Tap. 8223: 
MECONOPSIS stnuata, var. LATIFOLIA. 
Himalaya. 
PAPAVERACEAE. Tribe EUPAPAVEREAE, 
Meconopsis, Vig.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52; Prantl & Kiindig 
in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. 2, p. 141. 
Meconopsis (§ Eumeconopsis) sinuata, Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. vol. xiv. 
2,p. 314; Ann. Koy. Bot. Gard, Calcutta, vol. ix. 1, p. 5, t. 6; dan. Bot. 
vol. xx. p. 347; species a M. aculeata, Royle, foliis minus lobatis capsulaque 
obeonica recedens; var. latifolia, Prain; a forma typica foliis latioribus 
capsulaque breviore differt. 
Herba ut videtur monocarpica; caulis simplex, scapiformis, 0-35-1°2 m. altus, 
sparse aculeatus. Folia radicalia evanida; caulina alterna, utrinque parce 
aculeis simplicibus induta, lineari-oblonga vel lanceolata, vel (var. /atifolia) 
oblonga, apice obtusa, basi cuneata, margine irregulariter lobata sinuatave, 
lobis integris, supra vViridia, subtus glaucescentia; lamina 10-18 cm. longa, 
2-3 em. vel (var. lutifolia) 3-5 em. lata; petioli inferiores 4-6 cm. longi, 
gradatim breviores, summi bracteis proximi subobsoleti. Flores in cymas 
racemiformes dispositi; pedicelli 2-6 cm. longi, aculeati, fere omnes 
bracteati; bracteae foliis conformes sed minores sessilesque. Sepala 2, 
ovata, 1°5 cm. longa, extra parce aculeata. Petala 4, coerulea, ovato- 
rotundata, saepe subcuspidata, 3 cm. longa, 2°75 cm. lata. Stamina 
indefinita, pluriseriata; filamenta glabra, discreta, intense coerulea; 
antherae oblongae, luteae. Ovarium e carpellis 4 compositum, ovoideum, 
5-7 mm. longum, densius aculeatum; stylus glaber, 3 mm. longus; stigma 
coloratum, saepius puniceum, nonnunquam aurantiacum, Capsula obconica, 
3-3°5 em., vel (var. latifolia) 2°5-2°75 em. tantum longa. 5 
Meconopsis sinuata, not known in gardens, and rare in 
Alpine Sikkim and Bhutan at 10-12,000 ft., is closely allied 
to M. aculeata, Royle (B. M. t. 5456), the North-west 
Himalayan prickly “Blue Poppy,” but has narrower, slightly- 
lobed leaves and longer capsules, widest above the middle. 
The plant here figured, whose introduction we owe to 
Lt.-Col. H. Appleton, is rare in Northern Kashmir at 
10—14,000 ft., where it had previously only been met with 
by Falconer in 1838, by Winterbottom in 1847, and by 
Clarke in 1876. Its leaves are as wide as in M. aculeata, 
but as slightly lobed as in M. sinuata; its flowers differ 
from those of M. aculeata in having a narrower, more 
prickly ovary, and a deep pink or bright orange instead of 
NovemBeEr, 1908. 
