cokydams longipes. 
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plures, cespitosi, striati, erecti, teretes, basi simplices nudique, petiolis interspersi 
emarcidis folioruoi radicaliura; supernd divisi in ramulos plures, simplices, approxi 
inatos, paniculatos. Folia alterua, circumscriptione oblonga, supradecomposita, g a- 
berrima; pinna* alternates, inferipres remotiuscuhe ; segments ultima capillaceo- 
setacoa, teretia, trilinearia ad unguicularia. Radicalia plura palmaria, petio os su catos, 
basi dilatatos sequantia ; caulina brevius petiolata ; sunmia subsessilia.' Racemi teimi 
nales, breves, laxiusculi, ovati, obtusi, sessiles, bipollicares, basi loliosi, stipe rue ractcis 
instructi (fig. 2.) foliaceis, setaceo-decompositis. Flores (fig. 1. 3.) magni, llavi, longe 
pedunculati, nutates; inferiores ex axillis foliorum supremorum, peduncuhs instruct! 
bipollicaribus; superiores pedunculis pollicaribus suffulti. Sepala reniformia, laci- 
niato denticulata. Limbus clausus, purpureus; galea carind dorsali lata, per dimi- 
dium calcaris conici, obtusi decurrente; petala lateralia carina dorsali angustiore. 
Filamenta basi dilatata, apice subulata, bi- vel triantherifera. Stigma quadratum , 
subsaoittatum, margine inferiore concavo, nervo intermedio conspicuo, utrinque diviso 
in ramos duos, parallelos, arcuatos. Siliqua (fig. 4.) cuneata, compressa, longe-pedun- 
culata, stylo coronata, tetra- ad hexasperma. Semina atra, lucida. 
Observation. 
It is impossible to confound this remarkable species with any other. The leaves 
are many times subdivided, and resemble at first sight those of Meum athamanticum ; 
but their ultimate segments are distinct, and not verticillate, as in that plant, and almost 
setaceous. The flowers are large and beautiful, of a yellow color, with purple summits, 
resembling those of Corydalis nobilis, but without its delicious fragrance, on long 
peduncles, the lowermost axillary from the terminal leaves, the rest supported by 
decompound, large and foliaceous bractes; the whole forming a broad, ovate, somewhat 
loose raceme, which terminates the stem and branches. 
CORYDALIS LONGIPES, De Cand. TAB. 4 2, fig. sinistra. 
Radice ramosd; caule procumbente, velerecto, gracillimo ; foliis tri-ternatis, lobis 
obovatis, subincisis, obtusis; bracteis inferioribus incisis ; siliquis lineari-cuneatis, 
pedunculos subsequantibus. 
Futnaria bulbosa , Thunb. jap. 277 (hand Liimci) ? 
Corydalis deeumbens , Pers. Enchirid. ii. p. 269? 
Corydalis longipes , De C-and. prodr. i. 128. 
Legi in Sheopore versus cacumen ; etiam habui e Gossain Than et e Kamaon. 
Floret Julio. 
Radix gracilis, perpendicularis, ramosa. Caulis leviter angulosus, tenuis, diffuse 
ramosus, basi procumbens, inde erectus, pedalis, nunc elongatus bipedalis, uti tota 
plant a glaucescens, pallidus, lsevis. Folia triternata, segmentis longius petiolatis; lobis 
obovatis, obtusis cum cuspidula, bilobis vel integris, deorsum attenuatis, unguicula- 
ribus vel pollicaribus; radicalia longius petiolata; petioli omnes teneres, graciles. 
Racemi terminales, pollicares, post florationem parum elongati. Flores (fig. 1. 2.) se- 
cundi, flavi, pedicellis bracteas lanceolatas, inferiores subincisas excedentibus. Sepala 
reniformia, ciliato-fimbriata. Siliquce (fig. 3.) lineari-cuneatae, compress*, stylo 
brevi terminate, nutantes, unguiculares, pedicellos ^equates, nunc distinctius cuneata? 
iisdcm parum breviores. Semina plura, minuta, atra, lucida. 
Observation. 
I have slightly modified the diagnosis of this plant, and of C. chcerophylla , given 
by Professor De Candolle, in his admirable prodromus systematis naturalis regui 
vegetabilis. In the present species, the capsule varies from linear-cuneate, to almost 
obovate-cuneate, sometimes equalling the pedicels, at others shorter than these. The 
