140 



perfectstameu, wliicli arose from the receptacle outside tlie point 

 of origin of one of tlie petals forming the outer pair of the inner 



series. 



ptLered at Makra, Kagan, at 13,000 ft., by collectors 

 by the Saharanpur Botanic Garden. It has not, how 



Hitherto, in passages dealing with this species, Kashmir has 

 been given as its westmost limit of distribution. It is now known 

 that it extends further west into Hazara, where it has been 



s employed 



..ever been 



met with west of the Indus Valley, and it has now to be remarked 

 that it does not extend to the north of the mountains of Kashmir 

 proper. It would appear from the Pfianzenreich that there is in 

 tlie herbarium at Berlin a specimen of M. acuJcata distributed 

 from Keu- m 1864 as No. 117 Herb. Falconer, which was eollected 

 m (xarhwal. No specimen of M. aculeata brought to Saharanpur 

 trom Garhwal by Dr. Falconer's native collectors has been re- 

 tained m the herbarium at Kow; all the specimens there included 

 under the Kew distribution number 117 were collected either on 

 tiie mountains that surround the valley of Kashmir or in the 

 passes to the north of and outside Kashmir proper. They reprc- 



f^o/ 1 ,^o r'o^ original field numbers in Herb. Falconer: — 

 1-384; 1418/2; 3015/2; 3039; 3191/2. All the Kashmir speci- 

 mens in question belong to typical M. aculeata, lloyle; none 

 ot fhose from the passes to the nortli of Kashmir belong to M. 



i'ooQ f ""i . -^^''^ ^^'^'^ ^"^ ''^^^^^"^^ ^1^« latter belong is one that until 

 IJUbiuul been consistently included in Royle's species, to which 

 It IS indeed closely allied but from which it is better kept distinct. 



9. Meconopsis latifolia, Train; species M. sinuatae, Prain, el 

 Ji. aculeatae, lloyle,_quam maxime accedens; ab hac foliis hand 

 pmnatisectis stigmatisque colore ab ilia foliis margine incisis nee 

 siniiatis capsulaque breviore facillime distinguenda 



//c;.6« armata. Caulis evolutus, simplex, 1-1-25 cm. altus. 

 toha radicaha ambitu ovato-oblonga vel oWonga, apice obtusa, 

 bu.i cuneata, margine grosse inciso-crenata vSl iniiso-serrata, 



^oTJ.l'^ «^^Pf .,^'^"di'^' s^^ttus glaucescentia, utrinquc 

 aculeis pungentibus obsita, 15-18 cm. longa,4-5 cm. lata; petiolus 



Jj^' l''^P'''' Z"^'"' T'^''''' basalibus similia sed gradatim 

 b it' ^^^\^"^-/°.^g«' 3-4 cm. lata, petiolis gradatim breviori- 

 bus summis biacteis _ proximis subobsoletis. "^ Flares in cymas 



Wr^T' t''^T^-' ' P'*^^'^"^ 2-6 cm. longi, aculeati, 

 ^-^cteati; bracteae foliis conformes nisi minores, sessiles. SepaU 



sienr\nLf -5 T'^T'' '"''f^^^^- ^^^«?« 4, ovato-rotundata, 

 S/f ^ ^'t* •' ^ .'™- ^T^^^' 2-''^ c°i- lata, Clare coerulea. 

 rfnlX T\^ I^^^^^^-s^^iata, filamentis intense coeruleis discretis 

 ovoirein. 'i T-"" ''^^^^^^' O^^^^'^m e caipellis 4 composituni, 

 tU8 sttT.;. nn •;%l''"^fT.*'^'^' '^"^^^^^ ^^'^^'tum; stylus elonga- 

 ca AIS.-'^-^^T .^' clecurrentibus contiguis purpureis vel 

 Sus W; ok gl?f ntae mtrusae ; ovula plurima. ^ ^«7..k7^^ 



C Iron S ' ; r '^ """^ • }^''-^ —^^ ' ^""'«^. ^^'^^'^^^ in Gard. 



am; f i, 0^ '"1? '"^ ^?^- ^%' *.• ^-^2 ^190S) ; Kew Bull. 1909, 

 xM p 91 fi'o. ^- oT^'^'^'t.^^;^*^^ ^^ Gard. Chron. 1909, roL 



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