



Vab. 1. dentaricefolia ; lateral leaflets lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenateor serrate 

 obtuse, flowers large white or violet, pods ^-1^ in. — C. macrophjlla, Led. Fl. Ross. i. 

 128. — From Kumaon to Kashmir. 



Vae. 2. foliosa ,' lateral leaflets narrow-lanceolate acuminate subpinnatifid, flowers 

 white, pods I-I4 in. pale coloured. — C. foliosa. Wall. Cat. 4779. — Kumaon and Kashmir. 

 The smallest state of the species. 



Vak. 3. lobata; leaflets ovate-lanceolate irregularly and coarsely lobed or cut, lobes 

 obtuse, flowers and pods as in var. foliosa, but the plant larger. — Kashmir, 6000 ft. ; 

 Western Tibet, 13,000 ft. 



Var. 4. sikkimensis; tall and coarse, leaflets ovate-lanceolate obtusely serrate, 

 flower large deep violet, pods large and broad 1|- in. long pale brown. — Inner ranges 

 of Sikkim, 7000-13,000 ft. (The Lepchas use the leaves and young stems of this 

 variety as a pot-herb.J 



1 9. IiOXOSTEMON, H. f. & T., 



A diminutive tender annual, with a few petiolate, usually 3-foliolate, 

 leaves. Flowers small, corymbose, lilac. Sepals spreading, equal at the 

 base. Petals broadly j^spathulate, clawed. Filaments of the long stamens 

 thickened at the tip and recurved. Pod linear ; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. 



Closely allied to Cardmnine, but in the absence' of ripe fru i « place cannot be 

 determined with certainty. 



1. Xi. pulcbellus, H.f. <fc T. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 14-, 



Sikkim, in moist grassy places, alt. 10-13,000 ft., S. f. 



Stem slender, flliform, flexuons, glabrous, springing from a mass of toothed root- 

 •bulbils. Leaves generally 3-foliolate, rarely in 2 pairs ; leaflets subsessile, linear, entire, 

 apiculate. Corymb 3-6-flowered. 



