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competent was not to be lightly set aside^ and their reasons for 

 refusing to treat CoL Appleton's plant as a form of M. aculeata 

 were, in fact, incontrovertible. Eipe capsules, however, were not 

 for the moment available, so that when the plant was figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine in 1908 the writer, whilQ removing 

 it from M. aculeata^ refrained from according it the rank of a 

 species, but treated it instead as a variety of M. simiatay between 

 wLich and M. aculeata it stands, as regards foliaf^e, in an inter- 



mediate position.* Now, however, that its ripe capsules are 

 known, it is evident that M. latifolia cannot be included in 

 M, sinuata, and the only alternative is to accord it the status of 

 a species apart. 



10. Mecoiiopsis sinuata, Prain: Fedde, I.e., p. 256, fig. 35 o 

 (1909); Smith, Eec. Bot. Surv. India, vol. iv. p. 347 (1913). 



This has been collected again in Sikkim, at Changu, 13,000 ft., 

 Smith n. 3147, but has not yet found its way into European 

 gardens. 



_11. Meconopsis speciosa, Prain in Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. 



). 258, t. 2 (1907); Forrest in Gard. Chron. 



XXlll 



1911, vol, 1. p. 51. 



met 



China by Mr. F. K. Ward, whose specimens {Ward n. 817) 



communicated bv Mr 



G. Forrest, who has collected it again on the M 



Divide in Yunnan, in 1914 {Forrest n. 13,240). It ha? not yet 

 flowered in European gardens, nor has it been taken up in the 



Pflanzenreich. 



12. Meconopsis Prattii, Prain in Bot. Mag. sub t. 8568 

 [nomen] (1914) et in Bot, Masr. t. 8619 ri915^: si^ftnies e p-reire 



conjuncta, sed foliis sutintegris petalis numerosloribus cap- 

 sulaqiie oblonga nee longe obconica facillime sejimgenda. 



Herha armata, monocarpica, biennis. Rhizoma anguste 

 dauciforme, elougatum. Caulis evolutus, simplex, 3-5-7-5 dm. 

 altus. Folia radicalia basaliaque late lauceolata, apice acuta, 



subinteerra 



basm paucidentata, supra pallide viridia, subtus etiam pallidiora, 

 utrmque aculeis pungentibus obsita, 10-15 cm. ionga, 2-5-3 cm. 

 lata; petiolus 6-8 cm. longus. j^olia caulina basalibus similia 

 sed gradatim minora, 6-14 cm. Ionga, 2-2-5 cm. lata, petiolis 

 gi-adatim brevioribus aummis bracteis proximis subobsoletis. 



etiam 



3-4 cm., rarissime 10 cm 



aculeati, summis exceptis bracteati ; bracteae foliis conformes nisi 

 mmores, sessiles. Sefola 2, cblongo-ovata, extra aculeata. Petala 

 b-», oblonga, obtusa, 2-25-2-5 cm. Ionga, -clare coerulea vel pur- 



Even in this 



ifol 



arerouna/a^^ ^^"^^^^ between the lobes of the leaf 

 are rounded, ^vhereas m M. latl o in. tlio aU.»o«« « .. 



