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2. MECONOFSZS, Yiguier. 



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Perennial herbs; juice yellow. Leaves entire orlobed. Flowers sohts^ry 

 or racemed, large, blue yellow or purple. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Ovary 

 1-celled; style distinct, stigraatic lobes radiating on its clubbed extremity. 

 Capsule ovoid or elongate, with short valves below the persistent style,_ 

 Seeds many, small, rugose.— Distrib. Mountains of the N. hemisphere; 

 species about 10. 



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1. M. simplicifolia, ff. f. & T. Fl Ind. 252 ; softly hairy, leaves lan- 

 ceolate entire or few-toothed. Hookf. Ill Him. PL t. 8. Papaver simpu- 

 cifolium, Don Prodr. 196; ]ValL Cat. 8125. 



SuBALPiNE Himalaya, Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft., iT./. .■ 



Boot Bto-ut, fusiform ; neck villous. Leaves many, 2-3 in., tapering into a petiole. 

 Scapes stout, clothed with deflexed hairs. Mowers 2-3 in. diam., blue-purple. Sep<u8 

 hismd. Ovary cylindric ; style \ in., stigmas 5-8. Capsule 2 in., linear-oblong, covered 

 with deciduous hairs. 



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2. M. horrldula, //. / iSc T. Fl Ind. 252 ; prickly, leaves lanceolab 

 subentire. 



SiKKIM-HlMALAYA, alt. 14-17,000 ft., H,f. 



Stem Oj or short. Leaves 3-5 in., obtuse or acute. Scopes 4-8 in., many,^ ng'y' 

 erect, densely prickly. Flowers 1\ in. diam., blue-purple. Sepals bristly. Cap^ 

 J-l in., prickly, obovate or oblong; style \ in., stigma conical. — Possibly a stale of /»• 

 aculeata. In abnormal flowers the petals are sometimes many and linear. 



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Steins leafy. Flowers racemed or panicled. 



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M. aculeata, Royle III 67, t. 15 ; prickly, leaves irregularly pinn*- 

 tifid, flowers bhie-purple, capsules short prickly and bristly. WdL y^^- 

 8122 ; //./. & T. Fl Ind. 253 ; Hook Bot. Mag. t. 5456. M. Gul. Walde- 

 mani, Klotzsch Reis. Pr. Wold. t. 36. 



Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon; alt. 11-15,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., smooth, except the short scattered prickles. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong or 

 lanceolate, long-petioled ; canline sessile. Flowers 2-3 in. diam. ; pedicels slender; 

 prickly in fruit. Captule 4-§ in., densely prickly, obconic-obovate or oblong; ^^y 

 half as long. 



4. M. robusta, //./ <!• T. Fl Ind. 253 ; rfaucous, sparsely hairy, leav^ 

 pinnatifid, capsule liuear-oblong 7-8-valved clothed with spreading bristles. 

 Wall Cat. 8121,8124. 



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Temperate Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft. ; from Nipal, TTaZZicA, to Kumaon. / ,. 



Sttm 4-6 ft. Leaves 8-14 in., pinnate, lobes pinnatifid, long-petioled, cauline sessjW. 

 Flowers 2-3 in. diam., colour nnkuown, in subracemose panicles; pedicels 3-^ ^^P^ 

 densely clothed with reflexed bristles under the flower, elongating in fruit. S^P^^ 

 bristly. Capsule l\ in., densely bristly, at length glabrous; style slender. " '" 



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By roadsides and in fields throughout India. ; 



■~ A robust herb, sometimes half-woody bJow, 2-4 ft., with spreading branches.^ Leaves^ 

 3-7 in. Flowers 1-3 in. diam. Sepals horned at the top. Capsule |-li in. long, 

 terete, usually bristly, elliptic or oblong. 







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