160 



A reiy Iiaudsome species with deep blue-inirxjle nodding 



flowers and grej-y allow antliers, affecting open, stony pastnre- 

 land. 



19. Meconopsis Henrici, Bur. et Franeli. : Eew Bull. 1907, 

 app. 3, p. 72; Fedde, I.e., p. 259 (1909) ; Wilson, Western CKina, 

 vol. 1. pp. 138, 199, et vol. ii. p. 9 (1913). 



Western Chixa; West Szechuau; near Ta-chien-lu, 11,000- 

 14,000 ft., Soulie 523; Bon^alot; Pratt 25, 600: Wilson 3166; 

 Ton-go-lo, 12,000 ft., Wilson; Pan-lan-slian, west of Kuan- 

 lisien, 13,000-14,000 ft., Wilson 957; Ta-p'ao-slian, nortli-west 

 of Ta-cliien-lu, 12,000-15,000 ft., Wilson 3028. 



In this species again tlie tabit varies as it does in M. 



horridula among the Aculeatae and in M. lancifoUa and M. 



e.nmia among the Primulinae. The usual condition is that in 

 which, at the commencement of the flowering season, a single 

 simple scape bearing a solitary flower appears in the centre of the 

 crown; this is followed later by the elongation of a number of 

 scapes whoso buds are at first hidden among the crown-leaves in the 

 axils of which they arise. These secondary scapes in fruit become 

 nearly as long but are never quite so thick as the primarv scape. 

 Not infrequently, however, the original scape bears one or more 

 lateral ebracteate pedicels. An instance of one lateral flower 

 occurs m a specimen collected by Pratt in 1890 (Pratt n. 25) ; 

 another case of one lateral flower on the central scape occurs on 

 a specimen col ected by Wilson in June, 1904 (Wilson n. 3166). 

 In a^ot^ej- gathering by Wilson, at Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan- 

 ^'^!SA«^^l^i?^0-14,000 ft., consisting of five specimens obtained 

 m 1908, m flower m June and in fruit in August, two have one 

 lateral pedicel on the central scape, while one has four and 

 another has five lateral pedicels, the two last thus possessing 

 racemose cymes exactly as in 31. horridula, var. racemosa. 



Messr 



ime 



351^(1909)""''^''' Primulina. Prain : Pedde, I.e., p. 260, fig. 

 ^Ji^'-'^'^'l^' has not been met with since 1900. The flowers 



3.;..f A^' ^ '^ K- ^''''^'^' t^« central is earlier in 

 ih^cl^^n^ '• '^^'i ^o^^st than the rest. Sometimes only 



m.lT for^ Tu '' ^T^''^'^' '''^"^ ^^^^ Pl^^* ^^o^ely resembles a 

 prtluna^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^'''^ species, however, M. 



W of ¥ V^^ <ii«tingui,shed by its different ovarv. The 

 iiuit o± m. frimulma is still unknown. 



InsiinL ^ ' ^'"'' '""^^^ Pruanlirun scapo uni.n .lato 1-floro 



2^0 romiia^Jdi?;]?"^ ^r- ""^^''^ ^^"^"" ^^*i« subreflexis indutus. 



SI sensim 



