266 FLOBA INDICA. [Futnariacea. 



Guge, Sir. et Wint. ! Kunawar, Jacquemont ! Ladak ! Zanskar ! — (Fl. 

 Jul.) (m. d.) 



Serba pamila, sicca flaccida, spitlamaea. Radix crassa, elongata, bitriceps, su- 

 perue vaginis angustis foliorum delapsorum longe vaginata. Folia lineari-oblonga, 

 lamina Ij— 3-poUicari, petiolo elongato, vaginis elongatis sulcatis nitidis pallidis. Pin- 

 na V. pinnula breviter petiolatEC, magnitudine variae, ^— f poll, longee, varie lobatae 

 V. sectse. Sacemus brevis ; pedicellia breviusculis. Sepala squamseformia, lacera. 

 Flores f -pollicares, sulphurei, petalis dorso fusco-brunneo viridique Tariegatis. Calcar 

 apiee pauUo dilatatum v. subacutum. Feiala exteriora cariaata v. ala lata membra- 

 nacea cristata. Ovarium immatuxum lineari-ellipticum, stylo eequilongum, pendulum, 

 glaucum, i poll, longum. Semina pauca, testa leevi, ariUo parvo. 



** Caule ramoso folioso (rarius in C. Moorcroftiana e< Gortschakovii 

 simplici) ; racemo stspius diviso. 



13. C. Moorcroftiana (Wall. Cat. 1432 !) ; erecta, robusta, glauca, 

 superne glanduloso-puberula v. pulverea, foliis radicalibus plurimis bi- 

 tripinnatiseotis, pinnis pinnatifidis, pinnulis varie incisis, racemo inter- 

 dum basi diviso densiiioro, bracteis lanoeolatis integenimis lobatisve, 

 petalis exterioribus obtusis apice late alatis. — G. Griffitbsii, Boiss. Diag. 

 ser. ii. 14 ? 



Hab. In Himalaya et Tibetia occidentali, alt. 10-17,000 ped. : 

 Guge, Str. et Wint. ! Kunawar, Munro ! Piti ! Ladak, Moorcroft ! Nubra ! 

 Pangong, H. StracJtey ! Afghanistan, Griffith ! — (El. Aug.) (r. w.) 



Seria plerumque elata, variabilis, plus minusve minute glanduloso-puberula ; va- 

 rietates parvffi scaposffi, scapo apbyUo, ad sectionem posteriorem pertinent. Radix 

 crassa, fusiformis, bi-multiceps, crassitie poUicis et ultra, vaginis nitidis sulcatis snb- 

 membranaceis petiolorum vetustorum sajpe coronata. Folia radicalia perplurima, 

 carnosa, spitbamEea v. pedalia, pinnatisecta, pinnis primariis distantibus approxima- 

 tisve, petiolulatis, late ovatis, profunde pinnatifidis bipinuatisectisve, folia caulina 

 minora sparsa. Facemus simplex v. plerumque basi divisus, densua, multiilorus. 

 Bractece (superiores saltern) lineares, integerrimse, acutse, glandulosse, inferiores v. 

 omnes pinnatifido-lobatsE. Flores speciosi, sulphurei, f poU. longi. Sepala mi- 

 nima, lacera. Fetala exteriora apice late alata, ala autice seepius producta. Siliquts 

 lineari-eUipticEe, i-pollicares. Semina reniformia, aterrima, testa nitida Crustacea, mi- 

 uutissime punctulata, arillo parvo bilobo. 



A very handsome species, peculiar to the dry climates of the "Western Himalaya, 

 Tibet, and Afghanistan. The whole plant is covered with a minute glandular pubes- 

 cence ; but this is only visible with a lens in Strachey and Wiuterbottom's Guge 

 specimens, which have more glaucous racemes. Small states have simple, scape-Uke, 

 leafless stems, a span high, whilst typical ones have tall branching stems. It is very 

 nearly allied to C. Gortschakovii, of which it may be a form, but in that plant the 

 bracts are pinnatisect, and it is never glandular. 



Boissier's C. Griffithsii we have referred to this, though it is not the n. 1419 of 

 Griffith in Leman's Herbarium ; the name would claim priority (that oi Moorcroftiana 

 not being published) were we certain of the identity, but no allusion is made by Bois- 

 sier to the glandular pubescence, which is evident in Griffith's specimens, and the 

 name should further have been Griffithii. 



14. C. Gortschakovii (Sohrenk. En. Plant. Nov. 100); erecta, 

 robusta, ramosa (rarius simplex), foliosa, glauca, radice crassa, foliis 

 radicalibus ampUs pinnatisectis bi-tri-pinnatisectisve, pinnis primariis 

 petiolulatis, segmentis ovatis varie sectis lobulis acutis, racemis densifloris, 



