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possible. 



some 



constitute the group Chclidonifoliae, have been reported from 

 China. The peculiaritj of these two species is that as regards 

 root, stem, leaves, and all parts of the flower save the pistil, the 

 two plants are not merely similar, but identical. Yet the pistil of 

 one is globose and has a style with a clavate stigma like that of 

 M camhrica, while the other has a long cvlindric pistil with no 

 st7le, hut has a depressed sessile stigma like that of Catlicartia 

 villosa. The stigmatic character in this group therefore possesses 

 no greater value than the dehiscence character ' ^ - 



other groups. 



The objection to the use of either the dehiscence character or 

 the stigmatic one singly does not preclude the simultaneous use 

 o± the two. There is no species of Meconopsis with a stigma like 

 tliat o± tathcartm villosa, in which the valves of the capsule 

 become separated from the placental ribs beyond the point at 

 which these ribs began to converge to the base of the style! It is, 

 thereiore still easy to keep up the genus Cathcarfm for the 

 original type C mllosa. One practical advantage which attends 

 tUe adoption of this course, rather than the acceptance of the sug- 

 gestion made in i^ePflanzerireich, is that it leaves unchanged a 

 name which is famihar m European gardens. But the knowledge 



^ , ., ./ — ^te material communicated since 1909 



makes It necessarv to modify somewhat the statement of the 

 characters of the genus Meconopsis. 



MECONOPSIS, yz> Sepals 2. Petals 4, or 5-9. Stamens 

 usually oo, several-seriate, rarely under 20 and few-seriate. 

 SUgma usually ^6-lobed rarely 2-3-lobed, terminal on a dis- 

 wUh ?1 °^^^«\o^^.^ly obsolete style, usually capitate or clavate 

 with dccurrent almost or quite contiguous ravs less often 



cXr::strf ''^'''''''l "^'T'^'^ -y« - *^- -PP- margins of 

 WW f™'"""'/.! ^"'^'.^^^ ^^^^^""^ "^«id or oWong opening 

 \l!^rZW "VL^^'\^^''^'?^ the Valves from the converging 

 .n theTlrV^^ the placental ribs, less often narrow-cylindric 

 fi om t Tr*T'' ^1^ ^^^ ^^^-"^^ separating in part or entirely 



Jarh n^ ^^^ '^''^■' ''.'^''^K monocarpic and biennial, very 

 ^a^f »?„r"" '^'-'f^'^e^Polycarpic or perennial. Leaves 

 o heZZ/fl' •' ^f -^^1^^^' ^'r "^'"^ ^^^^^ ''' dissected, glabrous 

 tTm^nlnt n ^"^'^^^^^/^ ^^«^>^^ or setae or nricklL 



wILTo'^^1'1 H^''^^ species-two East Himalayan and one 



transferred from 



Cathcartin fn M«.. • ""^^^^", '^"'"™-t«5?« now transferred frc 



Wesfern CM^lt .^^^f ^5"^^^, three East Himalayan, and nine 

 vvtstcrn Lhmese--has taken place s nee 1906 Two of these 



species were described in 1907 • the rPTr,niT.;r.i T' ? -u ? 



below. ' remaining eleven are described 



aew species does not affect tli 

 tvi 



viz ffwm^cnrin^;/. r V- V A V" sections proposed in 190b', 



aie beset wUhsS.T ^'^^'\*^^ P^«^?*«' if not wholly glabrous, 

 beset ^ith simple hairs, setae or prickles; and Polykaetia, the 



