Tas. 8027. 
MECONOPSIS «intecrironta. 
- Western China and Tibet. 
PaPAVERACER. 
MeEconopsis, Vig.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52. 
Meconopsis integrifolia, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiii. (1886), 
p. 389; Maxim. Fl. Tangut. p. 35, t. 9, ff. 7-12, t. 23, ff. 22-25, non Bulley 
in Flora & Sylva, vol. iii. (1905), p. 80 cum icone ecolorata; Gard. Ohron.. 
1904, vol. ii. p. 240 cum icone nigra; Le Jurdin, 1904, p. 328 ; inter species 
caulibus plurifloris, columna stylari nulla et forum colore insignis. 
Herba seepius robusta, monocarpica, $-3 ped. alta, primum tota pilis sericeis 
longissimis rubiginosis fulvescentibus vel albidis pleruamque vestita, 
demum pro parte glabrescens, spins 8-12-flora. Caulis validus, pluri- 
sulcatus, ramis vel pedunculis ae foliis caulinis in pseudoverticilla dis- 
positis. Folia radicalia numerosissima, confertissima, pro maxima parte 
lineari-lanceolata, usque ad pedein longa, sed seepius dimidio breviora, 
caulina similia, sursum gradatim minora, infima minora, ovato-spathulata. 
Pedunculi quam folia longiores, uniflori, pilis deflexis ornati. F/ores flavi, 
seepius 5-6 poll., interdum usque ad 10 poll., diametro, erecti, iis Peeonize 
specierum nonnullarum similes, diuturni. Sepala ovata, caducissima. 
Petala ssepius 5-10, orbiculari-obovata, plus minusve incurva. Stamina 
innumera. Capsula oblonga, 1-14 poll. longa, 5-8-costata, glabrescens, 
stigmatibus 5-8 lamelliformibus coronata, valvis totidem brevibus recurvis 
persistentibus dehiscens. Semina oblonga vel subreniformia, circiter 
lineam longa, testa conspicue reticulata.—Cathcartia integrifolia, Maxim. 
in Mél. Biol. vol. ix. p. 713. 
This striking plant was first discovered by the celebrated 
Russian traveller, Przewalski, in 1872-73, in the extreme 
north-west of the Province of Kansuh, and he subsequently 
collected it in several different localities in the same region. 
Potanin also collected it in Kansuh, in 1885. In 1887 it 
was collected by Delavay in the Snowy Range of Likiang, 
Yunnan, at an altitude of 13,000 feet; and in 1890 Mr, 
A. E. Pratt obtained very fine specimens in the neighbour- 
hood of Tachienlu. Its first appearance in European 
gardens seems to have been due to the Abbé Farges, 
who sent seeds to Mr. Maurice L. de Vilmorin in 1895, 
with whom it flowered in 1897; but it produced no seed, 
and was consequently lost to cultivation. 
In 1903 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons sent Mr. E, H. 
Wilson on a second journey to China, one of the principal 
objects being to collect seeds of Meconopsis integrifolia. 
He “found it in millions” in the mountains west of 
Aveust Isr, 1905, 
