158 



ft., Delavay; Kou-la-po, 11,500 ft., Delavay; Metong'-Sahvin 

 Divide, lat. 27O-27°30'N., 14,000-15,000 ft., Forrest 469; Tali 

 llange, 11,000^13,000 ft., Forrest 1950, 1999, 13517. Western 

 Szechiian; between Batang and Ta-cliien-lu, Wilson 1364; Wa- 

 san Coiintrj, at Wen-cliTTan-hsien, 11,000-13,000 ft., Wilson 



3027. 



In 31. lancifolia we experience tlie variation in liabit already 

 discussed under M. liorridula. The gathering l)v Delavay on 

 Yen-tse-hay above Lankong {Delavay n. 2080) "and that by 

 Forrest of June, 1906, on the eastern flank of the Tali Range 

 {Forrest n. 1950) have central compound scapes only; in that 

 by Forrest of July and August, 1906, from the same locality as 

 the preceding [Forrest n. 1999) some of the specimens have, 

 m addition, one or two simple basal scapes. These July 

 and August plants, moreover, haA'e the terminal flower 5- 

 petalled. But in the case of the two gatherings of this species 

 from Szechuan we find in that collected by Wilson in July, 1904 

 [Wilson n. 3164), either that all the scapes are simple, 

 radical and 1-flowered, or that the central scape has but two 

 lateral long-pedicelled flowers on the central scape, while this 

 central scape is accompanied bv a number of basal simple ones. 

 In the gathering from Wen-chuan-hsien in the Wa-san countrv, 

 made m July, 1908 {Wilson n. 3027), three out of four specimens 

 have a central scape with only two lateral long-pedicelled flow^ers, 

 the rest of the blossoms being borne by simple, 1-flow^ered radical 

 scapes; t.he fourth specimen, however, has a several-flowered 



compound central scape u-nacconipanied by any basal 



Sim 



scapes. 



In facie s, therefore, these Szechuan specimens of M. lancifolia 

 closely resemble those of M. Hcnrici and of M. impedita, but are 

 readily distinguished from ilie former bv the very different 

 anthers and the smaller number of petals", from the latter bv 

 the entire leaves, and from both by the narrower capsules and 

 the much shorter styles, under i in. long, in M. lancifolia, over 

 i m. long m M. llennci and M. iwpedita. 



17 Meconopsis lepida, Prain; species e grege PrimuUnar.nn, 

 «onbus pedicelhs ebracteis in cymas racemiformes dispositis ad 

 M. iorrestn et M. lancifoUam proximo accedens ab ambabus 

 tamen folns latioribus glabrescentibus vel glabrls, petalis 

 S^guenda '' ''''"^'"' anthcrisciue |ilvis facillime 



,1pffl¥ ^'^""^l'- '''^^'?''- ^''"'-^^'^ dauciforme, elongatum, 

 de cendens Foha omnia radicalia vel prope basin scapi aggrc- 



irata ovato-lanccolata, apice subaeuta, basi cuneata vel sensim 

 petiomm attenuatn lr^(^-l'c,■^■nc. i'»,+^~„„ _ • -i. i. 



1-1 

 ill 



T.olKrT,V.. „f • V^ ™^r?.i^*^ integra, supra viridia, subtus 



d to Tr^ '^^^ ^^ti? Tf^ ^^^^ ^^^^ pilis adpressis perpaucis 



longus. 5capus centralis, 12-15 cm. longus, elabcr vel T)ilis 

 fnuplicibuB pntentibus vel subretrorsis n!arc; l.^^'I.J flnC 



parce veatitus, florem 



ff>rtY^^..^^«^, ti 1 r -— ^.^x^^x,^^^ jjuice veatitus, norem 



iraX 1 flof T'.^''*""' suffulciens et triente medio pkicellos 



giabn vel subpatenter hirsuti, flores laterales vix 3 cm. latos 



