151 



Westkrn China : Yuinxan ; Likiang Range at Sui-clien, 

 Delavay; Mekong-Salwin Divide, 14,000 ft., Forrest 13233. 

 Western Szecliuan; mountains nortli of Mupine, 12,000-13,000 



51; Pan-lan-shan, west of Knan-lisien, 14,000 ft., 



ft., 



Wilson 951a. 



same ^^^ 



petals, from sky blue to bine sufinsed with pink or purple and 

 to j)ale purple, tliat is occasionally met with in M. aculeata and 

 i>s so common a feature in M, Prattii. The relationship wliich 

 M. rudis bears to M. Prattii has already been discussed. Its 

 closest Qifinity, however, is with M. Iiorridula, of which it was 

 treated as a variety in 1896. In M. Iiorridula the petals are 

 usually of a deep dark blue colour, but even of that species it 

 has been noted in the field that pale blue ilowers occur. In both 

 M, rudis and M, horridvla the anthers are deep yellow, and 



most 



g in M 



stem 



of the low^er stem-pedicels bracteate, is accompanied, in all the 

 wild S23ecimens seen, by a number of simple, 1-flowered, radical 



scapes 



Mr 



lane if 



burgh Herbarium, which suggests that he may have seen 3f. 

 rudis on the Mekong-Salwin Divide between Lat. 27^ and 27° 

 30' N in July or August, 1905; he has, indeed, ^'mce then, col- 

 lected the species there. There is, however, no specimen with 

 that note, and there is some ground for diouhi owing to the 

 fact that the plant referred to by Forrest occurs at about 9000 ft. 

 elevation — as low down as M. aculeata, var. na7ia comes in the 

 Panjab Himalaya, As we have not, from Western China, speci- 

 mens of any member of the groups Acideatae and Privmlinae 

 from so low an elevatioti as 0000 ft., it is not impossible that we 

 may expect an as yet unknoAvn species of Meconopsis from this 



re*^ion# 



Tlie same seems to be even more probable -nitli regard to tlie 



Eastern Himalaya. During the Tsang-po Expedition of Captain 

 Bailey and Captain ^forsliead, Hie first-named officer collected, 

 on 18 September, 191-3, at Potrang, 14,200 ft., a locality near 

 the Po-la, 91^ 58' W, 2T° 55' Jf, flowers of a Meconopsis belonging 

 to tlie series of species of tlie Actdcatae gronp in wbicli tlie 

 flowers are 6-8-petaIous. M the same time, -this form Las tlie 

 short subcapitate stigma characteristic of the series of species, 

 within the same group, in which the flowers are normally 4- 

 petalous. It further appears to liave simple 1-flowered scapes 

 as in the " typical " condition oi M. horridvJa. No leaves were 

 collected. Except as regards the stigma, it comes nearest to 

 M. speci'osa and 31. rudis, and for the moment it may best be 

 reo-arded as a variety of the latter species. 



var, intermedia, Prain; iorma scapis ut videtur more M. 

 Jiorridiilac simplicibus floribizs nisi stigmate more 3/. sinuatae 



ac 



memoriara reducens. 



