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bractes tow ards the lower part of the raceme, where the flowers are remote, differ from 
the rest in being lobed. The plant comes certainly near to C. nbirica (Gmelin, flor. 
sibir. 4. 05. t. 33.) as has been justly remarked by the above-mentioned author. I am 
not quite certain if the specimens which I have received from Kamaon, and which 
were gathered by Mr. Robert Blinkwork, do not belong to a distinct species. I have 
quoted, with much hesitation, Cory dal? 8 decumhens , which is Thimberg’s (not Lin- 
neds’s) Pumaria bulbosa , not having seen the no\ i commentarii acad. imper. Petro- 
politame, vol. 12. in which there is a description and figure of the plant. 
CORYDALIS JUNCEA, Wall. TAB. 42, fig. dextra. 
Radice . . . ; caule ereeto, simplicissimo, integerrimo, di- triphyllo ; foliis li- 
neari-lanceolatis, integerrimis; racemo elongato ; siliquis pedunculum subsequantibus. 
Incolit rnpes ad Gossain Than Himaleyse. Floret et fructus producit Augusto. 
Radicem hand observare licuit, Caulis (scapus?) simplicissimus, erectus, teres, 
striatus, basi pennam anserinam vix crass us, sursum attenuntus, pedalis, bi- usque ad 
tripedalis, iuanis, uti coeterie partes laevis. Folia (an fjracteee censenda l radicalia 
nulla observavi ;) remotissima, see pi us duo, vix nunquam ultra tria, lineari-lanceolata, 
acuta, basi attenuata, sessilia, integerrima, lineata, ad lucem visa nervis pluribus, 
capillaribus, parallelis instructa, pollicaria, sesquipollicaria, plana, erecto-patentia. 
Racemus terminalis, erectus, cylindricus, attenuatus, rnultillorus, spithamaeus vel 
dodrantalis, /loribus (fig, 1. 2.) flavis, fauce purpureis, nutautibus, undique sparsis, 
superioribus approximates, inferioribus sensim remotioribus. Fedunculi unguicu- 
lares, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis tertio longiores, fructiferi §-pollicares. Calcar 
cylindricum, obtusum. Siliqua (fig. 3.) deflexa, oblonga, compressa. tetra-ad pen- 
tasperma, semipolliearis, pedunculum subajquans, coronata stylo persistente. Semina 
atra, nitida. 
Observation. 
A very remarkable and distinct species. 1 have not seen the root of it; nor have 
I observed any radical leaves among tTie numerous specimens, which were brought 
to me from Gossain Than, w hile I was in Nipal. I am therefore unable to decide 
whether to attribute a stem or scapus to the plant. The flowers are middling sized, 
crowded at the top of the raceme, but becoming remote downwards. 
Besides the plants of this family, which l have described above, I possess three 
others, which are natives of India. I here subjoin some remarks on them. 
Cory da Hi diphylla , Wall. Radice . . . Caule brevi, simplicissimo, vel ramulo 
unico axillari instrilcto, raedib bifolio: foliis oppositis, petiolatis, triternatis, segmentis 
cuneatis, obtusis, inciso-bilobis vel integris; bracteis lineari-oblongis, cuspidatis, ma- 
jusculis, pedieellum floriferutn superantibus, fructiferum a»quantibus. 
I have not seen the root or radical leaves of this little plant, which is about eight 
inches high, and grows on the mountains about Serinagur, whence Mr. Blinkworth 
sent me many specimens. The stem is very slender, scarcely thicker than a crow 
quill, rarely sending forth a short, raceme-bearing branch, which is furnished with a 
pair of less compound leaves. Petiols two, opposite, spreading; thrice three-sected, 
slender; partial ones equal, about an inch and a half or two inches long; the 
exterior divisions extremely short, or entirely wanting, so that the leaflets appear 
more or less sessile. Leaflets cuneate, obtuse, glaucous, tapering downwards, half an 
inch to eight lines long, entire, or furnished with a lateral, oblong lobe. Flowers slen¬ 
der, yellowish, an inch long, pointing to one side, from six to ten, forming an oblong 
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