[Oroum Gopyriijht Raserved 



ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW". 



BULLETIN 



Oh 



MISCELLANEOUS INFOMATIOiY 



^o. 



[1915 



XVIL— SOME ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF 



MECONOPSIS. 



(With Plates.) 



^ In lSli4 tlie writer had to undertake the task of arranging the 

 material of the natural family Papaveraceae communicated by 

 various collectors to the herharium at Calcutta subsequent to the 

 revision of the Indian species published by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 1872.* This material included several previously^ uncharacter- 

 ised forms of Uecono-psis., one of which is so distinctive that it was 

 possible to provide a description at once.f In the case of the 

 others, relationship with various described species was manifest; 

 the publication of these was therefore deferred till they could be 

 compared vc\t\\ certain types in other herbaria^ notably Kew and 

 Paris. While in Paris'^ in 1895 the writer received much help 

 from the late Mr. l^ranchet, who, with great kindness,^ deferred 

 the work on which lie wa.^ engaged, in order that he might take 



part in a critical comparison of the Himalayan with the Ohinese 

 species of this genus. The results of this study, were published in 



1896.: 



Ten years later the writer was asked to prepare a digest, in- 

 tended primarily for the information of cultivators, of the known 

 species. This digest was issued in 1906. § It had hardly 

 appeared before its incompleteness was demonstrated by the com- 

 munication of material of a new form from South- Western 

 China, which was published in 1907.1! Later In the same year it 

 was necessary to describe yet another new species If from the same 



general area. 



* FloraofBHtishlmlia, vol. 1. pp. 116-119. 



t Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. Ixui. part 2, p. 82 



X Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. Ixiv. part 2, pp. 309-321. 



§ Annals of Botany, vol. XX. pp. 323-367. . .„ ., f -c^- t, , 



If Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 



vol. xxiii. p. 258. • 



•[ Kew Bulletin, 1P07, p. 316. 



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