Tas. 4668. 
MECONOPSIS Watticuit. 
Dr. Wallich’s Meconopsis. 
Nat. Ord. PAPAVERACE®.—PoLyaNDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Petala 4. Stamina numerosa. Stylus levis. Stiymata 4—6, ra- 
diantia, convexa, libera. Capsula obovata, 1-locularis, valvulis 4-6 apice de- 
hiscens, placentis tenuibus vix intus in membranulas angustas productis.—Herbee 
perennes, succo flavescente facta. De Cand. 
. 
Mzconopsts Wallichii ; elata, tota herba subglaucescens pilis longis rufescentibus 
patentissimis setosa, foliis radicalibus petiolatis pinnatis apicem versus pin= 
natifidis pinnis lobisque ovato-oblongis inciso-sinuatis, caulinis oblongis 
sinuato-pinnatifidis sessilibus, floribus amplis nutantibus in racemum elon- 
gatum foliosum inferne compositum dispositis, corollis cerulescentibus, 
ovario elliptico dense appresse ferrugineo-setoso, stylo terete longitudine 
ovarii. ay 
Meconorsts. Wail. Cat. n. 8123. B. 
A very handsome species of Meconopsis, detected in Sikkim- 
Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, who sent seeds to the Royal Gardens, 
which produced flowering plants in June, 1852. It is assuredly 
no described species, though agreeing in some respects with M.? 
Nepalensis, De Cand. (Papaver paniculatum ot Don), which has 
yellow flowers, and a “globose capsule, as large as a garden 
cherry.” It quite accords with an unnamed “ Meconopsis, 
n. 8123, 8.” of Wallich’s Catalogue, from “ Kamaon ?” Dr. 
Hooker has another and apparently distinct species in his Her- 
barium, with much longer, yellow flowers, and a much more 
compound raceme, or panicle. ; 
—Descr. The plant, with us, grown in pots in a frame, attains — 
a height of two and a half to three feet : the whole herb is pale 
subglaucous green, everywhere hispid, with long spreading fer- 
ruginose sete. Radical leaves large, petiolate, lyrato-pinnate, 
or pinnate below and pinnatifid above, the pinne and lobes 
SEPTEMBER 1 st, 1852. 
