157 



antliers, wliicli bears a considerable superficial resemblance to tlie 

 condition of tlie Tibetan yellow-anthered M. horridula in wLich 

 the flowers are borne on a central compound scape, is widely 

 distributed in Kansu. So strikino^ in some cases is tLp 



resem 



blunce between tliese very different species that in so authoritative 

 a work as the P flanzenreich the two appear to have been confused, 

 while a careful observer in one English garden has mistaken the 

 one for the other. 



Therefore until a specimen of the orig-inal plant from Chobsen, 

 on which M. racemosa was based, can be studied afresh in the 

 light of the knowledge of the genus acquired since 1876, or until 

 specimens of the plant figured as M, racemosa in 1889 have been 

 communicated from the Province of Kansu, some doubt must 

 remain as to the incidence of the name used by Maximowicz, 

 Should it be found that, after all, the specimens on which 3/. 

 racemosa was based in 1876 belong to the species with grey 

 anthers and with the capsule figured by Dr. Pedde, the name M. 

 racemosa, in familar use among cultivators of Meconopsisj will 

 acquire a new significance. The employment of the name in 

 gardens will cease io be superfluous as it is at present, but, unless 

 the example of Mr. T. Smith in the Gardeners^ Chroiiicle for 

 1909 be followed, will be erroneous. 



6. PniMULTNAE, Prain, l.c, p. 349; Fedde, I.e., p. 259 (sect.), 

 15. Meconopsis Forrestii, Prain, Kew Bull. 1907, p. 316; 



Forrest in Gard. Chron. 1911, vol, 1. p. 51. Capsula (anno 1907 

 ignota) anguste cylindracea, paree setosa, 3-5 cm. louga, 5 mm. 

 lata, pedicellis rigidis 3-4 mm. longis demum erectis et ad cnulem 



stricte adpressis suffultae. 



South- WrsTEKK China: Yunnan; eastern flank of the Li- 



kianff Range, 10,000-11,000 ft., Forrest 2314; mountains in 



the north-east of the Yang-tse bend, Forrest 10799; Chuug-tien 

 Plateau, 12,000-13,000 ft., Forrest 12507, 12672, 



The first gathering of this species was made in June, 1906, in 

 a locality 27^12'N. The field-note with the specimens {Forrest 

 2314) describes it as a plant 6-15 in. high, with pale blue flowers, 

 the filaments of a deeper shade, and the anthers blue; in the 

 actual specimens, however, the anthers are orange-yellow. The 

 second gathering was made in August, 1913, in a locality 

 27^45'N. The field-note with the specimens, which are in fruit, 

 describes the plant as 12-24 in. high, Mr. Forrest has met with 

 this species twice since, during his 1914 journey. The chaiige of 

 position of the pedicels, which in flower are spreading or even 

 somewhat reflexed, to the erect virgately adpressed one assumed 

 when the capsules are ripe, is very striking. In all of the gather- 

 ings of if/. Forrestii there is only a central compound scape. In 

 this species only two of the four placentae are markedly intruded, 

 the other two are almost nerviform. 



16. Meconopsis lancifolia, Franch. : Fedde, l.c, p. 259, fig. 



35 p (1909). 



Western China: Yunnan; Yen-tse-hay, 10,500 ft., Dchvay 



2080; Fang-yang-chang, 10,500 ft., Delaivy; Tsang-chan, 13,000 



